CV
I’m a passionate data journalist and visual editor with a background in Economics, Banking and Risk Analysis.
Work Experience
Sep. 2020 - Today
Freelancer
Sep. 2016 - Sep. 2020
DATUM Magazine (www.datum.at)
Editor/Journalist
Produced a monthly data visualisation column for DATUM, a print magazine on politics, economics and society
Regularly supported DATUM journalists with data analyses and visualisations
Tutored interns from university journalism programmes on a monthly basis
Jan. 2017 - Jan. 2018
Erste Stiftung (www.Erstestiftung.org)
Editor/Journalist
Created monthly data visualisations supporting articles on civil rights, politics, economics and society
2012 - 2016
Erste Group Bank AG
Country Analyst
Published research papers on economic affairs, industries and policy
Developed and managed macroeconomic, fiscal and financial databases for modelling and research analyses
Chaired in-house economist roundtables and spoke at university guest lectures
2010 - 2012
Erste Group Bank AG
Market Risk Analyst
Coordinated and implemented market risk components of regulatory stress testing and capital adequacy exercises under Basel II by the European Banking Authority
Conceptualised, developed and implemented probabilistic, historical and macro-based stress testing models
Developed a model for market risks of the hedge fund portfolio
Education
2005 - 2009
University of Glasgow, UK
MA in Economics (with Honours)
Focus:
- Development Economics
- International Trade
- Economic History
- Monetary Policy
2010 - 2011
Erste Group Bank AG
Graduate Trainee Programme
Gained interdisciplinary knowledge of banking group operations through international job rotations and classrooms in Central & Eastern Europe (CEE)
Skills
Fluent Languages
English
German
Serbo-Croatian
IT Skills
Documents and Presentation
Adobe InDesign
MS Powerpoint
MS Word
Data Science & Languages
Bloomberg Terminal
CSS
Excel
HTML
R
Reuters Eikon
SQL Query
Visual Basic
Data Visualisation
Gephi
Power BI
Tableau
Graphics
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop