"I was in the Marines while I was in undergrad and 9/11 happened, so I did a tour in Iraq. When I left the military, I entered the public sector and started working for the Department of the Treasury in 2006. In 2008, the financial crisis happened, and I raised my hand to be on the Tiger team, without knowledge about finance or economics."
"I had a great experience at the Treasury, and that told me a whole lot about markets that I didn't know, and I was really intrigued by it. I ended up getting an MBA from Wharton in 2017 and a Master's in public administration at Harvard in 2019 - but that wasn't what I originally had in mind. When I was around 30 years old, I had plans to go to law school."
Ryan Swann served in the Marines during undergrad and deployed to Iraq after 9/11. He joined the Department of the Treasury in 2006 and volunteered for a Tiger team during the 2008 financial crisis despite lacking finance background. He later earned an MBA from Wharton in 2017 and a Master's in public administration from Harvard in 2019. He originally planned to attend law school, took the LSAT, and secured strong results. A mentor asked three pivotal questions that changed his trajectory and led him to choose an MBA and a career focused on data-driven policy and analytics.
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