Biography
Angie Jo is a PhD candidate in Political Economy at MIT. Her dissertation research examines differences in how wealthy democratic countries insure themselves against the risk of large collective crises—such as financial crisis, COVID-19, and climate change-induced natural disasters—and recover from their aftermath. She is interested in how different societies conceive of the proper role of the state in protecting public welfare, what relationship this has with the design of their welfare state, and in what moments the meaning of “welfare” itself might change.
Angie holds a Master of City Planning degree from MIT, during which she studied master-planned cities and industrial policy in China and South Korea. Her thesis work was published in Toward Urban Economic Vibrancy: Patterns and Practices in Asia's New Cities, edited by Siqi Zheng and Zhengzhen Tan (2020). Prior to MIT, she worked in macroeconomics research and investment at Bridgewater Associates and earned an A.B. summa cum laude in Architecture Studies from Harvard, where her thesis on Brutalist civic buildings won the Hoopes and Bowdoin essay prizes. Angie has held leadership positions at Harvard College Effective Altruism—a forum for exploring how to use limited resources to help others—and Diversity/Equity/Inclusion working groups at MIT to expand representation in academia.
Angie is a recipient of the Homer A. Burnell Presidential Graduate Fellowship at MIT and the 2022-2025 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Doctoral Scholarship.
Biography
Angie Jo is a PhD candidate in Political Economy at MIT. Her dissertation research examines differences in how wealthy democratic countries insure themselves against the risk of large collective crises—such as financial crisis, COVID-19, and climate change-induced natural disasters—and recover from their aftermath. She is interested in how different societies conceive of the proper role of the state in protecting public welfare, what relationship this has with the design of their welfare state, and in what moments the meaning of “welfare” itself might change.
Angie holds a Master of City Planning degree from MIT, during which she studied master-planned cities and industrial policy in China and South Korea. Her thesis work was published in Toward Urban Economic Vibrancy: Patterns and Practices in Asia's New Cities, edited by Siqi Zheng and Zhengzhen Tan (2020). Prior to MIT, she worked in macroeconomics research and investment at Bridgewater Associates and earned an A.B. summa cum laude in Architecture Studies from Harvard, where her thesis on Brutalist civic buildings won the Hoopes and Bowdoin essay prizes. Angie has held leadership positions at Harvard College Effective Altruism—a forum for exploring how to use limited resources to help others—and Diversity/Equity/Inclusion working groups at MIT to expand representation in academia.
Angie is a recipient of the Homer A. Burnell Presidential Graduate Fellowship at MIT and the 2022-2025 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Doctoral Scholarship.