Job placements: Ph.D. in Applied Economics and Management

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Graduate students of the SC Johnson College of Business in Applied Economics and Management are actively recruited by U.S. and foreign universities for academic positions. They also hold high-profile positions in state and federal government agencies, international agencies, such as the World Bank and the United Nations, and at leading companies in the private and not-for-profit sectors.

Recent job placements: Ph.D. in Applied Economics

YearNamePositionOrganization
2025Sharan BanerjeePostdoctoral FellowKAPSARC School of Public Policy, Riyadh
2025Feng ChiAssistant Professor of EconomicsUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2025Xiaoying LiuPrincipal Quantitative ModelerCapital One
2025Michael MenesesPostdoctoral AssociateYale School of the Environment
2025Anh NguyenLecturerInternational University – VNUHCM
2025Shree SahaGlobal Agriculture Division, World BankWorld Bank, Young Professionals Program
2025Weiliang TanPostdoctoral Associate; Assistant Professor of EconomicsNational Bureau of Economic Research ; Claremont McKenna College
2025Tong WuResearch Scientist in Natural Resource EconomicsNatural Resources Institute Finland
2025Minhao YanResearch Data ScientistFreddie Mac
2024Leonel BorjaEconomistInterAmerican Development Bank
2024Tarana ChauhanPost-docBrown
2024Huiyi ChenAssistant ProfessorJames Madison
2024Seungmin LeePost-docNotre Dame
2024Mengwei LinManaging EconomistBerkeley Research Group
2024Yiding Mapost-docDTUM
2024Daniel MaggioAssistant ProfessorRutgers
2024Anna MalinovskayaPost-docPrinceton University
2024Trinh PhamAssistant ProfessorKDI School of Public Policy and Management (Korea)
2024Sergio PuertoPost-docCornell University
2024Vanisha SharmaPost-docUniversity of Washington
2024Dana SmithAssistant ProfessorHoly Cross
2024Binglin WangAssistant ProfessorNUS
2024Saleh ZakeriniaPost-docHarvard Digital Value Lab
2023Zhiyun LiEconomistUCLA Anderson Forecast
2023Zhengyuan WuSenior Data ScientistCitibank
2023Ye XianQuantitative ResearcherAcadian Asset Management
2023Muxi YangEconomistBates White Economic Consulting
2023Hui ZhouAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics University of Rhode Island
2022Ruyu ChenPostdoctoral FellowStanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
2022Tung DangPostdoctoral FellowSchool of Economics University of Sydney
2022Deyu RaoAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Economics Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2022Louis SearsEconomistU.S. Department of Transportation Volpe National Transportation Systems Center Corporate Average Fuel Economy Program
2022Steve WilcoxAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Applied Economics Utah State University
2022Yolanda XueApplied Scientist II under the Core Analytics and Sciences TeamUber
2021Ali AbbasEconomistInternational Monetary Fund
2021Anne ByrneResearch Agricultural EconomistUSDA Economic Research Service
2021Vidya Bharathi RajkumarAssistant ProfessorKrea University
2021Diego S. CardosoAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University
2021Yuanning LiangAssistant ProfessorPeking University
2021Shuyang SiAssistant ProfessorXi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
2021Joy WuPostdoctoral ResearcherLudwig-Maximilian University of Munich
2021Lin YangAssistant ProfessorHong Kong University of Science and Technology
2021Youwei YangDirector of Financial AnalyticsStoneX Group
2021D. Adeline YehResearch Agricultural EconomistUSDA Economic Research Service
2020Chia Hua LinPostdoctoral AssociateJohns Hopkins University
2020Margaret JodlowskiAssistant ProfessorOhio State University
2020Christina KortingAssistant ProfessorUniversity of Delaware
2020Matthew McGranaghanAssistant ProfessorUniversity of Delaware
2020Avralt-Od PurevjavPostdoctoral FellowUniversity of Bern
2020Armand SimResearch FellowMonash University
2020Shiuli VanajaAssistant ProfessorAzim Premji University
2019Xin GaoAssociateAnalysis Group
2019Maulik JagnaniPostdoctoral AssociateYale University
2019Rhiannon JerchAssistant ProfessorTemple University
2019Seolle ParkPostdoctoral FellowHarvard University
2019Jing QianRisk Management AssociateMorgan Stanley
2019Vidya VemireddyAssistant ProfessorIIMA
2018Jakina DebnamAssistant Professor of EconomicsAmherst College, Amherst, MA
2018Ryan FinsethEconomist/Air Quality SpecialistSouth Coast Air Quality Management District, CA State Gov.’t, Diamond Bar, CA
2018Oleg FirsinAssistant Professor of EconomicsUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
2018Juan Nicolas Hernandez-AguileraEarth Institute Postdoctoral FellowThe Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY
2018Erwin KnippenbergLead EconomistCooper/Smith, Washington, D.C.
2018Yanan LiAssistant Professor of EconomicsBeijing Normal University, Beijing, China
2018Linden McBrideAssistant Professor of EconomicsSt. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD
2018David MurphyAssistant Professor of EconomicsUniversity of Evansville, Schroeder School of Business, Evansville, IN
2018Steven OttoEconomistISO New England, Holyoke, MA
2018Kai WuAssistant Professor of FinanceCentral University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China
2018Jianwei XingAssistant ProfessorPeking University, Beijing, China
2017Jennifer CisseSenior Risk AdvisorUSAID, Washington, D.C.
2017Xiaoli FanAssistant ProfessorUniversity of Alberta, Canada
2017Jie LiResearch AssociateCornell University, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
2017Ellen McCulloughAssistant ProfessorUniversity of Georgia, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
2017Tanvi RaoResearch AssociateIMPAQ International, Washington, D.C.
2017Yiwei WangData AnalystCenter for Governmental Research
2017Di WuPrincipal ConsultantEdgeworth Economics, Washington, D.C.
2016Leah BevisAssistant ProfessorOhio State University, Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics
2016Justin ChoeEconomistGlobal Commodity Analysis Division, Office of Global Analysis, Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
2016Soumya GuptaPost Doctoral FellowTata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative
2016Richard KlotzAssistant ProfessorColgate University, Department of Economics
2016Andrew SimonsAssistant ProfessorFordham University, Department of Economics
2016Vidhya SoundararajanAssistant Professor, Economics and Social SciencesIndian Institute of Management Bangalore
2016Nadia StreletskayaAssistant ProfessorOregon State University, Applied Economics Department
2016Andrew WaxmanAssistant ProfessorArizona State University, School of Public Affairs
2015Dennis BeckerAssociateDean & Company
2015Samuel BellCo-Founder & CEOVitalite Zambia Limited
2015Julia BeraznevaAssistant ProfessorMiddlebury College
2015Teevrat GargAssistant ProfessorUniversity of California, San Diego
2015Hao LuSenior Quantitative AnalystPacific Gas & Electric Company
2015Pimbucha RusmevichientongAssistant ProfessorCalifornia State University
2015Parul SharmaFinancial EconomistU.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
2015Lin SunAVP Risk ManagementIndustrial and Commercial Bank of China
2015Joanna UptonPost-Doctoral AssociateDyson School, Cornell University
2015Jubo YanAssistant ProfessorNanyang Technological University