CV 

Current Position

2022 to Present:
Economist (Non-political Official) at the Tax and Customs Department, Ministry of Finance, Government Offices of Sweden
2017 to Present:
Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Economics, Uppsala University
Advisor:
Mikael Bask, Director of Graduate Studies and Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Uppsala University
Secondary Advisor:
Chuan-Zhong Li, Professor, Department of Economics, Uppsala University and Research Fellow, Beijer Institute.  

Research Interest

Primary:
Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Public Economics
Secondary:
Social Networks, Inequality, Economics of Education

Extended Research Visits

2019 - 2020
Visiting Student Researcher, UC Berkeley, Center for Equitable Growth, and IRLE, Sponsored by Emmanuel Saez

Education 

2017 - 2024 (Planned dissertation defence 7th November 2024)
PhD, Economics, Uppsala University
2016 - 2017
Langue et civilisation françaises, Accord, Ecole du Langue, Paris, France. (Acquired CEFR level: B1)
2014 - 2016
MSc, Econometrics, Stockholm University
2011 - 2014
BSc, Economics, Stockholm University

Teaching Experience

2019, 2020, 2021
Macroeconomics II (PhD), Teaching Assistant, Uppsala University
2018, 2020
Macroeconomics I (PhD), Teaching Assistant, Uppsala University
2018, 2019
Principles of Micro- and Macroeconomics (Undergraduate), Teaching Assistant, Uppsala University

Professional Activities 

Spring, 2021
Organizer, Macro/International Economics Group, Uppsala University
2018 - 2020
Board member of PhD Association, Department of Economics, Uppsala University
2018 - 2019
Chair of Uppsala Economics Association
2018 - 2019
Representative to the PhD Students' Council of the Faculty of Social Science, Uppsala University

Seminar and Conference Presentations

2021
Internal Seminar, Uppsala University; PhD Workshop, Uppsala University
2020
PhD Workshop, Uppsala University
2019
Workshop in Macroeconomics and Financial Markets, Stanford University; Internal Seminar, Uppsala University; PhD Workshop, Uppsala University

Grants and Awards

2018
Full scholarship for studies abroad, awarded by the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation, 400 000 SEK (40 000 USD)

Programming

Advanced:
Python, Matlab,  Mathematica,  R, Stata, LaTex
Intermediate:
C++, Java, SAS

Personal

Language:
Swedish (native), English (fluent), French (intermediate)
Citizenship:
Swedish
Date of Birth:
April 19, 1990  

Contact

Email:
markus.ridder@gmail.com
Phone:
+46(0)73 432 05 86