Jennifer Hinlo received her BS Economics and MS Econometrics degrees from the University of Southeastern Philippines (USeP) in 2007 and 2014. Ms. Hinlo is a recipient of the Higher Education for ASEAN Talent (HEAT) scholarship program of the Korean Council for University Education (KCUE) and ASEAN-Korea Cooperation Fund (AKCF). She is pursuing PhD in Economics major in Agricultural and Resource Economics at Kangwon National University (2022-present). She is a faculty member (on official study leave) at the College of Applied Economics, USeP (2012-present). Prior to her academic career, she worked as a Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Center Specialist at Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industry,Inc. (2007-2010), and as Research and Program Assistant, under the Microenterprise Access to Banking Services (MABS) project funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID), at Chemonics International, Inc. (2010-2012). Her research topics mainly include: Agricultural Markets, Production Economics, Resource Economics, Pricing Analysis, Financial Economics and Time Series Analysis.