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