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Nidhi Srivastava

@nidhisrivastava2

Applied data analyst at Cook County Government building economic development dashboards and automated workflows for policy planning.

United States

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At Cook County Government’s Bureau of Economic Development, I conduct quantitative impact assessments and build dashboards and automated workflows that inform policy design, compliance reporting, and strategic planning.

At Tur Partners LLC, I built a comparative portfolio allocation model for a $33B Public Treasurer’s Investment Fund and designed analytical infrastructure for Utah banking-system scenario testing. My work has also included estimating cash-transfer inflation effects at IDinsight and developing a SAS-based RWA sensitivity simulator at Barclays.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Applied Data Fellow

Cook County Government

Aug 2025 - Jul 2026 (11 months)

Conducting quantitative impact assessments and dashboards for county-level economic development initiatives, building KPIs and automated workflows, and translating analytical findings into inputs for policy design and strategic planning.

Data Analysis Dashboarding KPI development Policy Analysis Automation

Lead Analyst

Tur Partners LLC

Aug 2025 - Nov 2025 (3 months)

Built a comparative portfolio allocation model for a $33B Public Treasurer's Investment Fund and designed end-to-end analytical infrastructure including FDIC API data pipelines and interactive dashboards for real-time scenario testing.

Python Data Pipelines Financial Modeling Dashboard Development API Integration

Research Intern

Idinsight

Jun 2024 - Aug 2024 (2 months)

Estimated the causal inflationary impact of cash transfers on 2,500+ households in Malawi using two-way fixed effects and quasi-experimental regression methods in STATA, and analyzed focus group discussions to assess risks in transitioning to digital payments.

Stata Econometrics Data Analysis Qualitative Analysis Policy Research

Credit Risk Analyst

Barclays

Jul 2022 - Jul 2023 (1 year)

Delivered regulatory ICAAP and executed capital and IFRS9 credit risk models for UK stress testing, and developed a SAS-based RWA Impact Simulator to model capital impacts under Basel III to Basel IV transition.

SAS Credit Risk IFRS 9 Basel III Basel IV RWA PD Modeling LGD Performance Testing Data Analysis

Data Intern

Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS)

May 2021 - Aug 2021 (3 months)

Cleaned and managed panel data of women domestic workers using STATA, and applied statistical hypothesis testing to validate the economic impact of COVID-19 lockdown.

Stata Data Cleaning Data Pipelines Statistical Testing Panel Data

Intern

Niti Ayog, Government of India

Jun 2019 - Jul 2019 (1 month)

Extracted and analyzed macroeconomic time-series data from RBI and World Bank databases using SPSS to support development of a policy note on India's monetary policy framework.

SPSS Data Analysis Macroeconomic Analysis Policy Research

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of Chicago

Master of Public Policy, Public Policy

Activities and societies: Relevant Coursework - Private Institutional Investing, Causal Inference, Portfolio Risk Management, Machine Learning, Banking Regulation, Cost-Benefit Analysis, ESG Risk; Client-Based Coursework: Conducted quantitative portfolio analysis of Chicago Pension Funds; TA Experience: International Trade Banking and Capital Markets (Autumn 2024 & Spring 2025), Behavioral Economics (Autumn 2023)

Pursued a Master of Public Policy with a Data Analytics Certificate, completing coursework in machine learning, causal inference, and portfolio risk management.

Madras School of Economics

Master of Arts, Applied Quantitative Finance

Activities and societies: Probability and Statistics, Fixed Income Securities, Stochastic Calculus, Financial Econometrics, Survival Models, Game Theory, Corporate Finance

Completed a Master of Arts in Applied Quantitative Finance, covering probability, fixed income, stochastic calculus, and financial econometrics.