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Economics student Quan Le is profiled as new rising star in UofT news

Undergrad student’s work in Rwanda helps connect isolated villages to roads


There were times last summer in Rwanda while Quan Le was making maps for a World Bank road project that he wondered what some people might think if they knew the cartography was being done by an undergraduate student from the University of Toronto.

He needn’t have worried.

A short while later, his professor reported he had visited the office of a Rwandan government official and spotted one of Le’s maps hanging prominently on the wall.

“That was pretty cool,” says Le, who came to Canada from Vietnam in 2010 when he was still in high school and just four years later became a research assistant for U of T economist Marco Gonzalez-Navarro through Ontario’s work-study program.

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