About
I am a Bachellor in Economics ranking in the top 1% of my faculty (over 600 students). I am very concerned on topics such as inequality and poverty.
Throughtout my life, I have always been at the service of my community through volunteering at various institutions.
I have been part part of the NGO United Peruvian Youth since 2021, where I have held different positions, from volunteer member to Strategic Planning Assistant. I have also been member of Sembrando Cultura, an NGO where I assisted Quechua-speaking
children from SOS Children's Villages in improving their Spanish reading skills. I also contributed to Spanglish Tutoring, educating children from underprivileged backgrounds
in English. I engaged in raising awareness about the pressing issue of climate change with Clima de Cambios PUCP.
Additionally, I participated in the UN Volunteers program "Nurturing Hopes, Protecting Families" and the Ministry of Culture "Biccentenial Volunteers",
among other endeavors. I am also a member of the Economics Student's Assembly, where I have interviewed alumni and distinguished economists from the faculty.
I am currently working as a Data Analyst at APOYO Consulting, where I apply machine learning to analyze macroeconomic data and contribute to research across various topics.
Portfolio
During last few years I have worked in multiple volunteering projects, related to different Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Mainly, I have been a volunteer member at United Peruvian Youth (UPY), an NGO focused on endorsing SDG 4 through different activities. I have also participated in activities organized by UN Volunteer Peru, NGO Sembrando Cultura and Spanglish Tutoring. In this section you will find links to some of the work I have been part of. Clicking on the plus sign opens a short description, clicking on the link takes you to a page with more information..
- All
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022/2021
Resume
I am a Bachellor in Economics. I consider myself an empathetic, assertive and hardworking person. I am capable of handling different types of tasks, and I am always excited to learn new skills. My interests span activities with social purposes, having participated in multiple extracurricular projects related to that subject.
Sumary
Esteban Cabrera
Bachellor in Economics from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
- Lima, Peru
- (+51) 980517312
- estebanscabrera@gmail.com
Education
Winter School of Economics
July 2024
University of Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile
- won a scholarship to participate in the Winter School in Political Economics organized by the Institute of Internacional Studies (IEI) at the Graduate School of the University of Chile
- explored topics related to institutional economics, schumpterian economics and history of economic thought.
Summer School of Economics
December 2023
University of Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile
- won a scholarship to participate in the 9th edition of the Summer School in Economics organized by the Master's in Applied Economics (MAGCEA) and the Millennium Institute for Market Imperfections and Public Policy Research (MIPP) at the Graduate School of the University of Chile
- explored topics related to corruption, optimal design of tax policy, and affirmative action.
Bachelor of Economics
2021 - 2024
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
- ranked in the top 1% of the faculty (6th out of 633).
- 2nd place of my graduation class.
- won twice the Economics Students Assembly Essay Competiton.
Volunteering Experience
United Peruvian Youth
March 2021 - Present
Lima, Peru
- helped in raising awareness about SDGs.
- was Strategic Planning Assitant of the Human Management Area, focusing on the integration of all members to the NGO.
- lectured a workshop on SDGs and delivered donations at a public school in a poor district from the capital.
Economics Student's Assembly
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú
- member of the University Social Responsibility (RSU) area.
- interviewed alumni and distinguished economists from the faculty .
Clima de Cambios PUCP
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú
- helped raising awareness about climate change and its consequences.
- prepared blogs and posts for the social media of the organization.
Internacia Civil Association
Aug 2021 - March 2022
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú
- member of the research area of the organization.
- wrote for the bimonthly bulletin on contemporary subjects related to International Relations
UN Volunteers
August 2021
Lima, Perú
- volunteered in the program "Nurturing Hopes, Protecting Families", where I had the task of making informative calls to migrant families about the social programs available to them and provided by the Peruvian government.
NGO Sembrando Cultura
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Lima, Perú
- helped Quechua-speaking children from SOS Children's Villages to read Spanish books.
- accompanied and taught them new vocabulary.
Professional Experience
Data Analyst
Nov 2024 - Present
APOYO Consulting, Miraflores, Lima, Peru
- applied machine learning to analyse and interpret macroeconomic data.
- applied geolocalization techniques to evaluate expansion of criminality in different regions in Peru.
Research Assistant
Aug 2023 - Aug 2024
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), San Miguel, Lima, Peru
- conducted an individual research on inflation forecasting using machine learning techniques.
- collaborated on a team project on corruption prediction with machine learning.
Assistant Professor
March 2023 - Jul 2023
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), San Miguel, Lima, Peru
- prepared lecturing material for classes in Microeconomics 2 (ECO263) with professor Alejandro Lugón Ceruti (alugon@pucp.edu.pe).
- lectured practical classes on weekly subjects.
- corrected exams and student practices.
Risk Analyst Intern
Nov 2023 - April 2023
Banco de Crédito del Perú (BCP), La Molina, Lima, Perú
- worked in as an intern in the Retail Risk Banking Area at Banco de Crédito del Perú, the major private bank in Peru.
- generated monthly reports analyzing customer delinquency trends in retail banking.
- created Qlik Sense dashboards to visually represent and analyze the progression of microcredit programs, using interactive visualizations to showcase key metrics.
Achievements
PUCP Entrepreneurship and Innovation Development Center (CIDE-PUCP) Challenge
September 2023
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), Lima, Perú
- member of a finalist team of the CIDE-PUCP Challenge "Innovation in Social Sciences".
- our group proposed solutions to improve corruption monitoring through the use of new technologies.
Intercultural and linguistic interchange with Yale University
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
- chosen as one of the few selected for the 2022-2 Intercultural interchange between PUCP and Yale University.
- had conversations on contemporary subjects in English with Yale student's from Intensive Elementary Spanish (SPAN125) class.
United Peruvian Youth Delegation at UNCTAD 15
Oct 2021
Bridgetown, Barbados
- was one of the delegate members representing the civil organization United Peruvian Youth at UNCTAD 15.
- attended conferences on resilient growth and prosperity for all.
Workshop "Designing SDG8 Solutions"
April 2019
Universidad del Pacífico, Lima, Perú
- member of the winning team of the Workshop "Designing SDG8 Solutions" of the AKAPACHA FEST 2019, organized by the Center for Leadership, Ethics and Social Responsibility of the Universidad del Pacífico (CLERS) and Participación UP.
- our group proposed solutions to improve the labor situation of domestic workers in Peru.
Projects
In this section I showcase my primary GitHub projects, which span from predictive tasks for policy recommendations to web scraping of national databases. All my projects aim to achieve positive societal impact, helping other researchers in their pursuit of contributing to the greater good.
Inflation Prediction
This project aims to accurately predict Peruvian inflation using different Machine Learning regression techniques
BCRP Webscrapper
In this repository there is a library that facilitates the webscrapping of the Central Bank of Reserve of Peru
Statistics workshop
This is a workshop I lectured basic statistics concepts in Python to early-stage researchers and students.