Dilyana Dimova

Bulgaria

DPhil Economics, 2013
Balliol College
Funding: Hoffmann

Dilyana is currently an economist at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and doesresearch on housing finance. She is working on a nationwide project on homeownership discrimination for the White House and another one on the reasons for mortgage loan denials. 

After earning an MPhil in Economics as a Weidenfeld Scholar in 2010, Dilyana went on to complete her DPhil in Economics at Oxford in 2013.

She received her BA in Economics from Stanford University in 2004. Prior to Oxford, she has worked on education reform at the Hoover Institution at Stanford and on productivity and crisis propagation in transitional countries at the OECD. While at Oxford, Dilyana has worked as the Director of Research at MobileMetrix, a non-profit social development organisation that operates in Brazilian impoverished communities, where she helped design surveys, analyse data and identify the greatest needs in surveyed communities. After Oxford, Dilyana worked as an Economist at the International Monetary Fund.

Dilyana is based in San Francisco, CA, USA.

“I credit my time at oxford and especially my experience as a Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholar with developing my desire for community engagement in order to support regional development. This engagement with vulnerable communities has been the focal point of my work as a non-profit researcher in Brazil’s impoverished favelas, as an economist working on economic development in Western Africa and as a housing finance specialist identifying underserved populations in the US.”