SHWETA AGARWAL

2405, Goodenough College, Mecklenbergh Square, Bloomsbury, London-WC1N 2AB

Telephone: +44 (0)7825814206
Email: shweta1963@gmail.com, s.agarwal@lse.ac.uk
EDUCATION
Qualifications
Oct 2008 Sept 2013

Oct 2007 Sept 2008

M.Phil./Ph.D Decision Sciences

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE, UK
Research area: Decisions under uncertainty. Model managerial conceptions of risk,
particularly those that reflect an element of control the agent can exert on uncertainty.
MSc. Decision Sciences (Distinction)
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE, UK
Relevant Coursework: Decision Analysis in a Social Context, Advanced
Behavioural Decision Making, Analysis of Strategy, Dynamic Processes and
Game Theory, Applied Decision Sciences summer project at Barclays Wealth

Sept 2005 June 2006

M.A.St. Mathematics (Part III Tripos), Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholar

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Hughes Hall, UK
Relevant Coursework: Advanced Financial Models, Optimal Investments, Operations
Research, Time Series, Stochastic Calculus, Mechanism Design

June 2002 May 2005

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with Honors (Distinction)

UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI, St. Xaviers College, India
Relevant Coursework: Quantitative Economics, Advanced Economics, Option Pricing,
Financial Mathematics, Game Theory, Actuarial Sciences, Mathematical/Descriptive
Statistics and Differential Equations

Honours
2010 2013

AXA Research Fund scholarship award (sponsorship for ongoing PhD research)

2005

2005 Khare Book Prize for most outstanding student at Mumbai University
2005 College Award for standing first in Mathematics, Mumbai

2003

Runner-up, Inter-collegiate Mathematics Seminar: Presented papers on Fractals and

Probability and Tennis, Mumbai

2002 2004

Selected for the National Mathematics Training and Talent Search Program, India

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Industry
June 2008 Present
Quantitative Analyst (Consultancy), DECISION TECHNOLOGY, UK
Work with a team of distinguished experts and perform quantitative analysis for
various market research projects to understand the psychology of consumer behaviour
and thus make recommendations to clients for improvements in corporate strategy.
June 2010 Oct 2010

Risk Consultant for Investment & Products, BARCLAYS WEALTH, UK

Evaluated and implemented an established risk rating methodology to risk rate retail
products. Developed a Bloomberg-linked-tool to maintain current risk-rating.

Oct 2009 Jan 2010

Quantitative Analyst, LSE ENTERPRISE, UK

Coordinated with AxiCom and helped deliver quantitative analysis for Dell IT
Efficiency research project (facilitated by researchers in Information systems and
Innovation, Department of Management, LSE).

June 2008 Sept 2009

Analyst in Behavioural Finance, BARCLAYS WEALTH, UK

Conducted research (with Dr. Greg Davies) in areas of portfolio analysis to develop a
behavioural measure of risk and thus evaluate risk of financial products. Established a
risk-rating methodology and a computing tool (software) to risk rate exotic products.

Teaching
Sept 2009 Present

Sept 2007 June 2009

Research Analysis
June 2004 Aug 2005

Educational Pursuits
May 2010

Graduate Teaching Assistant, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, UK

Class teacher for undergraduate course on Operational Research Methods and post
graduate courses on Operations Management, Principles of Decision Analysis and
Advanced Behavioural Decision Making.
Business Studies and Statistics teacher, BROCKWOOD PARK SCHOOL, UK
Delivered course in Business Studies and Statistics to AS level students as per the
AQA syllabus
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Fellowship
TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH, Mumbai, India.
Conducted research on number theory and programming (with Prof. Ravi Rao).
Authored paper on Units modulo N. Analyzed the Stable Marriage problem
(with Prof. Vivek Borkar) using game theory. Examined applications of strategy proof
mechanisms to hospital, auction and labour markets. Original finding was the upper
bound to the number of matchings.
Participant at conference in Machine Learning and Cognitive Science, Sardinia

July 2007

Participant at conference in Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of

California Los Angeles, USA (Presented paper on Mechanism Design)

July 2006

Attended summer school in Mathematical Economics, University of British

Columbia, Canada. (Courses: Equilibrium Theory, Dynamic Contract Theory &
Corporate Finance, Quality Pricing and Information & Markets)

June 2006

Participant at conference on Game Theory and Computer Science, University of

Aarhus, Denmark (Presented poster on Stable Matching)

SKILLS, INTERESTS & ACHIEVEMENTS

Leadership/ Initiative
2004

Led the Students Union Council as the General Secretary Initiated various events
(e.g. Career Guidance Fair, Film Society and fund-raising for Tsunami Relief
Operations). Also raised profits from other activities for the forthcoming year.

Team Work
Aug 2006 June 2007

Mature Student, BROCKWOOD PARK SCHOOL AND CENTRE FOR

PHILOSOPHY, UK
Studied certified course Art of living and volunteered on an international team of
fifteen mature students to encourage sustainable living.

2005, 2007, 2010

Member of Tennis Club, Rowing Club, Chapel Hoppers Society (Cambridge);

Darwin @ LSE, Business Society (LSE)

2004

Volunteer on committee for organizing Indian Music Group festivals in Mumbai, and
Advertising Committee for citywide college festival, St Xaviers College

Organization
2003
2009 2011

Organized Art Workshop for street girls through an NGO in Mumbai

Talks/ Events in London on themes such as Cinema, Finance and Asian Culture

Computing

Proficient in MATLAB, C, R, VBA, SPSS, MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint

Languages

Fluent in English; mother tongue Hindi

Other Achievements

Winner of running races in Mumbai (2003 & 2004), Winner of Fine Arts Event at
the intercollegiate festival, Malhar (2003 & 2004); Runner-up of Inter college
Basketball Tournament, Mumbai (2003 & 2004)

Hobbies

Painting, yoga, swimming, cooking and travelling