Alumni

Paolo Abarcar
Senior Economist
Mathematica
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2016

Farzana Afridi
Professor
Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2006

Luis Alejos
Economist
Fiscal Management Division, Inter-American Development Bank
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2018

James Allen
Associate Research Fellow
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2023

Kate Ambler
Senior Research Fellow
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2013

Vybhavi Balasundharam
Economist
Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2019

Luis Baldomero-Quintana
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, William & Mary
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2020

Emily Beam
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, University of Vermont
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2013

Robert Beckemeyer
Predoctoral Scholar
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
BA Graduation Year: 2024

Rohan Bhargava
Predoctoral Scholar
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
BA Graduation Year: 2024

Nzinga Broussard
Senior Director
Analytics, Global Innovation Fund
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2008

Lasse Brune
Research Assistant Professor
Global Poverty Research Lab, Northwestern University
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2014

Traviss Cassidy
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, Finance, and Legal Studies, University of Alabama
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2018

Jon Denton-Schneider
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, Clark University
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2022

Taryn Dinkelman
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2008

Moustafa El-Kashlan
Ph.D. Student
Department of Economics, University of Chicago
BA Graduation Year: 2019

Anne Fitzpatrick
Associate Professor
Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics Department, The Ohio State University
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2015

Catalina Franco
Researcher
Center for Applied Research (SNF) and FAIR, NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2017

Robert Garlick
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, Duke University
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2013

Susan Godlonton
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, Williams College
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2013

Jessica Goldberg
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, University of Maryland
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2011

Bhanu Gupta
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, Ashoka University
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2020

Mónica Hernández Flórez
Assistant Professor
Universidad EAFIT (Colombia)
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2017

Maximilian Huppertz
Research Economist
Bank of England
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2024

Prachi Jain
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, Loyola Marymount University
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2016

Jason Kerwin
McKnight Land-Grant Professor
Applied Economics, University of Minnesota
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2015

Salma Khalid
Economist
International Monetary Fund
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2017

Gaurav Khanna
Assistant Professor
School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2016

Ruoran Li
Ph.D. Student
Department of Marketing, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
BA Graduation Year: 2024

Jinghao Liu
Masters Student
Department of Economics, University of Toronto
BA Graduation Year: 2024

Meera Mahadevan
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2019

Parag Mahajan
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, University of Delaware
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2020

Nicholas Martens
Predoctoral Scholar
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
BA Graduation Year: 2024

Ryan McWay
Ph.D. Student
Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota
Predoc Years: 2020-2022

Aakash Mohpal
Senior Economist
The World Bank
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2021

Russell Morton
Assistant Professor
Simon School of Business, University of Rochester
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2024

Emir Murathanoglu
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, Oberlin College
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2024

Rita Neves
Ph.D. Student
Department of Economics, Nova University, Lisbon
Predoc Years: 2022-24

Johannes Norling
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, Mount Holyoke College
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2016

Michael Olabisi
Assistant Professor
Department of Community Sustainability (CSUS) and Department of Agricultural Food and Resource Economics (AFRE), Michigan State University
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2015

Alexander Persaud
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, University of Richmond
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2017

Todd Pugatch
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, Oregon State University
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2011

Vimal Ranchhod
Chief Research Officer
Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2007

Nico Ravanilla
Assistant Professor
School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2015

Obeid Ur Rehman
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, Ryerson University
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2021

Hadin Sayed
Predoctoral Scholar
University of Notre Dame
BA Graduation Year: 2024

Ajay Shenoy
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2014

Xinzheng Shi
Associate Professor
School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2009

Yu Shi
Ph.D. Student
Department of Economics, Yale University
BA Graduation Year: 2024

Slesh A. Shrestha
Independent Researcher
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2012

Divya Solomon
Postdoctoral Fellow
Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, Cornell University

Kwasi Gyabaa Tabiri
Ph.D. Student
Department of Economics, McGill University
Predoc Years: 2020-2022

Jared Stolove
Ph.D. Student
Department of Economics, Yale University
BA Graduation Year: 2020

Shuqiao Sun
Economist
Human Development Practice Group, The World Bank
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2020

Caroline Theoharides
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, Amherst College
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2014

Tejaswi Velayudhan
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, UC Irvine
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2019

Yuqing Wang
Ph.D. Student
Department of Economics, University of Michigan
BA Graduation Year: 2023

Huayu Xu
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics in National School of Development and ISSCAD, Peking University
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2020

Hang Yu
Assistant Professor
National School of Development, Peking University
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2020

Laura Zimmermann
Associate Professor
Department of Economics and the Department of International Affairs, University of Georgia
Ph.D. Graduation Year: 2014

Yvette Zhang
Ph.D. Student
Department of Economics, Yale University
BA Graduation Year: 2024