Job Placements: MS & PhD in Applied Economics
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 PhD Job Placements
| Year | Name | Position | University / Agency / Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Sharan Banerjee | Postdoctoral Fellow | KAPSARC School of Public Policy, Riyadh |
| 2025 | Feng Chi | Assistant Professor of Economics | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| 2025 | Xiaoying Liu | Principal Quantitative Modeler | Capital One |
| 2025 | Michael Meneses | Postdoctoral Associate | Yale School of the Environment |
| 2025 | Anh Nguyen | Lecturer | International University – VNUHCM |
| 2025 | Shree Saha | Global Agriculture Division, World Bank | World Bank, Young Professionals Program |
| 2025 | Weiliang Tan | Postdoctoral Associate; Assistant Professor of Economics | National Bureau of Economic Research ; Claremont McKenna College |
| 2025 | Tong Wu | Research Scientist in Natural Resource Economics | Natural Resources Institute Finland |
| 2025 | Minhao Yan | Research Data Scientist | Freddie Mac |
| 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 | Zhiyun Li | Economist | UCLA Anderson Forecast |
| 2023 | Zhengyuan Wu | Senior Data Scientist | Citibank |
| 2023 | Ye Xian | Quantitative Researcher | Acadian Asset Management |
| 2023 | Muxi Yang | Economist | Bates White Economic Consulting |
| 2023 | Hui Zhou | Assistant Professor | Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics University of Rhode Island |
| 2022 | Ruyu Chen | Postdoctoral Fellow | Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence |
| 2022 | Tung Dang | Postdoctoral Fellow | School of Economics University of Sydney |
| 2022 | Deyu Rao | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| 2022 | Louis Sears | Economist | U.S. Department of Transportation Volpe National Transportation Systems Center Corporate Average Fuel Economy Program |
| 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 |
| 2021 | Ali Abbas | Economist | International Monetary Fund |
| 2021 | Anne Byrne | Research Agricultural Economist | USDA Economic Research Service |
| 2021 | Vidya Bharathi Rajkumar | Assistant Professor | Krea University |
| 2021 | Diego S. Cardoso | Assistant Professor | Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University |
| 2021 | Yuanning Liang | Assistant Professor | Peking University |
| 2021 | Shuyang Si | Assistant Professor | Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University |
| 2021 | Joy Wu | Postdoctoral Researcher | Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich |
| 2021 | Lin Yang | Assistant Professor | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| 2021 | Youwei Yang | Director of Financial Analytics | StoneX Group |
| 2021 | D. Adeline Yeh | Research Agricultural Economist | USDA Economic Research Service |
| 2020 | Chia Hua Lin | Postdoctoral Associate | Johns Hopkins University |
| 2020 | Margaret Jodlowski | Assistant Professor | Ohio State University |
| 2020 | Christina Korting | Assistant Professor | University of Delaware |
| 2020 | Matthew McGranaghan | Assistant Professor | University of Delaware |
| 2020 | Avralt-Od Purevjav | Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Bern |
| 2020 | Armand Sim | Research Fellow | Monash University |
| 2020 | Shiuli Vanaja | Assistant Professor | Azim Premji University |
| 2019 | Xin Gao | Associate | Analysis Group |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | Tanvi Rao | Research Associate | IMPAQ International, Washington, D.C. |
| 2017 | Yiwei Wang | Data Analyst | Center for Governmental Research |
| 2017 | Di Wu | Principal Consultant | Edgeworth Economics, Washington, D.C. |
| 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 | Soumya Gupta | Post Doctoral Fellow | Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative |
| 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 | Andrew Waxman | Assistant Professor | Arizona State University, School of Public Affairs |
| 2015 | Dennis Becker | Associate | Dean & Company |
| 2015 | Samuel Bell | Co-Founder & CEO | Vitalite Zambia Limited |
| 2015 | Julia Berazneva | Assistant Professor | Middlebury College |
| 2015 | Teevrat Garg | Assistant Professor | University of California, San Diego |
| 2015 | Hao Lu | Senior Quantitative Analyst | Pacific Gas & Electric Company |
| 2015 | Pimbucha Rusmevichientong | Assistant Professor | California State University |
| 2015 | Parul Sharma | Financial Economist | U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission |
| 2015 | Lin Sun | AVP Risk Management | Industrial and Commercial Bank of China |
| 2015 | Joanna Upton | Post-Doctoral Associate | Dyson School, Cornell University |
| 2015 | Jubo Yan | Assistant Professor | Nanyang Technological University |
Recent MS Job Placements
| Year | Name | Position | University / Agency / Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Yuktha Bhadane | Operations Analyst Intern | Fuse Energy |
| 2025 | Shengyang Cen | Ph. D Student | Washington University in St. Louis |
| 2025 | Alan Cui | Ph. D Student | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 2025 | Ruihua Guo | Ph. D in Management, Real Estate | National University of Singapore |
| 2025 | Yuxi Jiang | Position | A Central State-Owned Enterprise in China |
| 2025 | Yiran Liu | Ph. D Student | University College London |
| 2025 | Yuting Mao | Bond Trader | Taikang Asset Management Co. |
| 2025 | Madilyn Smith | Ph. D Student | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 2025 | Anamay Viswanathan | Senior Technical Program Manager | First Street |
| 2025 | Jialiang Wang | Business Analyst | Encore Capital |
| 2025 | Mingcong Xie | Ph. D Student | Michigan State University |
| 2025 | Willow Yang | Ph. D Student | Cornell University |
| 2025 | Hongyu Zhao | Ph. D in Environmental and Resource Economics | Michigan State University |
| 2025 | Jingjun Zhao | Product/Portfolio Manager | China Galaxy Securities Co. |
| 2023 | Kate Carter-Cram | PhD in Public Policy | Oregon State University |
| 2023 | Shuyue Deng | PhD in Food and Nutrition Policy | Tufts University |
| 2023 | Laurel Krovetz | PhD in Applied Economics and Management | Cornell University |
| 2023 | Summer Li | Analyst | Compass Lexecon |
| 2023 | Morgan Mastrianni | PhD in Agricultural Economics | Purdue University |
| 2023 | Zisu Xie | Analyst | Citi |
| 2022 | Xiaoyu Hu | PhD in Accounting | Boston College |
| 2022 | Ina Gijka | Project Finance and Development Manager | Distributed Sun |
| 2022 | Luqi Liang | PhD in Marketing | Tsinghua University in China |
| 2022 | Xuqian Ma | PhD in Health Policy | University of California, Berkeley |
| 2022 | Peizan Sheng | PhD in Public Policy | University of Chicago |
| 2022 | Henry Williams | Economics PhD and Teaching Assistant | Colorado State University |
| 2021 | Qixiang Gao | PhD Finance | University of Rochester |
| 2021 | Yuwei Liu | Finance Management Trainee | JD.com |
| 2021 | Xueyun Luo | PhD Applied Economics and Management | Cornell University, Dyson School |
| 2021 | Danny Munch | Economist | American Farm Bureau Federation |
| 2021 | Joshua Sheinberg | Senior Associate Technical Training Consultant | SAS Institute |
| 2021 | Casey Silver | Agricultural Economist | US Department of Agriculture and Economic Research Service |
| 2021 | Tam Tran | Pricing Analyst | Cargill |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 2015 | Alyssa P. Miller | Associate Director | Scotiabank |