Rohan is a recent graduate from the University of Otago, where he completed a Master of Economics and Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Economics along with a minor in Finance and Music Technology. Rohan has an aptitude for market analysis and has developed extensive data analytics skills through his work in the IDI.
During his studies he achieved the Commerce Deans list three times, placed three years in a row on the Economics Honour Roll and tutored undergraduate Macroeconomics.

Rohan’s thesis involved empirical analysis on the gender pay gap in New Zealand using microdata provided by Statistics NZ. He applied Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition techniques and explored the role of tertiary subject choices as explanatory components of the gap as well as the impacts of gender differences in occupation sorting patterns. The key finding was a significantly lower raw gender pay gap than in any previous NZ literature, but a negative explained component primarily driven by the greater level of female educational attainment relative to males.