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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 |