Maxim Pinkovskiy of Brooklyn, New York is an Economics-Mathematics major.  A Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, Maxim is pursuing a Ph.D. in Economics next year.  A past winner of both the Feigenbaum Prize for Literature Humanities and the Shenton Prize for Contemporary Civilization, he is currently working on a paper on the estimation of world distribution of income, global poverty rates and the income inequality.