Vol. I — HHX Student · Economics & Politics
Thor Sorensen
Curious about how the world works.
01—About
I'm an HHX student at IBC Kolding, in Denmark, trying to understand why some countries get rich and others get stuck arguing about it.
My interests sit at the intersection of markets and institutions — economics one week, electoral systems the next. I'm most drawn to the moments where the two collide: when a "sound" policy fails because nobody built the coalition to pass it, or when the numbers behind a claim turn out to be doing less work than advertised.
Outside class, I follow policy debates closely, take notes on papers I find convincing (or not), and spend a fair amount of time on statistics, finance, and photography. This site is a short, honest introduction — more will land here as the work does.
02—Interests
Economics & Development
Growth, inequality, and the policy levers that connect them.
Public Policy & Political Economy
Where institutions, incentives, and politics collide.
International Development
Education and human capital — what actually moves a country forward.
Statistics & Causal Inference
Separating correlation from the story we want it to tell.
Finance & Financial Markets
How capital gets priced, allocated, and occasionally misjudged.
Technology
Computers, audio gear, and the tools underneath everything else.
03—Politics & Debate
Several years of student representation, from council elections to the school board.
Student Council Leadership
Elected to lead the student council, setting priorities and running meetings.
Representing ~750 Students
Speaking for the student body in school board meetings and decisions that affect it.
Youth Politics & Debate
Political volunteering, debate, and arguing a position just to test it.
04—Photography
Film, mostly — slower, and harder to fake.
I shoot on vintage cameras and medium format film. There's something I like about the discipline it forces — you get far fewer frames, so you spend longer deciding what's worth one of them.
- 01A
Vintage rangefinders
- 02A
Medium format film
- 03A
Manual focus, manual everything
- 04A
Contact sheets over crops
05—Contact
Research opportunities, internships, collaborations, photography, or just a shared interest in economics and politics — I'd like to hear from you.
- Kolding, Denmark
- thorsorensen0@gmail.com
- Contact for full CV