The following is a list of students currently enrolled in the PhD program.
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 |
| Qirui Cao |  |
Macroeconomics, International Finance | MA, UBC; BEcon, Shanghai Jiaotong University |
| 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 |
| Marc-Antoine Laflamme |  |
Public Economics, Microeconomic Theory | MA, University of Toronto; BSc, Universite de Montreal |
| Yingyi Liang |  |
Macroeconomics, Development | MA, UBC; BSc, University of Hong Kong |
| Raahil Madhok |  |
Development, Political Economy | MA, UBC; BA, McGill University |
| Max Norton | Development, Political Economy | MA, California State University Sacramento, BA, Columbia University | |
| Pedro Pessoa |  |
Development, Political Economy | MA & BA, PUC-Rio |
| Bianca Ravani Cecato |  |
Labour, Development | MA, PUC-Rio; BA, Fundacao Getulio Vargas |
| German Vega Acuna |  |
Development, Applied Microeconometrics | MA, UBC; BA, University of Piura |
| Tatiana Zarate Barrera |
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Development, Microeconometrics, Environmental Economics | MA, BA, & BSc, Universidad de los Andes |
2016 Entrance Cohort
| Name | Photo | Fields | Previous Degrees |
| Murilo Esteves de Santi | Development Economics, Labour Economics | MA, Fundacao Getulio Vargas; BA, Insper | |
| 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, Political Economy | 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 |  |
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 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 | |
| David Macdonald |  |
Microeconomic Theory | MA, UBC; BA, SFU |
| 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 |
2013 Entrance Cohort
| Name | Photo | Fields | Previous Degrees |
| Nathan Canen |
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Political Economy, Industrial Organization | MA & BA, Fundacao Getulio Vargas |
| Denis Kojevnikov | Econometrics, Micro Labour Economics | MA & BA, Tel Aviv University | |
| Jiayi Liu |  |
Labour, Behaviour Economics, Microeconomic Theory | MA, UBC; BA, Nanjing University |
| Benjamin Milner |  |
Economics of Education and Crime | MA, Queen’s; BA(Hons), Saskatchewan |
| Kim Nguyen |  |
Applied Micro Theory, Behavioural Economics, Health Economics | BA (Hons), University of Queensland |
| Rogerio Santarrosa |  |
Development, Behavioural/Experimental Economics, Political Economy | MA, Fundacao Getulio Vargas; BA, Unviersity of Sao Paulo |
| Gaelle Simard-Duplain | Labour, Development, Political Economy | MA, UBC; BA(Hons), Concordia | |
| Yin Chi Tam |  |
Micro Theory, Game Theory | MPhil, Chinese University of Hong Kong; BSocSc, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
2012 Entrance Cohort
| Name |
Photo | Fields | Previous Degrees |
| Alastair Fraser |  |
Environmental Economics, Energy Economics, International Trade | MA, Queen’s; MSc, Alberta; BSc(Hons), UVic |
| Joao Galindo da Fonseca |  |
Macroeconomics | MA, Toronto; BSc, Montreal |
| Bradley Hackinen |  |
Macroeconomics, Experimental Economics, Political Economy | BSc(Hons), UVic |
| Nouri Najjar |
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Environmental Policy, Environmental Economic Theory | MA, UBC; BSc(Hons) UVic |
| Jose Pulido Pescador |  |
Macroeconomics, International Finance | MSc & BA, Universidad Nacional de Colombia |
| Iain Snoddy |
Macroeconomics, Labour | BA, Trinity College Dublin |
2011 Entrance Cohort
| Name |
Photo | Fields | Previous Degrees |
| Coral Gonzalez Gutierrez |  |
Development, Labour, Environmental Economics | BA, ITAM |
| Jacob Schwartz |
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Econometrics | MA & BSc(Hons), UVic |
| Ruoying Wang |  |
Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, Labour | BSc, Tsinghua University |
2010 Entrance Cohort
| Name |
Photo | Fields | Previous Degrees |
| Anton Laptiev |  |
Empirical International Trade, Productivity Analysis, Industry Dynamics | MA, Central European University; Specialist, Nat’l Technical Univ; BSc, Kharkiv State Polytechnic |
2009 Entrance Cohort
| Name | Photo | Fields | Previous Degrees |
| Thomas Cornwall |
Development, Political Economy | MA, UBC; BA(Hons), SFU |