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PhD in Sustainable Development Student Profiles
Jesse Anttila-Hughes
www.columbia.edu/~jka2110/
Jesse Antilla-Hughes is a fourth-year student in the Sustainable Development program and an NSF IGERT-IDG Fellow. His areas of interest include climate change, disasters and rare events, finance, corruption and crime, and environmental economics. After graduating from Harvard University in 2002 with an A.B.in physics, Jesse spent time studying at Peking University, followed by several years doing statistical analysis and corporate finance in Citigroup's investment bank, where he learned to appreciate applied statistics as well as the joys of working on too many projects at once.
Outside of academic work, Jesse enjoys a variety of pursuits, most notably cooking, traveling, exploring cities, and martial arts. He speaks varying degrees of French, Mandarin, Japanese, and Spanish, as well as very poor Russian.