Thilo Klein Dipl.-Hdl, M.Phil.

Resume
Contact University of Cambridge e-mail: tk375@cam.ac.uk k
Corpus Christi College phone: +44 (0) 786 706 2523
Cambridge CB2 1RH, UK web: http://klein.co.uk
Current
Position
Cambridge Judge Business School, UK
Ph.D. Candidate and ESRC Scholar Oct 2010 present
Education University of Cambridge, UK
Ph.D. in Economics & Policy (expected: July 2014) Oct 2010 present
Dissertation title: Stable Matching in Microcredit: Implications for Market Design & Econo-
metric Analysis
M.Phil. in Management Science & Operations Oct 2009 Jul 2010
Grade: 77%, Distinction with highest grade in the cohort. Courses cover stochastic pro-
cesses, optimisation, information economics, game theory, and econometrics.
Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Studies in Business and Economics (Erasmus programme) Sep 2006 Jan 2007
Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Germany
Diploma in Business Education (Diplom Handelslehrer) Sep 2004 Apr 2009
Grade: 1.5, top 6% of class. M.Sc. equiv. state examination for teaching secondary Eco-
nomics and Mathematics. Facultative majors in Statistics (1.5) and Economic Theory (1.3).
Selected
Publications
Does Anti-diversication Pay? Identifying Competing Models of Joint-liability Lending
with Exogenous Variation from Endogenous Matching, Mimeo.
Cambridge CORE Doctoral Conference, Best Paper Award 2011
Why Do Indias Urban Poor Choose to Go Private? Health Policy Simulations in Slums
of Hyderabad, Stuttgart: Ibidem publishers, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8382-0238-9 .
Cambridge CORE Doctoral Conference, Best Paper Award 2010
University Meets Micronance Award 2010
SAS Institute prize for Excellence in Econometric Analysis 2010
Micronance 2.0 Group Formation & Repayment Performance in Online Lending Plat-
forms, Stuttgart: Ibidem publishers, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8382-0118-4 .
University Meets Micronance Award 2009
Work in
Progress
Does School Choice Explain Test-score Inequalities? How Selective School Admission Sys-
tems Aect Sorting and Learning
Professional
Experience
International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Consultant, Small Enterprises Unit Mar 2013 May 2013
Co-development of a global tracking system for the ILOs agship entrepreneurship training
programme with more than 4.5 million trainees worldwide.
Carlo-Schmid-Fellow, Small Enterprises Unit Sep 2012 Feb 2013
Design and analysis of (quasi-)experimental impact evaluations of entrepreneurship training
programmes. Implementation of an online collaboration platform on results measurement.
Alexandria Business Association, Alexandria, Egypt
Consultant May 2010 Feb 2011
Randomized impact evaluation of the credit bureau for the Egyptian micronance sector.
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Thilo Klein Dipl.-Hdl, M.Phil. Resume
Professional
Experience
(Contd)
PlaNet Finance, Paris, France
Statistical Consultant Dec 2009 Jul 2010
Statistical consultant for PlaNIS, the department of PlaNet Finance that advises interna-
tional funds in nancing micronance institutions. Validation of PlaNIS risk methodology.
Spandana Financial Services Ltd., Hyderabad, India
Statistical Analyst Jun 2009 Sep 2009
Implementation of a credit scoring system for Indias second largest micronance institution.
Design and evaluation of Discrete Choice Experiments for maternity care in urban slums.
Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany
Commercial apprenticeship Oct 2002 Jul 2004
Apprenticeship in four departments of the chemical and pharmaceutical company.
Teaching
Experience
University of Cambridge: Lecturer (Oct 2013 present) for graduate-level Game Theory
and the Replication Lab ; Lecturer (Oct 2011 Apr 2012) and Teaching associate (Oct
2010 Apr 2011) for graduate-level Quantitative Research Methods and Econometrics
; Lecturer (Jul 2011) for Cambridge Real Estate & Finance Seminar ; Supervisor (Oct
2009 June 2010) for undergraduate courses in Economics and Econometrics.
Eberhard-Karls-Universitat T ubingen: Lecturer (Mar 2014) for Seminar in Develop-
ment Economics: Credit, Savings & Insurance.
Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena: Tutor for Statistics (Summer Semester 2008), Math-
ematics (WS05, SS06), Microeconomics (WS07) and Macroeconomics (SS06, SS07, SS08).
Secondary/vocational schools: Foreign language assistant (Nov 2008 Feb 2009) in the
Comenius programme of the EU at Salhus Skole Brnnysund, Norway; Trainee teacher
(Feb 2008 Apr 2008) at Bayer AG Trade School.
Research
Assistance
Max-Planck-Institute of Economics: Research assistant and graduand (Mar 2007
Oct 2008). Contribution to project work in an international team of economists .
Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics: Research intern (Aug 2007 Sep
2007). Credit risk modeling and validation of credit rating models.
Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena: Student assistant (Feb 2007 Jul 2008). Micro-
census of entrepreneurs in the state of Thuringia. Planning, execution and evaluation of
structured interviews with nascent entrepreneurs and start-ups .
Projects Cambridge Contest: Co-development of a software platform that gives students relative
performance feedback based on weekly exercises (18k teaching innovation grant) .
Empirics Clinics: Initiation and organisation of fortnightly one-to-one statistical consult-
ing sessions with a group of Cambridge PhD students .
matchingMarkets Project: Development of an R package for the analysis of matching
data, i.e. which students go to which school, who forms a workgroup with whom, etc .
Athletic
Achievements
German athletic champion with the 3x1000m relay of TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen (Schwein-
furt, 29/07/2001) and runner-up in the 800m junior championship (Dresden, 14/07/2000).
Languages German (native); English (uent); French (intermediate; CEFR: B2; ALTE: Level 3).
Programming R (expert); Matlab; Mathematica; Stata; EViews; L
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References Available on request.
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