Vaasavi Unnava (pronounced VAH-suh-vee) is currently a Master’s student in Economics and Social Sciences at Bocconi University, Italy. After graduating with a B.S. in Economics at Carnegie Mellon University in 2017, she took her first dive into economics research at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, where she worked as a Research Assistant in the Division of Research and Statistics. She then spent one year at the Yale Program on Financial Stability, working as a Research Associate under Andrew Metrick, writing case studies to catalogue and assess policy interventions developed in response to financial crises, specifically focusing on the Japanese Financial Crisis. During these few years, she learned about her passion for economics research, and hopes to apply to PhD programs to matriculate in 2022. Though Vaasavi’s research interests originated in macro-finance, international finance, and monetary policy, she has also recently become interested in political economy. Additionally, during her time at Bocconi, she hopes to explore finance applications to development economics. Vaasavi is a Rotary Global Grant Scholar and has received awards both for her service work and her work advancing women in the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.