Research Assistant Business Analyst

Mariam Ishaq Email: ******.*****@*****.*******.*** 14149 Brafferton Pkwy, Phone: +1-260-***-****

Fort Wayne, IN

Employment History

South Dakota State University (SDSU) Brookings, SD

•Graduate Research Assistant in NSME department Dec. 2020 – Jun 2022 Graduate Teaching Assistant Fall 2021, Spring 2022

•Ali Medical Centre Islamabad, Pakistan

Business Analyst Jun. 2013 – Nov. 2020

•Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan

Graduate Research Assistant Jan. 2011 - Jun. 2013

•Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan

Teaching Assistant and Program Coordinator Apr. 2008 - Jan. 2011

•United Bank Limited Islamabad, Pakistan

Internee in Operations and Maintenance department May. 2008 - Jul. 2008

•Standard Chartered Islamabad, Pakistan

Internee in Finance Department May. 2009 - Jul. 2009

•Chenab Textiles Islamabad, Pakistan

Internee in sales department May. 2010 - July. 2010

Education

South Dakota State University Brookings, SD

M.S. in Economics; GPA 3.75/4.00 Jan. 2021 - May 2022

Thesis: Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Raised Carbon-friendly beef using discrete choice experiment

•Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan

MBA Finance; GPA 3.5/4 Aug. 2011 - Jun. 2013

Thesis: Empirical Analysis of access of Primary education in South Asian countries using Gini Coefficient

Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan

•BBA Finance; Summa Cum Laude (GPA 3.72/4.00) Feb. 2007 - Jun. 2010

Products

Journal papers

•M.Ishaq, D. Kolady, and C. Grebitus, “Mitigating climate change through moderating consumer preferences towards beef raised carbon-friendly,” The Journal of Choice Modelling, Special Issue on Climate Adaptation- Informing decisions about climate change adaptation by choice modelling, Nov. 2022, (under review)

•M.Ishaq, D. Kolady, and C. Grebitus, “Profiling green consumers of Beef in U.S. using psychographic, sociodemographic and revealed behavior variables,” Food Policy, Special Issue on applying behavioral science to agriculture, food, and agri-environmental policy, Feb. 2022, (under review)

•Bindu Paudel, Deepthi Kolady, Carola Grebitus, Aniruddha Roy, Mariam Ishaq,” Consumers’ willingness to pay for pork produced with different levels of antibiotics,” in Q Open, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2022, qoac001, https://doi.org/10.1093/qopen/qoac001.

•Bindu Paudel, Deepthi Kolady,David Just, Mariam Ishaq, “Effect of information and innovator reputation on consumers' willingness to pay for genome-edited foods,”in Food Quality and Preference(under review)

Conference papers

•M.Ishaq, D. Kolady, and C. Grebitus “Relevant attitudes that improve willingness to pay for beef labelled carbon-friendly, Humanely Raised and Blockchain traceable” Western Agricultural Economics Association 2022.

•M.Ishaq, D. Kolady, C. Grebitus and E. Vanderslius “Consumer Preferences for Carbon-friendly Labeled Beef” Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 2022, Track Sessions.

•Poster presentations

M.Ishaq, “Information that moderates consumer preferences towards beef raised carbon friendly, NSME 2021 Poster competition.

•Invited talks

M.Ishaq, “Emerging Trends and Challenges of adopting Blockchain Traceability for beef” in Research Fridays at South Dakota State University.

Skills

•Programming skills: Stata, R programming language, N Logit, Excel

•Other skills: Project Management, Survey management, data analysis, analytical, communication, primary research (both qualitative and quantitative), Time management

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