Rhythm Banerjee is a graduate student in Development Studies at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. He is currently a visiting student pursuing Quantitative Economics at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. His research interests include topics in international economics involving macro-fiscal policy, systemic risk and counter-cyclicality. He is also passionate about the macroeconomics of environmentally vulnerable countries. He is currently working with the Sustainable Development Goals Finance division at UNDP Geneva and previously interned with leading consulting firms in India and Uganda. Rhythm is a recipient of the Bhajan Lal Scholarship for Environment and is a Member of the Leader’s Forum of The Global Education and Leadership Foundation. Prior to IHEID, he was a research assistant at the Genpact Centre for Women's Leadership and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Ashoka University with an Advanced Research Diploma and a B.A. (Honors) in Economics. His thesis was a multinomial logit model assessing how shifts in income groups affect trends in energy consumption in India. Rhythm was born in New Delhi, India.