Poole Student Nathan Yilma is IEI’s New Finance and Operations Intern
Yilma, who is minoring in finance and accounting at Poole College, will intern at the Institute for Emerging Issue for the 2024-25 academic year.
The Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) is excited to welcome NC State University undergraduate student Nathan Yilma as its new finance and operations intern. Throughout the 2024-2025 academic year, Nathan will support the Finance and Operations team with event planning and management, report preparation, trend analysis to streamline operational processes and post-event evaluations among various administrative tasks.
Learn more about Nathan in the following Q&A:
Major(s): Agricultural Business; Finance and Accounting
Graduation Year: 2027
Hometown: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Extracurricular Activities/Hobbies: Working on cars, and playing basketball and video games
Q: What are your goals after you graduate?
A: To work as an investment banker.
Q: What interests you most about working with IEI? What made you interested in the F&O internship?
A: The variety of tasks I am assigned. I dislike inertia, and working on different types of projects to help uplift the community is an amazing goal and I want to contribute my part.
Q: What do you hope to get out of this experience?
A: I want to learn how to integrate myself within a team and move as one to reach a common goal in a professional setting.
Q: What do you believe is the biggest emerging issue facing our state?
A: I believe affordable housing is going to be a large emerging issue in North Carolina in the next couple of years. With an increase in tech companies gaining interest in integrating to NC, there will most likely be a housing shortage.
This post was originally published in Institute for Emerging Issues.
