Eleven research posts in four years. Econometrics at three universities. A Ballotpedia fellowship that took 12 of more than 90 applicants. Then an analyst’s seat on America’s largest poll of 18–29-year-olds. Every number on this page is a count or a date from his record. Where the record has no number, there is no chart.
So how fast did those posts pile up? Before you see it, draw it.
Research posts he had started by each year, your guess vs. his record
2022 is filled in with two posts. Draw the rest of the line, then see how you did.
Drag across the yellow area to draw. On a keyboard, the left and right arrows pick a year and the up and down arrows set its total.
Source is his record. Each post counts once, in the year it began. See Methods.
| Year | Total | Posts that began |
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| 2022 | 2 |
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| 2023 | 5 |
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| 2024 | 6 |
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| 2025 | 11 |
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Econometrics at three universities in ten months
His research started in economics. He did econometrics at Chapman University from July 2022, at the University of Nevada, Reno from that October, and at the University of Houston from January to March 2023, while the Reno work was still running.
At Reno he researched under Prof. Mark Pingle, on a paper that asks its question in the title.
Research paper · Econometrics
Can Private Enterprise do for Health Care What it Has Done for Food?
Research by Husam Sokar
under Prof. Mark Pingle
University of Nevada, Reno
October 2022 to April 2023
One of 12 fellows, from more than 90 applicants
Then he moved from markets to policy, as a Public Health Policy Analyst at the Institute for Youth in Policy in 2023, and as a Researcher at The World in Us from 2023 into 2024.
In January 2024 Ballotpedia named him a Research Fellow, one of 12 chosen from more than 90 applicants, through March. How selective is that? Guess before you look.
Ballotpedia’s 2024 research fellowship. How many of 90+ applicants got in?
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Three roles at once at the Institute of Politics
In the summer of 2025 the Institute of Politics named him a Fellow in its Policy Program in Economics, researching the impact of international students on Harvard and U.S. universities.
That September the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School put him in three roles at once, through May 2026. He was an analyst on the Harvard Youth Poll, America’s largest poll of 18–29-year-olds. He was associate to Ambassador Katherine Tai, the 19th U.S. Trade Representative. And he consulted for the Red Cross and the United Nations.
At the same time he was a Senior Associate at the Harvard Global Research and Consulting Group, through February 2026, consulting for UNICEF and the Urban Institute, with work for the WHO and the UN as well.
Who the consulting work was for, 2025–2026
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Adding it up
Eleven research posts in four years, at eight institutions. He started with econometrics in university economics departments and ended up as an analyst on America’s largest poll of 18–29-year-olds.