PhD Job Market Placement
The market for PhD economists is strong, with ample job opportunities at universities, international organizations, government agencies, and the private sector.
At the Vancouver School of Economics, we dedicate ourselves to ensuring our students’ success in the job market. The following are recent job market candidates and their initial placement:
| Name | Institution | Country | Position |
| Gustavo Albuquerque | GiveWell | USA | Senior Research Associate |
| Mahdi Ebrahimi Kahou | Bowdoin College | USA | Assistant Professor |
| Federico Guzman | University of Manitoba | Canada | Assistant Professor |
| Anubhav Jha | Department of Politics, Princeton University | USA | Postdoctoral Associate |
| Catherine van der List | University of Essex | UK | Lecturer (Assistant Professor) |
| Clemens Possnig | University of Waterloo | Canada | Assistant Professor |
| Marcelo Sacchi de Carvalho | *TBP | *TBP | *TBP |
| Anand Chopra | University of Liverpool Management School | UK | Lecturer (Assistant Professor) |
| Name | Institution | Country | Position |
| Nadhaneal Gemaliel Vimala | Reserve Bank of India | India | Manager |
| Arkadev Ghosh | Institute on Behavior and Inequality (2022-2023) / Duke University, Department of Economics (2023 onwards) | Bonn, Germany / USA | Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2023) / Assistant Professor (2023 onwards) |
| Leo Ma | Moody's Analytics | USA | Assistant Director |
| Ronit Mukherji | Ashoka University, Dept. of Economics | India | Assistant Professor |
| Juan Felipe Riaño | Stanford University, King Center on Global Development (2022-2023) / Georgetown University, Department of Economics (2023 onwards) | USA | Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2023) / Assistant Professor (2023 onwards) |
| Dongxiao Zhang | Veeva Systems Inc. | Canada | Economist |
| Name | Institution | Country | Position |
| Davide Alonzo | Université de Montréal, Dept. of Economics | Canada | Assistant Professor |
| Anand Chopra | IIT Kanpur, Dept. of Economic Sciences | India | Assistant Professor |
| Jasmine Hao | University of Hong Kong, Business School | | Assistant Professor |
| Chenyu Hou | Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, School of Management and Economics | China | Assistant Professor |
| Natasha Kang | University of Victoria | Canada | Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Neil Lloyd | University of Warwick, Dept. of Economics | England | Teaching Fellow |
| David Macdonald | Aalto University | Finland | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Name | Institution | Country | Position |
| Tsenguune Ekhbaatar | Novantas | Canada | Senior Machine Learning Engineer |
| Benjamin Milner | University of Alberta, Dept. of Economics | Canada | Assistant Professor |
| Aruni Mitra | European University Institute, Postdoc (2020-21),
University of Manchester, Dept. of Economics (2021-onwards) | Italy (2020-21),
UK (2021-onwards) | Postdoc (2020-21),
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) (2021-onwards) |
| Yin Chi Tam | East China University of Science & Technology, The Oliver Hart Research Center of Contracts and Governance | China | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| Mengying Wei | University of International Business and Economics, Finance Dept. | China | Assistant Professor |
| Name | Institution | Country | Position |
| Brad Hackinen | Western University, Ivey Business School | Canada | Assistant Professor |
| Denis Koievnikov | Tilburg University | Netherlands | Assistant Professor |
| Rogerio Bianchi Santarrosa | Insper Institute of Education and Research | Brazil | Assistant Professor |
| Gaëlle Simard-Duplain | HEC Montreal, Retirement and Savings Institute | Canada | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Ian Snoddy | Analysis Group | Canada | Economist |
| Lanny Zrill | HEC Montreal | Canada | Assistant Professor |
| Name | Institution | Country | Position |
| Joao Galindo da Fonseca | Universite de Montreal | Canada | Assistant Professor |
| Nouri Najjar | Western University | Canada | Assistant Professor |
| Jose Pulido | Central Bank of Colombia | Colombia | Economist |
| Jacob Schwartz | University of Haifa | Israel | Assistant Professor |
| Ruoying Wang | LinkedIn | USA | Data Scientist |
| Nathan Canen | University of Houston | USA | Assistant Professor |
| Thomas Cornwall | Analysis Group | Canada | Economist |
| Alastair Fraser | University of Sydney | Australia | Assistant Professor |
| Name | Institution | Country | Position |
| Jutong Pan | Analysis Group | Canada | Economist |
| Pierluca Pannella | Fundação Getulio Vargas | Brazil | Assistant Professor |
| Anujit Chakraborty | University of California, Davis | USA | Assistant Professor |
| Jonathan Graves | University of British Columbia | Canada | Instructor (tenure track) |
| Timea Molnar | Analysis Group | Canada | Economist |
| Name | Institution | Country | Position |
| Yawen Liang | Xiamen University | China | Assistant Professor |
| Oscar Becerra | Universidad de los Andes | Colombia | Assistant Professor |
| Colin Caines | Federal Reserve Board | USA | Economist |
| Evan Calford | Purdue University | USA | Assistant Professor |
| Guidon Fenig | University of Saskatchewan | Canada | Assistant Professor |
| Anderson Frey | University of Rochester | USA | Assistant Professor |
| Wendy Kei | Statistics Canada | Canada | Economist |
| Bingjing Li | National University of Singapore | Singapore | Assistant Professor |
| Bipasha Maity | Osaka University | Japan | Research Fellow |
| Daniel Shack | Analysis Group | Canada | Economist |
| Name | Institution | Country | Position |
| Brant Abbott | Queen’s University | Canada | Assistant Professor |
| Shampa Bhattacharjee | Shiv Nadar University | India | Lecturer |
| Zhe Chen | University of International Business and Economics | China | Assistant Professor |
| Jacob Cosman | Johns Hopkins University | USA | Assistant Professor |
| Alix Duhaime-Ross | Analysis Group | Canada | Economist |
| Dana Galizia | Carleton University | Canada | Assistant Professor |
| Hugo Jales | Syracuse University | USA | Assistant Professor |
| Arka Roy Chaudhuri | Indian Statistical Institute | India | Lecturer cum Post-Doctoral Fellow |
| Maria Tito | Federal Reserve Board | USA | Economist |
| Guoshi Tong | Renmin University | China | Assistant Professor |
| Tzu-Ting Yang | Academia Sinica | Taiwan | Assistant Professor |
| Zhengfei Yu | Tsukuba University | Japan | Assistant Professor |
| Name | Institution | Country | Position |
| Chad Kendall | University of Southern California | USA | Assistant Professor |
| Jun Ma | Renmin University of China | China | Assistant Professor |
| Lori Timmins | Mathematica | USA | Economist |
| Mingzhi Wang | University of International Business and Economics | China | Assistant Professor |
| Jinwen Xu | Concordia University | Canada | Lecturer |
| Jeanne Tschopp | Laval University | Canada | Assistant Professor |
| Haimin Zhang | Analysis Group | Canada | Economist |
| Name | Institution | Country | Position |
| Donna Feir | University of Victoria | Canada | Assistant Professor |
| David Freeman | Simon Fraser University | Canada | Assistant Professor |
| Xiaodan Gao | National University of Singapore | Singapore | Assistant Professor |
| Andrew Hill | University of South Carolina | USA | Assistant Professor |
| Terri Kneeland | University College London | UK | Assistant Professor |
| Cristian Troncoso-Valverde | Universidad Diego Portales | Chile | Assistant Professor |
| Weina Zhou | Dalhousie University | Canada | Assistant Professor |
| Name | Institution | Country | Position |
| Nishant Chadha | Shiv Nadar University | India | Assistant Professor |
| Guido Matias Cortes | University of Manchester | UK | Assistant Professor |
| Serdar Kebaca | Bank of Canada | Canada | Economist |
| Changhua Yu | University of International Business and Economics | China | Assistant Professor |
| Na Zhang | Fudan University | China | Assistant Professor |
| Name | Institution | Country | Position |
| Thomas Fujiwara | Princeton University | USA | Assistant Professor |
| Ce Huang | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | China | Assistant Professor |
| Marcos Agurto | Universidad de Piura | Peru | Assistant Professor |
| Jonathan Goyette | Université de Sherbrooke | Canada | Assistant Professor |
| German Pupato | Fundação Getulio Vargas | Brazil | Assistant Professor |
| Laura Turner | University of Toronto | Canada | Assistant Professor |