About us

Mentors who have done the work, not just taught it.

Meridian is run by its two founders. When you book, you are taught by an economist with real research and finance experience, not handed to a junior tutor.

Bhimraj Singh Bhuller
Founding Partner · Economics & research

Bhimraj Singh Bhuller

A predoctoral researcher at MIT who teaches IB Economics the way it is actually marked, with structure, evaluation, and research discipline.

Bhimraj is a predoctoral researcher at MIT FutureTech, the interdisciplinary group spanning MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and MIT Sloan's Initiative on the Digital Economy. He completed graduate economics at Boston University, where he led the Graduate Economics Association and researched historical international trade in Southeast Asia, as well as China's overseas economic activity at BU's Global Development Policy Center. Before academia he worked in finance as an Investment Banking Analyst at UOB and an Equity Research Analyst at Maybank.

Teaches: IB Economics, IA & EE research design, econometrics, and exam strategy.

MIT

Predoctoral Researcher, MIT FutureTech (MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and MIT Sloan Initiative on the Digital Economy).

Boston U.

Graduate economics; President of the Graduate Economics Association; trade research in Southeast Asia.

BU GDP Center

Policy research on China's overseas economic activity and international institutions.

Finance

Investment Banking Analyst, UOB. Equity Research Analyst, Maybank Investment Banking Group.

References
  1. Neil Thompson MIT FutureTech, CSAIL, and MIT Sloan Initiative on the Digital Economy Bio Google Scholar
  2. Matthias Mertens MIT FutureTech Bio Google Scholar
  3. Robert King Boston University Economics Bio Wikipedia Google Scholar
  4. Laurence Kotlikoff Boston University Economics Bio Wikipedia Google Scholar
  5. Regina Cati Boston University Economics Bio

Hobbies and how he found economics

Bhimraj found economics through history and trade: reading about how economies across Southeast Asia grew and stumbled, and wanting to understand why. Outside Meridian he reads widely, keeps an eye on global markets, and is happiest when a hard idea finally clicks for a student.

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Timothy Nguyen
Founding Partner · Economics, mathematics & finance research

Timothy Nguyen

An economics and mathematics researcher who brings quantitative finance research and rigorous empirical methods into IB Economics, Business Management, IA, and EE work.

Timothy studies Mathematics and Economics at Boston University, with advanced coursework in econometrics, statistics, optimization research, linear algebra, probability, and financial mathematics. His research experience includes predoctoral work with the Wharton School Finance Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania, funded macroeconomic research on large devaluations and real exchange-rate dynamics under Prof. Joaquin Blaum, and GLOB-S research on firm resilience using large-scale subsidiary and disaster-exposure data. He works across Python, Stata, R, SQL, panel data, fixed effects, instrumental variables, and time-series analysis.

Teaches: IB Business Management, IB Economics, IA & EE data and research methods, quantitative analysis.

Wharton

Predoctoral research, Wharton School Finance Research Center, University of Pennsylvania.

Boston U.

B.A. Mathematics and Economics; Minor in Business Administration.

Economics

Funded research on large devaluations, exchange-rate dynamics, and macroeconomic panel data with Prof. Joaquin Blaum.

Methods

Python, Stata, R, SQL, fixed effects, IV regression, time-series analysis, and calculus teaching experience.

References
  1. Victor Orestes University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School Bio Website
  2. Parinitha Sastry University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School Bio Website Google Scholar
  3. Courtney Wiegand University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School Bio Website Google Scholar
  4. Robert King Boston University Economics Bio Wikipedia Google Scholar
  5. Joaquín Blaum Boston University Economics Bio Website Google Scholar
  6. Luis Ballesteros Boston University Questrom School of Business Bio Website Google Scholar

Hobbies and how he found economics

Timothy found economics through mathematics: he wanted to know why currencies collapse and how an economy can swing on a single policy choice, then learned the models that answer it. Away from the data he tinkers with code, reads about markets, and likes turning a messy real-world question into something you can actually measure.

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Why Meridian exists

The missing bridge is research readiness.

Most IB support stops at the syllabus. The students who pull ahead can do something else: ask a sharp question, structure an argument, and defend it with evidence.

That is the gap we close. We help students move from syllabus knowledge to better writing, data fluency, and academic direction, the skills that decide IA and EE marks today, and university outcomes later.

Why economics

Where our passion for economics comes from.

We did not start Meridian to run a tutoring business. We started it because economics changed how each of us sees the world, and we want students to feel that too.

Bhimraj was pulled in by development and trade, how one policy choice ripples through real economies and real lives. Timothy was pulled in by the mathematics behind shocks, why currencies break and what the data actually shows. Two different doors into the same subject.

That is the energy we bring to every session. Not just "here is the markscheme", but "here is why this idea is worth getting right".

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