Placements
The BC Economics department has placed its graduates in academic positions in highly ranked universities all over the world, including UCLA Anderson, UC Irvine, Rice, Johns Hopkins SAIS, North Carolina State, SUNY Albany, Florida State, Drexel, Northeastern, LSE, Oxford, Warwick, Bocconi, York, Bristol, Lancaster, Heriot-Watt, Imperial College, UC Dublin, Concordia, HEC Montrèal, UQAM, Carlos III, Frankfurt am Main, Bogaziçi, New South Wales, National University of Singapore, Renmin, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; in international institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank; in the Federal Reserve System and in other central banks around the world; in government research positions and in top consulting groups and think tanks, including Goldman Sachs, The Analysis Group, NERA, Charles River Associates International, Brattle Group, Urban Institute, Center for Naval Analyses, and WZB Berlin. Their publications appear in many of the top-ranked journals in economics and finance. Here is a full list of placements over the last decade and positions held by BC Ph.D. alumnae and alumni.
| Name | Year | Initial Placement | Subsequent Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pietro dall'Ara | 2024 | University of Naples (post doc) | |
| Deyin Jia | 2024 | State Street Bank | |
| Aastha Malhotra | 2024 | Charles River Associates | |
| Tobias Müller | 2024 | European Central Bank | |
| Alex Opanasets | 2024 | US Census Bureau | |
| Arnab Palit | 2024 | Bates White Consulting | |
| Luigi Pollio | 2024 | University of Maryland Baltimore | |
| Christian Velasquez | 2024 | Reserve Bank of New Zealand | |
| Qingsong Yao | 2024 | Lousiana State University | |
| Linqi Zhang | 2024 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | |
| Carter Bryson | 2023 | Bureau of Economic Analysis | |
| Dinghe Cui | 2023 | Cornerstone Research | |
| Marco Errico | 2023 | Bank of Italy | |
| Cristián Figueroa | 2023 | Charles River Associates | |
| Esther Lee | 2023 | Analysis Group | |
| Jade Nogc Nguyen | 2023 | British Telecom Pension Fund (London) | |
| Ryan Westphal | 2023 | Brandeis | |
| Divya Bhagia | 2022 | California State University Fullerton | |
| Andrew Copland | 2022 | ISO New England | |
| Ilaria D'Angelis | 2022 | University of Massachusetts, Boston | |
| Haydar Evren | 2022 | Akuna Capital | |
| Valeria Ferraro | 2022 | Amazon - People Experience Technology (PXT) Team | |
| Jean-François Gauthier | 2022 | HEC Montréal, Applied Economics Department | |
| Luca Gemmi | 2022 | HEC Lausanne, Finance Department (Postdoc) | University of Bologna (post doc) |
| Kritika Goel | 2022 | Charles River Associates, Antitrust and Competition | |
| Manshu Khanna | 2022 | Peking University, HSBC Business School | |
| Alexey Khazanov | 2022 | Hebrew University, Jerusalem | |
| Xiaoying Lan | 2022 | Goldman Sachs | |
| Praveen Saini | 2022 | Capital One | |
| Dimitar Simeonov | 2022 | Bahcesehir University, Istanbul | |
| Marco Brianti | 2021 | University of Alberta, Edmonton | |
| Federico Favaretto | 2021 | University of Urbino (Postdoc) | |
| Laura Gáti | 2021 | European Central Bank | |
| Liyang Hong | 2021 | Xiamen University | |
| Kenzo Imamura | 2021 | University of Tokyo Market Design Center (Postdoc) | |
| Navin Kumar | 2021 | Harris School of Public Policy at University of Chicago (Non-tenure track) | |
| Bo Wang | 2021 | Julex Capital Management | |
| Zhuzhu Zhou | 2021 | Xiamen University | |
| Ratib M Ali | 2020 | Massachusetts Attorney General's Office | |
| Gian Caspari | 2020 | ZEW (Center for European Economic Research), Mannheim | |
| Joe Cooprider | 2020 | Amazon | |
| Vito Cormun | 2020 | Santa Clara University | |
| Bogdan Genchev | 2020 | The Brattle Group, Boston | |
| Krisztina Horvath | 2020 | Analysis Group, Brussels | |
| Wenliang Hou | 2020 | Fidelity | |
| Yushan Hu | 2020 | Renmin University, Beijing | |
| Jinyong Jeong | 2020 | Liaoning University | |
| Zafer Kanik | 2020 | University of Glasgow, Adam Smith Business School | |
| Christina Letsou | 2020 | Deloitte | |
| Xirong Lin | 2020 | Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | |
| Sajala Pandey | 2020 | Analysis Group, Boston | |
| Giri Subramanian | 2020 | Analysis Group, Boston | |
| Dominique Brabant | 2019 | Colgate University | |
| Michael Connolly | 2019 | Colgate University | |
| Pierre De Leo | 2019 | University of Maryland | |
| William Hickman | 2019 | NRG Energy | |
| Jacob Penglase | 2019 | Analysis Group | |
| Nicholas Diebel | 2018 | CNA | |
| Krastina Dzhambova | 2018 | University of Wisconsin-Whitewater | |
| Mehmet Ezer | 2018 | Randolph-Macon College | |
| Marco Ghiani | 2018 | Ingress Health in Wismar, Germany | |
| Vitor Baisi Hadad | 2018 | Stanford SIEPR, Postdoc | |
| Lauren Hoehn Velasco | 2018 | Bryn Mawr College | |
| Jinyong Jeong | 2018 | University of Pittsburgh (Postdoc) | |
| Deeksha Kale | 2018 | International Monetary Fund | |
| Mashfiqur Khan | 2018 | Bates and White | |
| John Lindner | 2018 | Executive Office of the President, Management and Budget, Washington, DC | |
| Solvejg Wewel | 2018 | Analysis Group | |
| Penglong Zhang | 2018 | Tsinghua University | |
| Zulma Barrail | 2017 | Central Bank of Paraguay | |
| Alexander Eiermann | 2017 | Stonehill College | |
| Igor Karagodsky | 2017 | Analysis Group | |
| Ana Lariau | 2017 | International Monetary Fund | |
| Choon Sung Lim | 2017 | Bank of Korea | |
| Hieu Luu | 2017 | Competition Dynamics | |
| Ethan Struby | 2017 | Carleton College | |
| Francesca Toscano | 2017 | Wayne State University, Mike Ilitch School of Business | |
| Michael Smith | 2016 | Charles River Associates | USAA |
| Laura Bonacorsi | 2016 | FEEM (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei) and CMCC (Euromediterranean Center on Climate Change) - Post Doctoral Junior Researcher | |
| Rossella Calvi | 2016 | Rice University | |
| Giacomo Candian | 2016 | HEC Montréal | |
| Rosalia Greco | 2016 | NERA Economic Consulting | |
| Sylvia Hristakeva | 2016 | UCLA Anderson School of Management | |
| Ivan Petkov | 2016 | Northeastern University | |
| Tristan Potter | 2016 | Drexel University | |
| Wen Zhang | 2016 | Renmin University | |
| Filippo DeMarco | 2015 | Bocconi University | |
| Francis Georges | 2015 | Brandeis University | Northeastern University |
| Naijing Huang | 2015 | Central University of Finance and Economics, China | |
| Junghyun Kwon | 2015 | Korean Development Institute | |
| Marco Macchiavelli | 2015 | Federal Reserve-Board of Governors | |
| Gohar Minasyan | 2015 | International Monetary Fund | |
| Bertan Turhan | 2015 | Centro de Investigación Económica (CIE) and Instituto Technológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) | Iowa State University |
| Yat Fung Wong | 2015 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China | |
| Tao Yang | 2015 | Research School of Economics, Australian National University | |
| Orhan Aygun | 2014 | Bogaziçi University | |
| Rucha Bhate | 2014 | American Express | |
| Inacio Bo | 2014 | WZB Berlin | University of York |
| Tamas Briglevics | 2014 | National Bank of Hungary | |
| Brent Bundick | 2014 | Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City | |
| Jinghan Cai | 2014 | University of Scranton | |
| Jin-Young Choi | 2014 | University of Frankfurt am Main | |
| Mikhail Dmitriev | 2014 | Florida State University | |
| Zhaochen He | 2014 | Lewis and Clark College | |
| Jonathan Hoddenbagh | 2014 | Johns Hopkins University, SAIS | |
| Shoghik Hovhannisyan | 2014 | The World Bank Group | |
| Federico Mantovanelli | 2014 | The Analysis Group | |
| Chen-Yu Pan | 2014 | Wuhan University, China | |
| Samson Alva | 2013 | University of Texas, San Antonio | |
| Anna Blank | 2013 | The Analysis Group | |
| Kyle Buika | 2013 | Acumen LLC | |
| Stacey Chan | 2013 | The Analysis Group | |
| Xiaoping Chen | 2013 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | |
| Lucrezio Figurelli | 2013 | Brattle Group | |
| Chuanliang Jiang | 2013 | Citizens Bank | State Street Bank |
| Massimo Giovannini | 2013 | Universitá Cattolica Milano | |
| Isaiah Hull | 2013 | Sveriges Riksbank | |
| Taesu Kang | 2013 | Central Bank of Korea | |
| John O'Trakoun | 2013 | US Government Accountability Office | Ford Motor Company |
| Farooq Pasha | 2013 | State Bank of Pakistan | |
| Chuanqi Zhu | 2013 | Sun Yat-sen University, China | |
| Kwok Ho Chan | 2012 | United International College, China | |
| Markéta Hálová | 2012 | Washington State University | Skidmore College |
| Devlin Hanson | 2012 | The Urban Institute | |
| Chiu Yu Ko | 2012 | National University of Singapore | |
| Meghan Skira | 2012 | University of Georgia | |
| Radoslav Raykov | 2012 | Bank of Canada | |
| Hongtao Zhuo | 2012 | Shandong University, China | |
| Alessandro Barattieri | 2011 | University of Quebec at Montrèal (UQAM) | |
| Isabella Blengini | 2011 | University of Lausanne | |
| Tatiana Farina | 2011 | Insper Business School, Brazil | Goethe-Universität |
| Aaron Fix | 2011 | The Analysis Group | |
| Madhavi Pundit | 2011 | National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi | Asian Development Bank |
| Dessislava Slavtcheva | 2011 | Clark University | |
| Wataru Hirata | 2011 | Bank of Japan | |
| Murat Mungan | 2011 | Florida State University, Law School | George Mason University Law School |
| Shannon Phillips Desrosiers | 2011 | Center for Naval Analysis | |
| Çaglar Yurtseven | 2011 | Bahçeşehir University, Turkey | |
| Matteo Cacciatore | 2010 | HEC Montrèal | |
| Nadia Karamcheva | 2010 | Urban Institute | |
| Luigi Pascali | 2010 | Universitat Pompeu Fabra | |
| Geoffrey Sanzenbacher | 2010 | The Analysis Group | |
| Wei Sun | 2010 | Renmin University, China | |
| Hi-Lin Tan | 2010 | Competition Commission of Singapore | |
| Yingying Dong | 2009 | California State University at Fullerton | University of California Irvine |
| Giuseppe Fiori | 2009 | Bank of Italy | North Carolina State University |
| Nicola Lostumbo | 2009 | PriceWaterhouseCoopers | |
| Elizaveta Shevyakhova | 2009 | Temple University | |
| Nicholas Sim | 2009 | University of Adelaide | |
| Olga Sorokina Harris | 2009 | ERS Group, Washington DC | |
| Vitaliy Strohush | 2009 | Elon University | |
| Pinar Uysal | 2009 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond |
| Chi Wan | 2009 | Carleton University, Ottawa | University of Massachusetts-Boston |
| Sisi Zhang | 2009 | Urban Institute | Shanghai University of Finance and Economics |
| Natalia Zhivan | 2009 | Tulane University | |
| Andrei Zlate | 2009 | Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | Federal Reserve Bank, Boston |
| Joachim Goeschel | 2008 | Fordham University | |
| Jingzhi Ginger Meng | 2008 | Stonehill College | |
| Margarita Rubio | 2008 | Bank of Spain | University of Nottingham |
| Mauricio Soto | 2008 | Urban Institute, Washington | International Monetary Fund |
| Megan MacDonald Way | 2008 | Babson College | |
| Baris Yörük | 2008 | State University of New York at Albany | |
| Darrel Barbato | 2007 | Liberty Mutual Group, Boston | Homesite Insurance, Boston |
| Lewis Gaul | 2007 | Office of the Comptroller of the Currency | |
| Marissa Ginn | 2007 | The Analysis Group, Montrèal | |
| Eren Inci | 2007 | Sabanci University, Turkey | |
| Gökçe Kurucu | 2007 | Tbilisi State University, Republic of Georgia | European University of Lefke |
| Tatiana Mihailovschi-Muntean | 2007 | Trent University, Canada | Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation |
| Maria Teresa Punzi | 2007 | University of Alicante, Spain | University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus |
| Viktors Stebunovs | 2007 | Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | |
| Margarita Sapozhnikov | 2007 | Charles River Associates International | |
| Pallavi Seth | 2007 | Liberty Mutual Group | Brattle Group, Washington DC |
| Yoto Yotov | 2007 | Drexel University | |
| Amrita Bhattacharyya | 2006 | Brattle Group | LEIDOS (formerly SAIC Energy) |
| Sheila Campbell | 2006 | Congressional Budget Office | |
| Shihe Fu | 2006 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China | |
| Emmanuel Lartey | 2006 | California State University at Fullerton | |
| Federico Mandelman | 2006 | Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta | |
| Kameliia Petrova | 2006 | Paul Smiths College, NY | SUNY Plattsburgh |
| Todd Prono | 2006 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | American University, Washington DC |
| Zhihong Chen | 2005 | University of International Business and Economics, China | |
| Kelly Haverstick | 2005 | Center for Retirement Research, Boston College | |
| Kolver Hernandez | 2005 | University of Delaware | |
| Asli Leblebicioglu | 2005 | North Carolina State University | University of Texas-Dallas |
| Mariano Kulish | 2005 | Reserve Bank of Australia | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Rasim Ozcan | 2005 | Northwestern University (Non-tenure track) | Ozyegin Universitesi, Turkey |
| Petria Petrova | 2005 | Workers Compensation Research Institute | KPMG |
| Sabina Pogorelec | 2005 | European Central Bank | European Investment Bank, Luxembourg |
| Andrew Samuel | 2005 | Calvin College | Loyola College in Maryland |
| Bedri Tas | 2005 | TOBB Economics and Technology University, Ankara | |
| Paola Zerilli | 2005 | University of York, England | |
| Boryana Dimitrova | 2004 | Deloitte & Touche | |
| Zhining Hu | 2004 | Gettysburg College | |
| Pavel Nazartsev | 2004 | PricewaterhouseCoopers | |
| Petronilla Nicoletti | 2004 | Bank of England | |
| Tairi Rööm | 2004 | Bank of Estonia | |
| Mirco Soffritti | 2004 | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | |
| Anh Vu | 2004 | Kennedy School of Government program, Vietnam | Harvard University Fulbright School, Ho Chi Minh City |
| Francesco Zanetti | 2004 | Bank of England | University of Oxford |
| Elaine Fleming | 2003 | The Analysis Group | |
| Kamer Karakurum Özdemir | 2003 | Ankara Office, The World Bank | |
| Martin Konan | 2003 | University of Massachusetts-Boston | |
| Yuriy Tchamourliyski | 2003 | KPMG | |
| Eçe Yolas | 2003 | Charles River Associates International | |
| Maurizio Zanardi | 2003 | University of Glasgow | Lancaster University, UK |
| Tiziana Brancaccio | 2002 | University College Dublin | |
| Helen Connolly | 2002 | Northeastern University | ICF International |
| Can Erbil | 2002 | Brandeis University | Boston College |
| Michael Giandrea | 2002 | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics | |
| Vasso Ioannidou | 2002 | Tilburg University | Lancaster University, UK |
| Joy Ongardanunkul | 2002 | UMass/Dartmouth | Government of Thailand |
| Rachida Ouysse | 2002 | University of New South Wales, Australia | |
| Ümit Özlale | 2002 | Bilkent University | |
| Niki Papadopoulou | 2002 | University of Glasgow | Central Bank of Cyprus |
| Cesare Robotti | 2002 | Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta | Imperial College Business School |
| Özlem Sayinta | 2002 | Bank of England | |
| Andreas Waldkirch | 2002 | Oregon State University | Colby College |
| Xiaomeng Yang | 2002 | Washington and Lee University | Credit Suisse Asset Management |
| Huanwei Zhao | 2002 | Suffolk University |
Kevin Cahill '01, Research Economist, Sloan Center for Aging and Work, Boston College
Metin Celebi '01, Principal, Brattle Group
Nikolai Gospodinov '01, Associate Professor, Concordia University
Mark Sarro '01, Principal, Brattle Group
Niloufer Sohrabji '01, Associate Professor, Simmons College
Soner Tunay '01, Senior Vice President-Risk Management, Citizens Financial Group, Boston
An Yan '01, Professor, Graduate School of Business, Fordham University
Silvia Ardagna '00, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
Oriana Bandiera '00, Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science
Benoît Durand '00, Partner, RBB Economics, Brussels
Emanuela Galasso '00, Senior Economist, World Bank
Antonio Gomes de Menezes '00, Chairman, SATA Airlines, Portugal
Neslihan Ozkan '98, Professor of Finance, University of Bristol, UK
Srikant Seshadri '98, Resident Representative in Turkey, International Monetary Fund
Mustafa Caglayan '97, Professor of Finance, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
Meral Karasulu '96, Vice President, OppenheimerFunds
Kristian Uppenberg '96, Research Economist, European Investment Bank, Luxembourg
Alpay Filiztekin '95, Professor, Sabançi University, Turkey
Atreya Chakraborty '94, Professor of Finance, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Peter Nigro '93, Professor, Bryant University
Gary Fissel '88, Senior Financial Economist, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Tullio Jappelli '88, Professor, University of Naples Federico II
Michael French '86, Professor of Economics, Professor of Sociology, Professor of Public Health Sciences, Professor of Health Sector Management and Policy, University of Miami
James LeSage '83, Professor, Texas State University
Mario Fortuna '83, Professor, University of the Azores
Clifford Thies '82, Lindsay Professor of Economics and Finance, Shenandoah University
Teresa Amott '80, President, Knox College
James Markusen '73, University Distinguished Professor, University of Colorado