Biography
Angie Jo is a PhD candidate in Political Economy at MIT. Her dissertation research examines differences in how the welfare states of advanced industrialized democracies respond to collective crisis risks, such as COVID-19, the Financial Crisis, and natural disasters. She is particularly interested in how the institutional, political, and ideological constraints of Liberal welfare regimes shape the menu of state interventions that are available to them in times of crisis.
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 (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 is a recipient of the Homer A. Burnell Presidential Graduate Fellowship at MIT and the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Doctoral Scholarship.
Headshot by Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
Biography
Angie Jo is a PhD candidate in Political Economy at MIT. Her dissertation research examines differences in how the welfare states of advanced industrialized democracies respond to collective crisis risks, such as COVID-19, the Financial Crisis, and natural disasters. She is particularly interested in how the institutional, political, and ideological constraints of Liberal welfare regimes shape the menu of state interventions that are available to them in times of crisis.
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 (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 is a recipient of the Homer A. Burnell Presidential Graduate Fellowship at MIT and the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Doctoral Scholarship.
Headshot by Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.