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Timothy Woods
Robbie Burda
WORLD BANK ANALYST
LOVEENA DOOKHONY, CLASS OF 2005
When Loveena spent the summer before her senior year working and living at a Ugandan orphanage for children with AIDS, she grew frustrated that a lack of resources prevented the children from receiving medication in a timely way. After witnessing three children die during her two months there, she knew that she wanted to pursue a career that helped eradicate poverty. Originally from Mauritius, Loveena also knew that she wanted to focus her efforts on Africa.
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The economics major and international relations minor returned to Lake Forest armed with data for her senior thesis, which assessed the health and education outcomes of children with and without parents. She conducted data analysis using computer software and techniques that she learned in the classroom with assistance from Associate Professor of Economics Robert Lemke, who had inspired her to develop her senior thesis based on her experience in Uganda. He also advised her during the graduate school application process.
After graduating, Loveena entered the top-ranked Maxwell School of Syracuse University for dual master’s degrees in economics and public administration. Now working at the World Bank, Loveena analyzes data to learn how far developing countries are from achieving gender equality for the United Nations Millennium Development Goals initiative, which aims to end global poverty by 2015. She still finds Professor Lemke’s instruction valuable. “What I learned in his Econometrics class even now helps me in my work,” she says. “He’s a hard teacher, but he makes you work, and you learn a lot.”