Below are initial job placements for alumni from UC Santa Cruz’s Ph.D. in Economics program, organized by year of graduation.
2024
- Harrison Shieh – Assistant Professor, Vassar College
- Ken Suzuki – Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
- Shinya Inukai – Deputy Director, Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
2023
- Anirban Sanyal – Assistant Advisor, Reserve Bank of India
- Dongwan Choo – Senior Lecturer, Massey University, New Zealand
- Ke Ma – Data Scientist, Epsilon Data Management
- Naresh Kumar – Economist, World Bank
- Teng Liu – Research Manager, Upwork
- Yanshuo Chen – Quantitative Analytics Senior, Freddie Mac
- Zhaoqi Wang – Assistant Professor, Jinan University
2022
- Prateek Arora – Assistant Professor, Union College
- Mai Hakamada – Economist, International Monetary Fund
- Luka Kocic – Healthcare Associate, Analysis Group
- Liwei Liu – Facebook
- Jianan Liu – Postdoc and Assistant Professor, Renmin University
- Rongchen Liu – Facebook
- Weicheng Lyu – Assistant Professor, Liaoning University
- David Sungho Park – Assistant Professor, KDI School of Public Policy and Management
- Brett Williams – PostDoc, AGORA Centre for Market Design at University of New South Wales
- Yusuf Yildirim – Central Bank of Turkey
- Yunxiao Zhang – PostDoc, Peking University
2021
- Ziyu He – Data Scientist, Startup
- Jiayi Xu – Economist, Realtor.com
- Shuchen Zhao – Assistant Professor, Institute for Advanced Economic Research, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics
- Zijing Zhu – Research Scientist, AirLiquide
- David Zink – Quantitative Specialist, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
2020
- Fernando Chertman – Central Bank of Brazil
- Qing Ge – AML Quantitative Analyst, Regions Bank, Birmingham, AL
- DJ Jeong – Research Economist, World Bank
- Licheng Yin – Data Scientist, Instacart
- Rachel Zhang – Facebook
2019
- Jijian Fan – Assistant Professor, Zhejiang University
- Alan Ledesma – Central Bank of Peru
- Daniel Oliver – Sr. Research Fellow, Education Research Alliance for New Orleans (Tulane University)
- Bryan Pratt – Research Agricultural Economist, USDA Economic Research Service
- Akatsuki Sukeda – Fellow in Economics, London School of Economics
2018
- Valentina Brailovskaya – IDInsight
- Baizhu Chen – BlackRock
- Eilin Francis – Postdoctoral Associate, MIT J-PAL
- Sameh Habib – Joint Committee on Taxation
- Takaaki Hirakawa – Faculty, Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology at UC Berkeley
- Can Kadirgan – Central Bank of Turkey
- Kyle Neering – Center for Naval Analysis
- Liam Rose – Health Economics Research Center, US Department of Veteran Affairs
- Asha Shepard – Assistant Professor, Goucher College
- Wei Xu – Data Scientist, UBER
2017
- Jae Choi – Assistant Professor, Xavier University
- Brian Giera – Amazon Research
- Mario Gonzalez – Central Bank of Chile
- Seung Lee – Microsoft
- Raul Tadle – Assistant Professor, CSU Sacramento
- Taeree Wang – Wells Fargo
- Anick Yaha – Chief Analyst, National Bank of Canada
2016
- Maggie apRoberts-Warren – Assistant Professor, Eastern Washington University
- Matt Baumer – Data Scientist, Facebook
- Pia Basurto – Peru Ministry of Education
- Eric Fischer – Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
- Brandon Heck – IMPAQ International
- Achmad Maulana – Senior Researcher, Center for Sustainable Development Goals, Padjadjaran University (Indonesia)
- David Munro – Assistant Professor, Middlebury College
- Cheyney O’Fallon – National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Justin Rietz – Assistant Professor, San Jose State University
- Arsenios Skaperdas – Federal Reserve Board of Governors
- Wentao Su – Bank of America
2015
- Gabriel Axarlian – Lecturer, California State University, Northridge
- Quincy Chen – JPMorgan Chase & Co.
- Benjamin Garcia – Central Bank of Chile
- David Florian-Hoyle – Central Bank of Peru
- Curtis Kephart – Post-doc, NYU – Abu Dhabi
- Chris Limnios – Assistant Professor, Providence College
- Kevin McLaughlin – Postdoc, Chapman University
- Jesse Mora – Assistant Professor, Occidental College
- Manizha Sharifova – Assistant Professor, University of the Pacific
- Evan Smith – Director of Research, Cabezon Investment Group
2014
- Shilpa Aggarwal – Assistant Professor, Indian School of Business (India)
- Juan Catalan-Herrera – Central Bank of Guatemala
- Nick Lovett – Lecturer, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater
- Kat LoPiccalo – Federal Communications Commission
- Jacopo Magnani – Visiting Assistant Professor, Purdue University
- Ryota Nakatani – Central Bank of Japan
- Yabin Wang – Visiting Research Associate, Purdue University
- Lynda Wilson – Pentagon
- Yuhan Xue – Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater
2013
- Ivan Asensio – Assistant Professor, University of Victoria Business School (Canada)
- Huseyin Aytug – Central Bank of Turkey
- Ciril Bosch-Rosa – Postdoc, Technische University Berlin (Germany)
- Shruti Sharma – Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management (India)
2012
- Robert Baden – Lecturer, UCSC
- Julian Caballero – Inter-American Development Bank
- George Georgiou – Lecturer, National University of Singapore
- Kenta Inoue – Central Bank of Japan
- Aaron Meininger – Lecturer, UCSC
- Mariya Mileva – Assistant Professor, CSU-Long Beach
- Luba Petersen – Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University
- JeanPaul Rabanal – Visiting Assistant Professor, City of University of Hong Kong
- Ren Wang – Shanghai Future Exchange
2011
- Orcan Cortuk – Central Bank of Turkey
- Sergio Lago-Alves – Central Bank of Brazil
- Kun Li – Inter-American Development Bank
- Sanchita Mukherjee – HSBC
- Rajeswari Sengupta – Associate Professor at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India
- Vladyslav Sushko – Bank for International Settlements
- Conglin Xu – Senior Editor (Economics), Oil and Gas Journal
2010
- Maxim Belenkiy – International Trade Administration
- Mahir Binici – Central Bank of Turkey
- Cesar Carrera – Central Bank of Peru
- Jia-Yuh Chen – Assistant Professor, Coe College
- Ambrish Dongre – Center for Policy Research (India)
- Nan Geng – International Monetary Fund
- “Stella” Xue Liu – International Monetary Fund
- Jesus Sandoval-Hernandez – Lecturer, UC Merced
- “Andy” Yi Sun – USBC
- Unay Tamgac – Assistant Professor, TOBB University of Economics and Technology (Turkey)
2009
- Todd Feldman – Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University
- Gurnain Pasricha – Bank of Canada
- JZ Zhao – Assistant Professor, Hampton-Sydney College