Placement

Ph.D. in Economics

The Department of Economics has a placement committee to assist students with all phases of the placement process, including understanding the operation of the doctoral labor market, preparing a vita, obtaining interviews, preparing for interviews, and evaluating and negotiating job offers. In the last several years, our Ph.D. graduates have accepted positions as listed below.

Academic

California Policy Lab at UCLA/Berkeley – Shogher Ohannessian

Alma College – Vinitha Varghese

Postdoc

Michigan State University – Josep Nadal-Fernandez

Non-academic

Federal Communications Commission – Cole Campbell

Disney – Zheyuan (Damien) Dong

Analysis Group – Meiqing Ren

Abt Associates – Ayman Shakeel

PricewaterhouseCoopers – Taisiia Stanishevska

Postdocs

University College London – Ruveyda Gozen

Non-academic

Discover Financial Services – Jianhao Chen

Deloitte – Todd Czurylo

McKinsey – Raissa Dantas

Lurie Heart Center – Christina Laternser

Government Accountability Office – Katie McElroy

Eightfold – Maliha Singh

Academic 

Murray State – Ayesha Jamal

University of Chicago Urban Labs – Salman Khan

University of Chicago Urban Labs – Nhu Nguyen

Temple University – Joshua Mask

Postdocs

University College London – Andrew Morgan

Non-academic

Amazon – Yuhao Chen

United States Department of Agriculture – Reem Hashad

Academic 

Monash University Malaysia – Pauline Khoo

Postdocs

University of California-San Diego – Naveen Reddy

University of Kentucky – Chuanyi Guo

Non-academic

Analysis Group – Lu Jinks

Cornerstone Research – Caitlyn Fleming

Federal Communications Commission – Maciej Wachala

United States Census Bureau – Shalise Ayromloo

Academic jobs

Ball State University – Minh Thac Nguyen

Grand Valley State – Christopher Cruz

Cooper Union – Loujaina Abdelwahad

Purdue University-Ft. Wayne – Jeffrey Cline

Postdocs

University of Utah – Hyunkyu Ko

Center for Disease Control – Jiajia Chen

Non-academic jobs

RAND – Jason Ward

US Congress Joint Committee on Taxation – Chia Chang

Federal Express – Chenli Yu

Academic jobs

Tulane University – Engy Ziedan

Vassar College – Alicia Atwood

Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance – Yuanrong Xu

Postdocs

Yale University – Jonathan Oliver

University of Chicago – Chen Meng

Georgia State University – Weixiang Pan

University of Oklahoma – Ahn Ngo

Non-academic jobs

Blue Cross Blue Shield – Carlos Villarreal

Capital One – Xuening Wang

CVS Health – Megan Diaz

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