Aidan joined the Young Lives Team as a Quantitative Research Assistant in September 2026. He has worked in a variety of research roles, including supporting the implementation and coordination of a livelihoods survey in Peru and researching the resilience of multilateral climate finance in the Global South. 

Aidan holds an MSc in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford and a BA in Economics and Geography from McGill University. His research interests centre on the intersections between policy, inequality, development, and the environment across different scales. His bachelor’s thesis estimated the distributional effects of Canadian carbon taxes across 13 million households, while his master’s research examined how the sequencing of policies contributed to global emissions reductions.