The following is a list of students currently enrolled in the PhD program.
2021 Entrance Cohort
| Name | Photo | Fields | Previous Degrees |
| Daniel Araújo |  |
Development Economics, Economic History, Applied Microeconomics | MA & BA, Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE, Brazil) |
| Agustín Beltrán |  |
Environmental, Applied Microeconomics | MA & BA, ITAM, Mexico City |
| Daniel Guzmán |  |
Macroeconomics, Labour, Economics of Education | MA & BA (Cum Laude), Universidad de los Andes; MSc, BSc (Hons.) & BSc (Hons.), Universidad del Rosario |
| Dashleen Kaur |  |
Development and Environmental Economics, Political Economy | MA & BA (Hons.), University of Delhi |
| Prerna Kundu |  |
Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics | MA, University of Delhi; BA (Hons.), Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi |
| Étienne Latulippe |  |
Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics | MA, Queen’s University; BSc (Hons.), University of Montreal |
Uyseok Lee  |
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Development, Applied Microeconomics, Labor | MA, UBC; BIE, UBC |
| Branko Malaver-Vojvodic |
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Labour, Development, Applied Econometrics | BA, University of Ottawa |
| Sebastian Melo Martin |  |
Labour, International Trade, Development | MA & BA, Universidad de los Andes |
| Olaitan Ogunnote |  |
Economic Development and Technological Change, Climate Change, International Trade and Policy | MA & BComm (Hons.), University of Guelph |
| Xiomara Pulido |  |
Applied Microeconomics, Development | MA & BA, Universidad de los Andes |
| Diana Ricciulli-Marín |  |
Political Economy, Economic History, Development Economics | BA & MA, Universidad de los Andes |
| Ratzanyel Rincón |  |
Labor Economics, Development, Applied Microeconometrics, Machine Learning | MA, El Colegio de México; BSc, Instituto Politécnico Nacional |
| Carla Srebot |  |
Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics, Political Economy | MA, Universidad de San Andrés; BA, Universidad del Pacífico |
| Hanqi Wang |  |
Theoretical and Applied Econometrics, Empirical IO, Accounting, Corporate Finance | MA, UBC; BMOS, King’s University College, Western University |
2020 Entrance Cohort
| Name | Photo | Fields | Previous Degrees |
| Camila Ayala |  |
Development, Applied Microeconomics | MA & BA, Universidad de los Andes |
| Pierre-Loup Beauregard |  |
Economics of Education, Labour, Public Economics | MA, Queen’s University; BSc, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) |
| Sara Benetti |  |
Development Economics, Political Economy | Bocconi University |
| Kate Bleakley | MA, UC Denver | ||
| Igor Carreira |  |
Macroeconomics, Applied Microeconomics | MA & BA, Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV/EPGE) |
| Gabriela Diniz |  |
Applied Microeconomics, Development | BA, PUC-Rio |
| William Duan |  |
Political Economy, Games on Network, Network Formation Games, and Coordination Games | MA, UBC |
| Yeow Chong Goh |  |
Labour | MSc, The London School of Economics and Political Science; BSc, The University of Warwick |
| Kisho Hoshi |  |
Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics | MA & BA, Hitotsubashi University |
| Vibhu Pratyush |  |
Political Economy, Macroeconomics, Econometrics | MA, UBC |
| Bernardo Ribeiro |  |
Applied Microeconomics, Development and Political Economy | MA, PUC-Rio; BA, PUC-Rio |
| Oliver Vogt |  |
International Economics, Macroeconomics | MA, Columbia University; BA, University of St. Gallen |
| Zhaoxuan Wang |  |
Labor, Development, Economic History | MA, UBC; BA, Fudan University |
| Shiming Wu |  |
Financial Economics, Labor Economics | MSc, UBC; BEcon, Nankai University |
| Yuxuan Wu |  |
Labour, International Trade, Development | MA, Johns Hopkins University |
2019 Entrance Cohort
| Name | Photo | Fields | Previous Degrees |
| Spreeha Aggarwal |  |
Development and applied microeconomics | MA, University of Oxford |
| Daniel Jaramillo Calderon |  |
Applied econometrics, development | MA, UBC |
| Yau Tung Thomas Chan |  |
Econometrics and game theory | MA, UBC |
| Sudipta Ghosh |  |
Macroeconomics, international finance | MA, Indira Gandhi Institution of Development Research |
| Emma Kinakin |  |
Applied microeconomics, environmental economics, labour economics | MA, Queen’s University |
| Giulia Lo Forte |  |
International trade, organizational economics | MA, Bocconi University |
| Yupei Ma |  |
Development economics, applied microeconomics | BA (Econ and Management of Agriculture and Forest), Renmin University |
| Miguel (Pascuel) Plotkin |  |
Labour, Political Economy and Development | MA, University de San Andres |
| Jan Rosa |  |
Macroeconomics, computational economics | University Pantheon-Sorbonne |
| Aditi Singh |  |
Political Economy, Public Economics | |
| Pablo Valenzuela |  |
Applied microeconomics with a focus on labour, development and political economy | MA, Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Chile |
2018 Entrance Cohort
| Name | Photo | Fields | Previous Degrees |
| Deivis Angeli |  |
Behavioural Economics, Applied Microeconomics | MA, Escola de Economia de Sao Paulo; BA, Universidade de Sao Paulo |
| Tiago Bonomo |  |
Labour, Development, Applied Microeconomics | MA & BA, Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV/EPGE) |
| Paul Corcuera |  |
Labour, Applied Econometrics | MA, UBC; BA, Universidad de Piura |
| Yige Duan |
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Labour, Applied Econometrics | MA, National University of Singapore; BA, Fudan University |
| Francisco Eslava |  |
Political Economy, Development | MA & BA, Universidad de los Andes |
| Sebastian Gomez Cardona |
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Macroeconomics, International Finance | MSc, LSE; MSc & BSc, Universidad EAFIT |
| Xiaojun Guan |  |
Macroeconomics, Labour, Development | MA, UBC; BA, New York University |
| Mila Markevych |  |
Labour, Applied Econometrics | MA, University of Saskatchewan; BA, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy |
| Fernando Secco |  |
Political Economy, Development | MA & BA, PUC-Rio |
| Ieda Matavelli |  |
Behavioral and Development Economics | MA, University of Sao Paulo; BA, Insper |
| Allen Peters |  |
Macroeconomics, Environmental Economics | MA, University of Victoria; MSc, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; BSc, University of Alberta |
| Pooya Rashidi Ravari |  |
Political Economy | MSc & BSc, Sharif University of Technology |
| Federico Ricca |  |
Political Economy, Applied Microeconomics | MSc & BSc, Bocconi University |
| Luis Alejandro Rojas-Bernal |  |
Macroeconomic Theory, Financial Macroeconomics, Monetary Theory, Econometrics | MA & BA in Economics, Universidad de Los Andes; BA in Law, Universidad de Los Andes |
| Amirhossein Tavakoli |  |
Empirical IO, Energy Economics, Health Economics | MSc & BSc, Sharif University of Technology |
2017 Entrance Cohort
| Name | Photo | Fields | Previous Degrees |
| Ali Adibnia |  |
Macroeconomics | MSc & BSc, Sharif University of Technology |
| Sejin Ahn |  |
Economic Measurement, Environmental Economics | MA, UBC; BA, Sogang University |
| Gustavo Albuquerque |  |
Applied Microeconomics, economics of crime | MA, PUC-Rio; BA, Universidade Federal Fluminense |
| Gabriel Brown |  |
Development Economics | MA & BSc, University of Toronto |
| Joshua Catalano | IO, Public Economics | BA, University of Colorado at Boulder | |
| Mahdi Ebrahimikahou |
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Macroeconomics | MSc, University of Calgary; BSc, Sharif University of Technology |
| Leopoldo Gutierre |  |
Financial Development, Political Economy, Organizational Economics | MA & BA, University of Sao Paulo |
| Sam Gyetvay |  |
Labour | MA, Queen’s University; BA, McGill University |
| Anubhav Jha |  |
Behavioral & Experimental Economics, Micro Theory, Econometric Theory | MSc, Indian Statistical Institute; BA(Hons) Delhi University |
| Ali Karimirad |  |
Macroeconomics | MSc, Sharif University of Technology; BSc, Amirkabir University of Technology |
| Yingyi Liang |  |
Macroeconomics, Development | MA, UBC; BSc, University of Hong Kong |
| Max Norton |  |
Public Finance, Urban Economics, Subjective Wellbeing | MA, California State University Sacramento, BA, Columbia University |
| Pedro Pessoa |  |
Development, Political Economy | MA & BA, PUC-Rio |
| German Vega Acuna |  |
Development, Applied Microeconometrics | MA, UBC; BA, University of Piura |
2016 Entrance Cohort
| Name | Photo | Fields | Previous Degrees |
| Nadhanael Gemaliel Vimala |  |
Macroeconomics | MPhil, Jawaharlal Nehru University; MA & BA, University of Kerala |
| Arkadev Ghosh |  |
Development Economics, Micro Theory | MSc, London School of Economics; MA (Hons), University of Edinburgh |
| Federico Guzman |  |
Macroeconomics, Trade, Economic Growth | MA, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; BA, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman |
| Leo Qian Li Ma |  |
Empirical Microeconomics, Labour & Energy Economics | MA, University of Toronto; BA, UBC |
| Ronit Mukherji |  |
Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Public Economics | MSc, University of Warwick; BSc, Presidency College (University of Calcutta) |
| Clemens Possnig |  |
Game Theory, Econometrics | MSc, Institute for Advanced Studies; BA, University of Graz |
Marcelo Sacchi de Carvalho  |
Applied Microeconomics, Political Economy | MA & BA, University of Sao Paulo | |
| Catherine Van Der List |  |
Labour | BA, Middlebury College |
| Dongxiao Zhang |  |
International Economics, Macroeconomics | BA, UBC |
2015 Entrance Cohort
| Name | Photo | Fields | Previous Degrees |
| Davide Alonzo |  |
Macroeconomics, Financial Economics | Magistrale & Laurea, LUISS Guido Carli |
| Anand Chopra |  |
Macroeconomics | MA, Delhi School of Economics; BSc(Hons), University of Calcutta |
| Pablo Gutierrez Cubillos |  |
Public Finance, Inequality Measurement, Natural Resources Economics | Magister & Licenciado, University of Chile |
| Jasmine Yu Hao |  |
Econometrics | MA , UBC; BA(Hons), Waterloo; BBA, Xiamen University |
| Jeffrey Hicks |
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Public Finance, Empirical Public Economics | MA, Queen’s; BA(Hons), Mount Allison |
| Sev Chenyu Hou |  |
Macroeconomics | MA, SFU; BA, Fudan University |
| Hao Li |  |
Public Economics, Health Economics, Labour Economics | MA, UBC; BA, Southwestern University of Finance & Economics |
| Neil Lloyd |
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Labour Economics | MA, UBC; BSocSc(Hons), University of Cape Town |
| Vinicius Pecanha |  |
Political Economy, Development Economics | MA, Fundacao Getulio Vargas; BA, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro |
| Juan Felipe Riano Rodriguez |
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Political Economy, Economic Development & Empirical Methods | MA, BA, BSc, Universidad de los Andes |
| Hugh Shiplett |  |
Applied Econometrics, Urban/Regional Economics, Political Economy | MA, Queen’s; BA, University of Minnesota |
2014 Entrance Cohort
| Name | Photo | Fields | Previous Degrees |
| Matthew Courchene |
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Labour, Applied Econometrics | MA & BSc(Hons), Queen’s University |
| Tsenguun Ekhbataar |  |
Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics | MPP, University of Tokyo; BA, Osaka University |
| Nicolas Franz Pattilo |  |
Macroeconomics, International Finance | MA, UBC; BA, University of Chile |
| Da Kang |  |
International Economics, Monetary Economics | MA & BSc, UBC |
| Benjamin Milner |  |
Economics of Education and Crime | MA, Queen’s; BA(Hons), Saskatchewan |
| Aruni Mitra |  |
Macroeconomics, Development | MSc, Indian Statistical Institute; BSc, St. Xavier College-University of Calcutta |
| Adlai Newson |
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Political Economy, Applied Microeconomics | BA, UBC |
| Mengying Wei |  |
Macroeconomics, International Finance | MA, UBC; BSc, University of Amsterdam |
| Michael Wiebe |
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Political Economy, Development | MA, Western University; BSc, University of Manitoba |
Upper Year Cohort
| Name | Photo | Fields | Previous Degrees |
| Coral Gonzalez Gutierrez |  |
Development, Labour, Environmental Economics | BA, ITAM |
| David Macdonald |  |
Law and Economics, Applied Econometrics, Public Economics | MA, UBC; BA, SFU |