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Placements

Click on each year below to see where our Job Market Candidates have been placed!

  • Students entering the job market from the ’22-’23 class
    • Terrence Jewell - post-doc, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
    • Lan Lan - Assistant Professor, Liaoning University, China
    • Jun Li - post-doc, University of Hong Kong
    • Hugo Pereira - Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, WI
  • Students entering the job market from the ’21-’22 class
    • Chitraporn Amrapala - Economist, Fiscal Policy Office, Ministry of Finance Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand
    • Guncha Babajanova - Economist, Amazon's Core Al Team, Seattle, WA
    • Matthew Cronin - Senior Economist, Quantitative Economic Solutions, Boston, MA
    • Yinlin Dai - Visiting Professor, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
    • Krishna Khatri - Lecturer, The Ohio State University at Marion, Marion, OH
    • Tabitha Knott - Visiting Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
    • Cory Simpkins - Visiting Assistant Professor, Miami University, Oxford, OH
    • Aspen Underwood - Lead Economist, MITRE, McLean, VA
  • Students entering the job market from the ’20-’21 class
    • Shubhashrita Basu - Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
    • Tyler Francis - Assistant Professor of Economics, Lincoln Memorial University, Cumberland Gap, TN
    • Shannon Graham - Data Scientist, Booz Allen Hamilton, Rome, NY
    • Majid Hashemi - Postdoctoral Fellow, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
    • Shilpi Mukherjee - Economist, Keystone Strategy, New York City, NY
    • Guangshun Qiao - Lecturer, Wenzhou Business College, China
    • Jaejeong Shin - Research Fellow, Korea Energy Economics Institute, Ulsan, South Korea
    • Adam Witham - Assistant Professor, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
    • Shen Zhang - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Tsinghua University, China
  • Students entering the job market from the ’19-’20 class
    • Xi Bai - Assistant Professor, The Department of Finance, Guangdong University of Finance & Economics, China
    • Jeremy Choquette - Data Analyst, Avanza Co., Washington, D.C. & Adjunct Faculty Member, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN (teaching Money & Banking online)
    • Haibin Jiang - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
    • Elijah Neilson - Assistant Professor, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT
    • Caitlin O’Loughlin - Financial Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
    • Benjamin Posmanick - Assistant Professor, St. Bonaventure University, St. Bonaventure, NY
    • Guanghua Wang - Assistant Professor, The Institute of Urban Development, Nanjing Audit University, China
    • Kenneth Whaley - Economist, Caterpillar Inc., Houston, TX
    • Sarah Wilson - Research Analyst/Economist, CNA, Arlington, VA
    • Shirong Zhao - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN
  • Students entering the job market from the ’18-’19 class
    • Smriti Bhargava - Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Union College, Schenectady, NY
    • Wing Yin "Bobby" Chung - Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
    • Jonathan Ernest - Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
    • Roksana Ghanbariamin - Economist, Analysis Group, Dallas, TX
    • Benjamin Harbolt - Economist, Office of Risk Analysis & Research, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Washington, DC.
    • Liuna Issagholian - Senior Data Scientist, IBM, Armonk, NY
    • Steven Johnson - Economist, The Treasury Department's Office of Microeconomic Analysis, Washington, D.C.
    • Jeremy Losak - Assistant Professor, Department of Sport Management/Analytics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
    • Alexander Ray - Health Economist, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Woodlawn, MD
    • Kyle Rechard - Data Scientist, Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, IN
    • Narendra Regmi - Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, WI
    • Kelsey Roberts - Economist, Lewin Group, Falls Church, VA
    • Jacob Walloga - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
    • Chen Wang - Associate, PricewaterhouseCoopers, San Francisco, CA
    • Xiaosong "Andy" Wu - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
  • Students entering the job market from the ’17-’18 class
    • Yuekai Cheng - Tongan Investment, Shanghai, China
    • Maria Dragonova - Assistant Professor, Curry College, Milton, M.A.
    • Haobin "Bruce" Fan - Post-Doc Research Fellow, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
    • Yiheng Huang - Assistant Professor, Shenzhen University, China
    • Changshuai Li - Assistant Professor, College of Finance and Statistics, Hunan University, China
    • Richard Sessa - Consulting, Bella Private Markets, Boston, M.A.
    • Senad Sinanovic - Instructor, Ohio State University
    • Mahjuja Taznin - Assistant Professor, Alabama A&M University
  • Students entering the job market from the ’16-’17 class
    • Jordan Adamson - Research Associate (2-year position), Chapman University, Irvine, CA
    • Tim Bacon - Consulting, Matrix Economics, Boston, MA
    • Cesar Castellon - Economist, United Community Bank, Greenville, SC
    • Yucheng Jiang - Postdoctoral Researcher, People's Bank of China, Financial Research Institute, Beijing, China
    • Amanda Kerr - Assistant Professor, University of Evansville, Evansville, IN
    • Leah Kitashima - Consulting, Analysis Group, Dallas, TX
    • Huili Li - Model Validation Analyst, Ally Financial, Charlotte, NC
    • Peter Lorenz - Visiting Assistant Professor, University Central Arkansas, Conway
    • Abir Mandal – Lecturer, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
    • Gang Wang - Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Wooster, Wooster
  • Students entering the job market from the ’15-’16 class
    • Jacob Burgdorf - University of Louisville
    • Randy Cragun - Niagara University (tenure-track)
    • Alexander Fiore - Analysis Group - Dallas
    • Mallika Garg - University of Louisville
    • Shan Jiang - Integrated Financial Engineering Group (IFE) - Maryland
    • Ghanshyam Sharma - SUNY Oswego
    • Andrew Swanson - University of Wisconsin STOUT (tenure-track)
  • Students entering the job market from the ’14-’15 class
    • Anne Anders - University Houston Clear Lake (tenure-track)
    • Tim Bersak - Wofford College (tenure-track)
    • Anna Chorniy - Princeton post-doc
    • Meng Liu - MIT post-doc
    • Adam Millsap - Mercatus Center
    • Joseph Newhard - Private Enterprise Research Center (post-doc)
    • Jan Schiebler - Germany (Private Firm)
    • Yukun Sun - Wuhan University, China (tenure-track)
    • Di Wu - Freddie Mac
    • Danielle Zanzalari - Boston Fed (she had her pick of 3 regional FRBs and tenure-track jobs)
    • Huayong Zhu - JP Morgan (risk modeling)
  • Students entering the job market from the ’13-’14 class
    • Eyup Dogan - Abdullah Gul University
    • Richard Gearhart - Cal State Bakersfield (tenure-track)
    • Wesley Harris - Ernst and Young (started in 2015)
    • Janet Peckham - Food and Drug Administration
    • Margarita Portnykh - UC Santa Barbara (post-doc)
    • Lyudmyla Sonchak - SUNY-Oswego (tenure-track)
    • Caroline Swiger - Credit Risk Modeling Group
    • Zhixin Wang - Discover Financial Services
    • Ran Xie - Eisai
  • Students entering the job market from the ’12-’13 class
    • Wallace Campbell - Nardi Analytics
    • Matthew Clance - University of Pretoria (tenure-track)
    • Mila Kashcheeva - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization
    • Sine Kontbay - Dokuz Eylul University/Izmir-Turkey (now Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH (ZEW))
    • Laura Lamontagne - Christopher Newport University
  • Students entering the job market from the ’11-’12 class
    • Bing (Bill) Bai - Freddie Mac
    • Adam Blott - Montana State University Billings (tenure-track)
    • Richard Bruns - Food and Drug Administration
    • Matthew Clance - University of Pretoria (tenure-track)
    • Jared Huff - Center for Naval Analyses
    • Nancy Vogh Huff - Institute for Defense Analyses
    • Sherry Jensen - Rhodes College
    • Mila Kashcheeva - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization
    • Sarmistha Pal - University of Alabama Huntsville
    • Michael Scott - Oklahoma Christian University (tenure-track)
    • Katie Sobczyk Player - Furman University (tenure-track)
  • Students entering the job market from the ’10-’11 class
    • Inna Cintina - University of Hawaii (tenure-track)
    • Benjamin Compton - University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    • Liliana Danila - American University of Sharjah, UAE (tenure-track)
    • Projesh Ghosh - Lewin Group
    • Ovi Lasca - Capital One
John E. Walker Department of Economics
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