Khine is currently a second-year MBA and Master’s in Systemic Risk Candidate at Yale SOM. Prior to SOM, Khine spent 3 years in commercial banking, launching deposit, loan, and trade settlement products at one of the largest commercial banks back in her home country, Myanmar. While working during an active political coup, Khine had exposure into the operations of the Central Bank of Myanmar, and became increasingly interested in micro and macroprudential regulation.
Outside of the classroom, Khine is co-chair of the Economic Development Club at Yale SOM and a player in the Yale Badminton Team.
Daniel has a history of working with diverse social sector organizations, and particularly with organizations advancing strategies that foster equitable access to capital and influence. Prior to coming to Yale SOM, he worked as a social sector consultant on projects for organizations such as the Mastercard Foundation, Hispanics in Philanthropy, FilmAid International, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development. Before that, he worked as a credit analyst at Urban Partnership Bank, a community development bank dedicated to investing in Chicago's undercapitalized neighborhoods. He graduated with Bachelor’s degrees in Sociology and Spanish from the University of Chicago and is currently an MBA candidate at Yale School of Management.
Reika is a 1Y Symposium Lead for the Economic Development Club. Prior to SOM, Reika was working in investment banking at Morgan Stanley in Tokyo. She is passionate about gender equity and global health issues, and has led workshops on these topics in rural areas in Kenya. In investment banking, she spearheaded DEI initiatives, and she hopes to create a more robust inclusion of women in the corporate sector. Reika graduated from Wellesley College in 2020 with a degree in Economics.
Ash Duong is a first-year MBA candidate at the Yale School of Management (’25). Before coming to Yale SOM, Ash worked as a transportation engineer, project manager, and future of mobility educator for the Texas Department of Transportation in various departments and functions across engineering, including infrastructure design, long-term strategy planning, construction, and traffic. He is currently a Public Impact Fellow for the State of Connecticut – Office of the Governor and is working to increase EV adoption across the state.
Born in Vietnam and raised in Houston, TX, Ash holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering with a focus on Transportation from Texas A&M University (’19). He is passionate about making an impact in the future of mobility, VR/AR/XR, and generative AI at the intersection of technology, public policy, sustainability, and equity.
Daksh is in his first year of the Master of Business Administration program at the Yale School of Management (SOM). Before joining SOM, he served as a pre-MBA consultant at Asha Impact, where he contributed to projects involving blended finance and policy advocacy. His undergraduate studies were completed at Delhi University, majoring in management science.
Following his undergrad, Daksh worked at Kearney, a management consulting firm, where he worked in private equity, research, and strategy consulting. Subsequently, he transitioned to a role as a strategy consultant with a social enterprise, focusing on the eradication of human trafficking in India. He continued to work in social impact with his tenure as a public sector consultant for state governments, part of UChicago's social impact fellowship, International Innovation Corps. In this role, Daksh concentrated on governance interventions in health, nutrition, and technology.
At SOM, he is a first-year lead at the Economic Development Club.
William is a first year Yale SOM MBA student. Prior to Yale, William has worked in the consulting industry advising companies across industries such as energy, telecom, aviation, and others. In his various roles across Oliver Wyman and Teneo, William helped global companies on issues regarding growth strategy, operational improvement, sustainability, and others. William received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from New York University.
David previously served as the Director for Shawnee State University's Kricker Innovation Hub, a multi-million entrepreneurship center project. Over the course of his tenure, he secured federal grants totaling $7 million to create the Hub and build a digital and immersive technology accelerator program. He also led a federally funded regional partnership to support entrepreneurship and economic growth by leveraging makerspaces and business coaching resources. He’s passionate about entrepreneurship and supporting the economic competitiveness of small business.
Dylan, a New York native, studied Community and International Development at Temple University in Philadelphia. He then joined the Peace Corps and worked as an Economic Development Volunteer and Business Advisor in rural Colombia for two years. He spent the next two and a half years working as a Tenant Organizer in Brooklyn and Queens. In this role he organized groups of low-income tenants to fight for their housing rights against abusive landlords and developers. Before starting at Yale, he interned with Air Asia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.