BIE grad pursues career in consulting
BIE grad Charles Acheampong chose the program because of its well-respected faculty and its ambitious student cohort.
BIE program prepared grad to tackle law school
For BIE grad Ryan Wong, who is now studying law, the BIE program “is so unique and it wasn’t offered anywhere else.”
Ballerina turned BIE grad speaks about her UBC experience
A career-ending injury as a ballerina led Chihiro Tanigawa to find a new passion in international economics at UBC.
Yazan Al-Asad (BIE’21)
For Al-Asad, the BIE program offered him a technical, practical, and analytical skillset. He now uses what he learned in the BIE program working in data analysis for Uber in Toronto.
Carla Colina Cortez (BIE’21)
For Colina Cortez, studying international economics was an opportunity to use the scientific method to satisfy her deep curiousity of the world. She applies the same techniques now as a researcher at UChicago’s Booth School of Business.
Jenny Liu (BIE’21)
For Liu, the BIE program broadened her perspective to a truly global one; a skill she’s taken with her as she pursues graduate studies in urban tech at Cornell University in New York City.
Kaan Yolsever (BIE ’19)
Kaan Yolsever (’19) speaks about his interests within economics, how he is exploring that in grad school, and his time at the BIE program.