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PhD placement
SFU Economics has had a 100 per cent placement rate for its outgoing PhD graduates, many of whom have secured impressive initial job placements.
2022 - 2023
| Marieh Azizirad | International Monetary Fund (Economist); University of Warwick (Postdoctoral Research Fellow) |
| Liang Diao | French National Institute for Research on Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE) (Postdoctoral Research Fellow) |
| Minoru Higa | School of Management at Universidad de los Andes (Assistant Professor) |
| Wenqian Sun | BC Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (Economist) |
| Boxi Yang | Education & Skills Team at the Conference Board of Canada (Senior Research Associate) |
2021 - 2022
| Anil Donmez | The Brattle Group (Associate) |
| Xiaolin Sun | Monash University (Postdoctoral Research Fellow) |
| Shirleen Manzur | Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (Researcher) |
2020-2021
| Garrett Petersen | Abio Systems (Chief Economist) |
| Kevin Laughren | Smith School of Business, Queen's University (Postdoctoral Fellow) |
| Ricardo Meilman Cohn | Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (Research Associate) |
| Farouk Abdul-Salam | Amazon (Economist) |
2019-2020
| Eric Adebayo | Empirica Infrastructure |
| Thomas Vigié | Simon Fraser University (Lecturer) |
| Hanh Tong | Theory+Practice (Data Scientist) |
2018-2019
| Yaser Sattari | Canadian Western Bank (Senior Analyst) |
| Mahsa Akbari | Brandeis University (Lecturer) |
| Shiqu Zhou | University of the Fraser Valley (term appointment) |
| Xiao Yu | Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation |
| Keyi Zhang | Amazon (Economist) |
| Yang Wang | Columbia College (term appointment) |
2017-2018
| Xiaowen Lei | Oxford University - Nuffield College (Postdoc) |
| Duman Bahrami-Rad | Harvard University (Postdoc) |
2016-2017
| Kevin Chen | Grinnell College |
| Natt Hongdilokkul | Stanford University (Postdoc) |
| Joshua Boitnott | University of the Fraser Valley |
| Andreas Ludwig | SANAD Abu Dhabi |
2015-2016
| Edouard Tsague Djeutem | Bank of Canada |
| Aidin Hajikhameneh | Chapman University (Postdoc) |
| Reza Sattari | Ohio State University (Postdoc) |
| Xianjuan Chen | Sichuan University |
| Michael Tseng | Swiss Finance Institute at EPFL (Lausanne) |
| David Oh | Candian Mortgage and Housing Corporation |
| Fatemeh Mokhtarzadeh | University of Victoria (Postdoc) |
| Roghaiyeh Dastranj Tabrizi | Hootsuite |
| Tenzin Yindok | Colgate University |
| Daniele Signori | DV Trading |
| Ebrahim Azimi | Precima |
2014-2015
| Corneliu Bolbocean | Baylor University |
| Soheil Mahmoodzadeh | Cambridge University (Postdoc) |
| Graeme Walker | RMIT Vietnam |
| Nikolaus Kasimatis | Rochester Institute of Technology |
2013-2014
| Ideen Riahi | CUNY - School of Public Affairs |
| Nick Dadson | Analysis Group |
| Georgi Boichev | University of Regina (Postdoc) |
| Giuseppe Danese | Catholic University of Portugal (Postdoc) |
| Christoph Eder | University of Innsbruck |
2012-2013
| Hagen Schwerin | ETH Zurich (Postdoc) |
| Nadiya Mankovska | DIW ECON |
| Benjamin Harris | US Census Bureau |
2011-2012
| Pierre Nguimkeu | Georgia State University |
| Michele Battisti | The Ifo Institute (University of Munich) |
| Mohsen Javdani | University of British Columbia, Okanagan |
| Sophie Wang | Central University of Finance and Economics |
| Kenneth Lam | Simon Fraser University (Lecturer) |
| Yu Fu | Beedie School of Business (Postdoc) |
2010-2011
| Bianjun Xia | Zhejiang University |
| Stephen Fagan | BlackRock |
| Alfred Kong | University of British Columbia (Lecturer) |
2009-2010
| Haitao Xiang | Alexander College |
| Ivan Tchinkov | Concordia University (Lecturer) |
| Horatio Morgan | Ryerson University |
2008-2009
| Mei Dong | Bank of Canada |
| Yi Xue | University of International Business and Economics |
| Ross Hickey | University of British Columbia, Okanagan |
2007-2008
| Cheryl Fu | Statistics Canada |
| Bo Chen | Shanghai University of Finance and Economics |
| Mykhaylo Salnykov | BEROC |
| Olena Kostyshina | Portland State University |
| Janet Jiang | University of Manitoba |