Job Placements: MS & PhD in Applied Economics
Graduate students of the Charles H. Dyson School of 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 PhD Job Placements
| Year | Name | Position | University / Agency / Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Leonel Borja | Economist | InterAmerican Development Bank |
| 2024 | Tarana Chauhan | Post-doc | Brown |
| 2024 | Huiyi Chen | Assistant Professor | James Madison |
| 2024 | Seungmin Lee | Post-doc | Notre Dame |
| 2024 | Mengwei Lin | Managing Economist | Berkeley Research Group |
| 2024 | Yiding Ma | post-doc | DTUM |
| 2024 | Daniel Maggio | Assistant Professor | Rutgers |
| 2024 | Anna Malinovskaya | Post-doc | Princeton University |
| 2024 | Trinh Pham | Assistant Professor | KDI School of Public Policy and Management (Korea) |
| 2024 | Sergio Puerto | Post-doc | Cornell University |
| 2024 | Vanisha Sharma | Post-doc | University of Washington |
| 2024 | Dana Smith | Assistant Professor | Holy Cross |
| 2024 | Binglin Wang | Assistant Professor | NUS |
| 2024 | Saleh Zakerinia | Post-doc | Harvard Digital Value Lab |
| 2023 | Ye Xian | Quantitative Researcher | Acadian Asset Management |
| 2023 | Muxi Yang | Economist | Bates White Economic Consulting |
| 2023 | Zhiyun Li | Economist | UCLA Anderson Forecast |
| 2023 | Hui Zhou | Assistant Professor | Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics University of Rhode Island |
| 2023 | Zhengyuan Wu | Senior Data Scientist | Citibank |
| 2022 | Deyu Rao | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| 2022 | Steve Wilcox | Assistant Professor | Department of Applied Economics Utah State University |
| 2022 | Yolanda Xue | Applied Scientist II under the Core Analytics and Sciences Team | Uber |
| 2022 | Louis Sears | Economist | U.S. Department of Transportation Volpe National Transportation Systems Center Corporate Average Fuel Economy Program |
| 2022 | Tung Dang | Postdoctoral Fellow | School of Economics University of Sydney |
| 2022 | Ruyu Chen | Postdoctoral Fellow | Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence |
| 2021 | Ali Abbas | Economist | International Monetary Fund |
| 2021 | Anne Byrne | Research Agricultural Economist | USDA Economic Research Service |
| 2021 | D. Adeline Yeh | Research Agricultural Economist | USDA Economic Research Service |
| 2021 | Diego S. Cardoso | Assistant Professor | Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University |
| 2021 | Joy Wu | Postdoctoral Researcher | Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich |
| 2021 | Lin Yang | Assistant Professor | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| 2021 | Shuyang Si | Assistant Professor | Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University |
| 2021 | Vidya Bharathi Rajkumar | Assistant Professor | Krea University |
| 2021 | Yuanning Liang | Assistant Professor | Peking University |
| 2021 | Youwei Yang | Director of Financial Analytics | StoneX Group |
| 2020 | Armand Sim | Research Fellow | Monash University |
| 2020 | Avralt-Od Purevjav | Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Bern |
| 2020 | Margaret Jodlowski | Assistant Professor | Ohio State University |
| 2020 | Chia Hua Lin | Postdoctoral Associate | Johns Hopkins University |
| 2020 | Christina Korting | Assistant Professor | University of Delaware |
| 2020 | Matthew McGranaghan | Assistant Professor | University of Delaware |
| 2020 | Shiuli Vanaja | Assistant Professor | Azim Premji University |
| 2019 | Maulik Jagnani | Postdoctoral Associate | Yale University |
| 2019 | Rhiannon Jerch | Assistant Professor | Temple University |
| 2019 | Seolle Park | Postdoctoral Fellow | Harvard University |
| 2019 | Jing Qian | Risk Management Associate | Morgan Stanley |
| 2019 | Vidya Vemireddy | Assistant Professor | IIMA |
| 2019 | Xin Gao | Associate | Analysis Group |
| 2018 | Jakina Debnam | Assistant Professor of Economics | Amherst College, Amherst, MA |
| 2018 | Ryan Finseth | Economist/Air Quality Specialist | South Coast Air Quality Management District, CA State Gov.’t, Diamond Bar, CA |
| 2018 | Oleg Firsin | Assistant Professor of Economics | University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD |
| 2018 | Juan Nicolas Hernandez-Aguilera | Earth Institute Postdoctoral Fellow | The Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY |
| 2018 | Erwin Knippenberg | Lead Economist | Cooper/Smith, Washington, D.C. |
| 2018 | Yanan Li | Assistant Professor of Economics | Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China |
| 2018 | Linden McBride | Assistant Professor of Economics | St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD |
| 2018 | David Murphy | Assistant Professor of Economics | University of Evansville, Schroeder School of Business, Evansville, IN |
| 2018 | Steven Otto | Economist | ISO New England, Holyoke, MA |
| 2018 | Kai Wu | Assistant Professor of Finance | Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China |
| 2018 | Jianwei Xing | Assistant Professor | Peking University, Beijing, China |
| 2017 | Jennifer Cisse | Senior Risk Advisor | USAID, Washington, D.C. |
| 2017 | Xiaoli Fan | Assistant Professor | University of Alberta, Canada |
| 2017 | Tanvi Rao | Research Associate | IMPAQ International, Washington, D.C. |
| 2017 | Di Wu | Principal Consultant | Edgeworth Economics, Washington, D.C. |
| 2017 | Jie Li | Research Associate | Cornell University, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management |
| 2017 | Ellen McCullough | Assistant Professor | University of Georgia, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics |
| 2017 | Yiwei Wang | Data Analyst | Center for Governmental Research |
| 2016 | Leah Bevis | Assistant Professor | Ohio State University, Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics |
| 2016 | Justin Choe | Economist | Global Commodity Analysis Division, Office of Global Analysis, Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture |
| 2016 | Richard Klotz | Assistant Professor | Colgate University, Department of Economics |
| 2016 | Andrew Simons | Assistant Professor | Fordham University, Department of Economics |
| 2016 | Vidhya Soundararajan | Assistant Professor, Economics and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management Bangalore |
| 2016 | Nadia Streletskaya | Assistant Professor | Oregon State University, Applied Economics Department |
| 2016 | Soumya Gupta | Post Doctoral Fellow | Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative |
| 2016 | Andrew Waxman | Assistant Professor | Arizona State University, School of Public Affairs |
| 2015 | Pimbucha Rusmevichientong | Assistant Professor | California State University |
| 2015 | Hao Lu | Senior Quantitative Analyst | Pacific Gas & Electric Company |
| 2015 | Teevrat Garg | Assistant Professor | University of California, San Diego |
| 2015 | Parul Sharma | Financial Economist | U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission |
| 2015 | Jubo Yan | Assistant Professor | Nanyang Technological University |
| 2015 | Dennis Becker | Associate | Dean & Company |
| 2015 | Julia Berazneva | Assistant Professor | Middlebury College |
| 2015 | Samuel Bell | Co-Founder & CEO | Vitalite Zambia Limited |
| 2015 | Lin Sun | AVP Risk Management | Industrial and Commercial Bank of China |
| 2015 | Joanna Upton | Post-Doctoral Associate | Dyson School, Cornell University |
| 2014 | Shadi Atallah | Assistant Professor | Purdue University |
| 2014 | Catalina Herrera-Almanza | Assistant Professor | Northeastern University |
| 2014 | Elaine Hill | Assistant Professor | University of Rochester |
| 2014 | Nathaniel Jensen | Post-Doctoral Associate | Dyson School, Cornell University |
| 2014 | Woo Young Jeon | Associate Research Fellow | Korea Energy Economics Institute |
| 2014 | Romi Kher | Post-Doctoral Associate | Dyson School, Cornell University |
| 2014 | Joel Landry | Assistant Professor | Pennsylvania State University |
| 2014 | Benjamin Leard | Fellow | Resources for the Future |
| 2014 | Adrian Lopes | Assistant Professor | American University of Sharjah, Department of Economics |
| 2014 | Yu Qin | Assistant Professor | National University of Singapore |
| 2014 | Kira Villa | Assistant Professor | University of New Mexico |
| 2014 | Chayanee Chawanote | Assistant Professor | Thammasat University |
| 2014 | Jonathan Dressler | Associate Director | MetLife Agricultural Investments |
| 2013 | Yasushi Taira | Deputy Director | Japan International Cooperation Agency |
| 2013 | Dusan Drabik | Post-Doctoral Associate | European Commission |
| 2013 | Kristen Cooper | Assistant Professor | Gordon College |
| 2013 | Aurelie Harou | Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resource Sciences | McGill University, Canada |
| 2013 | Yusi Ouyang | Assistant Professor | University of Tulsa |
| 2013 | Leslie Verteramo Chiu | Post-Doctoral Associate | Dyson School, Cornell University |
| 2012 | Jaesung Cho | Post-Doctoral Research Associate | Texas A&M AgriLife |
| 2012 | Jung Youn Mo | Associate Research Fellow | Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade |
| 2012 | Sivalai Vararuth | Vice President | Siam Commercial Bank |
| 2012 | Paitoon Wongsasutthikul | Managing Director | Agrowealth Co. |
| 2012 | Xi Chen | Assistant Professor | Yale School of Public Health |
| 2012 | Ying Cao | Assistant Professor | University of Guelph |
| 2012 | Alberto Lamadrid | Assistant Professor | Lehigh University |
| 2012 | Jun Lee | Associate Research Fellow | Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade |
| 2012 | Marc Rockmore | Assistant Professor | Clark University |
| 2012 | John Taber | Economist | Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |
| 2011 | Masato Nakane | Economist | International Monetary Fund |
| 2011 | Thanasin Tanompongphandh | Lecturer | Mae Fah Luang University |
| 2011 | Wei Cen | Assistant Professor | HSBC Business School |
| 2011 | Itthipong Mahathanaseth | Lecturer | Kasetsart University |
| 2011 | Sudha Narayanan | Assistant Professor | Indira Gandhi Inst. of Dev. Res. |
| 2010 | Rahul Anand | Economist | International Monetary Fund |
| 2010 | Annelies Deuss | Visiting Assistant Professor | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 2010 | Qian Han | Assistant Professor | Xiamen University |
| 2010 | Annemie Maertens | Assistant Professor | University of Pittsburgh |
| 2010 | Hope Michelson | Assistant Professor | University of Illinois |
Recent MS Job Placements
| Year | Name | Position | University / Agency / Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Shuyue Deng | PhD in Food and Nutrition Policy | Tufts University |
| 2023 | Summer Li | Analyst | Compass Lexecon |
| 2023 | Kate Carter-Cram | PhD in Public Policy | Oregon State University |
| 2023 | Laurel Krovetz | PhD in Applied Economics and Management | Cornell University |
| 2023 | Zisu Xie | Analyst | Citi |
| 2023 | Morgan Mastrianni | PhD in Agricultural Economics | Purdue University |
| 2022 | Ina Gijka | Project Finance and Development Manager | Distributed Sun |
| 2022 | Luqi Liang | PhD in Marketing | Tsinghua University in China |
| 2022 | Peizan Sheng | PhD in Public Policy | University of Chicago |
| 2022 | Xiaoyu Hu | PhD in Accounting | Boston College |
| 2022 | Henry Williams | Economics PhD and Teaching Assistant | Colorado State University |
| 2022 | Xuqian Ma | PhD in Health Policy | University of California, Berkeley |
| 2021 | Joshua Sheinberg | Senior Associate Technical Training Consultant | SAS Institute |
| 2021 | Casey Silver | Agricultural Economist | US Department of Agriculture and Economic Research Service |
| 2021 | Yuwei Liu | Finance Management Trainee | JD.com |
| 2021 | Tam Tran | Pricing Analyst | Cargill |
| 2021 | Xueyun Luo | PhD Applied Economics and Management | Cornell University, Dyson School |
| 2021 | Qian Wang | PhD in Management | Cornell University, SC Johnson Graduate School of Management |
| 2021 | Xiaoyuan (Felicity) Zhang | PhD Student | University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy |
| 2021 | Qixiang Gao | PhD Finance | University of Rochester |
| 2017 | Dieynab Diatta | Consultant | International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Rome, Italy |
| 2017 | Ishneet Kaur | Analytics Fellow | McKinsey and Company, Waltham, MA |
| 2017 | Qingrun Meng | Analyst | Analysis Group, Boston |
| 2017 | Anthony Nasr | Analyst | Analysis Group, New York |
| 2017 | Jason Troendle | Senior Business Analyst | The Context Network |
| 2017 | Joaquin Valdes Perez | Analyst | Impendi Analytics |
| 2017 | Suryakumari Samyuktha Kannan | Senior Research Associate | International Food Policy & Research Institute, New Delhi, India |
| 2017 | Mary Kate Wheeler | Agricultural Economic Analyst | Cornell University, CALS-Entomology, Dyce Lab for Honey Bee Research |
| 2016 | Michael James Bentley | Analyst | Farient Advisors, LLC |
| 2016 | Amy Carduner | Financial Representative | Farm Credit Canada |
| 2016 | Phillip Coles | Vice President of Regulatory Compliance & Strategic Planning | Giorgio Mushroom Company |
| 2016 | Pinyi Chen | Research Analyst | World Bank |
| 2016 | Ziang Cheng | Project Manager | China Great Wall Int.’l Exhibition Co., LTD |
| 2016 | Sogol Kananizadeh | Senior Analyst | Global Data and Information Management, JLL |
| 2016 | Qisiyu Miao | Strategy Sales Analyst | Morgan Stanley Institutional Equity Derivative |
| 2016 | Yuanyuan Pan | Associate | Axtria, Inc. |
| 2016 | Kaihang Shi | Assistant Researcher | Ministry of Transport of P.R.C. |
| 2016 | Boya Wang | Intern | Onenicecar |
| 2016 | Zhaoyu Zeng | Analyst | UnionPay Advisor |
| 2015 | Alyssa P. Miller | Associate Director | Scotiabank |
| 2015 | Carolina Carbajal De Nova | Professor of Economics | Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana at Iztapalapa |
| 2015 | Marin Cherry | Food Science Undergraduate Program Coordinator | Cornell University |
| 2015 | Peixun Fang | Co-Founder | Zhizi Tech Company, China |
| 2015 | Xiao Hu | Model Risk Management Analyst | Citigroup |
| 2014 | Jing He | Consumer Analytics Management Associate | Citibank |
| 2014 | Muhammad Jawad Khan | Assistant Professor | Balochistan University of IT, Pakistan |
| 2014 | Amy Uber | Senior Agricultural Economist | California Dept. of Food & Agriculture |
| 2014 | Fengping Zheng | Analyst | China Life Asset Management Company |
| 2014 | Elizabeth Bageant | Research Support Specialist | Dyson School, Cornell University |
| 2014 | Xiao Yang He | Consultant | IFPRI |
| 2014 | Justin Shepherd | Agricultural Analyst | DHF Team |
| 2014 | Yijia Tang | Research Support Specialist | Dyson School, Cornell University |
| 2014 | Pensiri Kangvonkit | Policy Analyst | Bank of Thailand |
| 2014 | Adeline Yeh | Senior Research Assistant | IFPRI |
| 2013 | Wansopin Amatyakul | Trade Analyst, Dept. of Foreign Trade | Government of Thailand |
| 2013 | Hira Channa | Research Analyst | Pakistan Strategy Support Program |
| 2013 | Michael Mulford | Country Director | PCI Tanzania |
| 2012 | Katie Ricketts | Research Specialist | Cornell University |
| 2012 | Xiaolan Xu | Analyst/Investment Banking | Barclays |
| 2011 | Pascale Schnitzer Raab | Consultant | UNICEF West & Central Africa Regional Office |
| 2011 | Corey White | Research Associate | Glass, Lewis & Co. |
| 2011 | Wan-Chen Lee | Professional Services Analyst | The Nielsen Company |
| 2011 | Maleeha Rizwan | Global Management Trainee | AkzoNobel |
| 2011 | Thomas Carman | Client Service Associate | U.S. Capital Advisors |
| 2011 | Xiaolin Cui | Project Manager | Apollo REITS |
| 2011 | Michael Gadsden | Energy Analyst | Ascend Analytics |
| 2011 | Derek Stenclik | Energy Analyst | GE Energy |
| 2011 | Arnold Xavier | Senior Relationship Manager | Barclays |
| 2011 | Yidi Xia | Research Analyst | Bunge Global Markets |
| 2011 | Yan Zhao | System Engineer/Analyst | Global Foundries |
| 2010 | James Neyhard | Investment Analyst | Hancock Agricultural Group |
| 2010 | Robert Weaver | Director, Solution Design | Adayana |
MPS Careers
Student Spotlight
Maulik Jagnani
Hometown
Bombay, India
Anticipated Degree and Concentration
Ph.D., International and Development Economics with a focus on behavioral economics and applied econometrics
Previous Employment
IFMR Centre for Micro Finance/MIT Poverty Action Lab (2012-2014)