Jack Minchin

Senior Economist

Nottingham, UK | Oxford, UK +44 7805 310 420 jackminchin@gmail.com

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Senior Economist at Oxford Economics. Distinction in MSc Economics from the University of Nottingham. 1st Class Honours degree in Economics and Management from NTU. Founder of This is Stratum Ltd.

Latest Articles

Assessing the Potential Impacts of the GCC Unified Visa

The Paradox of Choice

Education

University of Nottingham

2020-2021

Distinction | MSc Economics

Simulating and presenting DSGE models in Dynare and Matlab, Vector Autoregression, a range of microeconometric techniques in Stata and Python, documents and presentations in LaTex. My dissertation studies the effects of the inclusion of a Central Bank Digital Currency on financial disintermediation and the wider economic impact using a DSGE model.

  • Applied Macroeconomic Methods
  • Applied Microeconometrics
  • Behavioural Economic Theory
  • Econometric Theory
  • Monetary Theory and Practice
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Nottingham Trent University

2017 - 2020

1st Class | BA (Hons) Economics & Business Management

OLS regression aiming to uncover the effect of human capital growth on energy intensity and carbon emissions.

  • Research Project
  • Data Mining and Financial Analytics
  • International Development Economics
  • Industry Corporations and Government
  • Investment and Portfolio Management
Work Experience

Oxford Economics - Tourism Economics

2022 - Present

Senior Economist

Oxford Economics - Tourism Economics

2021 - 2022

Economist

RODA Technology Ltd

2021

Director

Strategic technology support for small businesses.

This is Stratum Ltd

2019 - Present

Founder & Managing Director

Stratum is a smart concierge and travel discovery platform designed to remove the paradox of choice in travel. When faced with the incumbent travel booking platforms, users are overwhelmed with a seemingly endless list of options. Compounded with multiple options for hotels, flights, and itineraries - we believe the probability of a user choosing the optimal choice is almost zero.

Custom Group Ltd

2020 - 2021

Software & Systems Engineer

I have the sole responsibility for creating and maintaining proprietary software to complete antiligature safety inspections for healthcare applications. The architecture includes an Ionic Hybrid application with a Node.js application and multiple Angular and React dashboards.

Private Tutor

2017 - 2019

Maths, English & Science Tutor

Helping GCSE students achieve their potential through a better understanding of core concepts, intensive practice revision and exam strategy.

Schofield Commerical Interiors Ltd

2016 - 2019

Marketing, Web Development & IT Solutions

Minchin & Dowsing Group Ltd

2016 - 2018

Founder

Driving the digital transformation in the automotive manufacturing sector. We created software that digitalised the heretofore paper-based works instructions providing increased efficiency and accountability.

Projects
2023

ResearchLens

AI driven literature review tool

2020

Safer-Track

Cloud based mobile anti-ligature inspection application

2020

Free school meal voucher automation

10x efficiency improvements for COVID-19 FSM vouchers

2019

Displayapp.site

A lightweight Node.js, Angular and Electron application delivering signage solutions for small organsiations.

2019

PyONS

A simple Python wrapper for the Office for National Statistics API

Skills
Stata
R
Python (pandas etc.)
Minitab and SPSS
Node.JS
Golang
MatLab
Python
Dynare
React
Angular 2+
MongoDB
Premier Pro
LaTeX
MS Office Suite
MacOS
Unix/Linux
Windows
Courses

Python Data Scientist

DataCamp

  • Intermediate Python
  • Python Data Science Toolbox (Part 1 & 2)
  • Introduction to importing data in Python
  • Statistical Thinking in Python (Part 1 & 2)
  • Introduction to deep learning in Python
  • Intermediate importing data in Python
  • Introduction to Tensorflow in Python
  • Introduction to Data Visualisation in Python
  • Introduction to Linear Modelling in Python