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Tiger Gao

Tiger graduated from Princeton University in 2021, majoring in economics with minors in German, Finance, Statistics & Machine Learning, and the Values and Public Life program (an interdisciplinary minor in philosophy, political theory, and ethics). 

After graduating from high school, Tiger attended the macroeconomics summer program at Barcelona Graduate School of Economics with a group of Ph.D. students and policymakers. He didn’t understand much of the complex math equations and macro models but fell in love with economics and public policy debates.

He entered Princeton as an aspiring economist and spent his freshman summer working at the ifo Institute for Economic Research in Germany. At Princeton, he wrote his junior year independent economics research project on monetary transmission mechanism in Switzerland and the effects of monetary policy at the zero lower bound. His recent summer research project concerns how pandemics impact tax revenues and inequality, in particular during the 1918 Spanish Influenza. For his senior thesis, he investigated the efficacy of large-scale debt forgiveness programs – a quasi-Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) policy – as a response to debt crises and recessions.

Tiger previously served as the co-chair of undergraduate associates at Princeton’s Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance, and founded Policy Punchline in 2018 with the mission to explore the present and future widely and deeply through conversations with thought leaders. He hopes to make long-form policy discussions accessible to more people and create a platform where diverse ideas and talents can come together.

In his free time, Tiger does stand-up comedy, plays squash, and is an avid art museum goer. He has published two short art history books in China, and you can watch his stand-up clips on tigergao.com. He can be reached at miaokuan@alumni.princeton.edu.

 

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