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Dr Chakriya Bowman began her career as a computer systems engineer before returning to university to complete a PhD in finance. Her work on international finance and derivatives markets has taken her throughout the East Asian region, where she has completed research for a number of international financial institutions. She has worked for organisations including Boeing and the International Monetary Fund, and is a Visiting Fellow in the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University. She currently works on Asia economic analysis and trade policy at AusAID.
Her areas of expertise can best be described as International Finance, Financial Engineering and Monetary Economics. She has a mathematical focus, working with time series, econometric techniques and modelling. Her prior publications include the excitingly titled "Cross-hedging Emerging Market Currencies During Periods of Structural Change" and "Forecasting Commodity Prices: Futures versus Judgement".
She recently held an AusAID postdoctoral fellowship with the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University, undertaking research on the economy of Papua New Guinea. She is also actively involved in the establishment of the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (http://www.eaber.org), part of a broader Asian economic integration initiative sponsored by the Ministry of Finance (Japan), AusAID and the Australian Treasury that aims to bring policy makers and researchers together in "Track 2" meetings to advance Asian economic integration. This work has sent her to most of the countries in Asia, including China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Japan.
In August she returned to AusAID as the Program Manager, Economic Analysis and Trade Policy for Asia Regional Section. This research and policy role allows her to continue her work on foreign investment, business and export market development in Papua New Guinea and East Asia, and she continues to work on academic finance and futures markets. She speaks Vietnamese, French and German with a moderate degree of difficulty, and teaches Econometrics Techniques (graduate) in her spare time.
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