The Department of Economics assists its PhD graduates by posting job opportunities from colleges, universities, government agencies, private industry, and other organizations. In addition, a faculty member is appointed each year to coordinate placement activities, and a staff member is available to handle other administrative matters related to placement. Each autumn quarter the Department facilitates the submission of letters of recommendation for applications. Students also participate in mock interviews and present seminars to polish their speaking skills. The Department encourages its graduates to attend the national AEA conference to develop a network of potential employers.
Our 2006 - 2023 PhD graduates are profiled here:
2023-24
Dadmehr Didgar - EY, Seattle, WA
Sean Ewen - Arizona State University. AZ
Jungyoun Kim - Amazon, Seattle, WA
Resem Makan - post-doc, Case Western Reserve University, OH
Junwei Mao - Amazon, Seattle, WA
Jackson Monroe - Amazon, Seattle, WA
Jorge Rivero - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Wendao Xue - post-doc, University of Texas, Austin, TX
2022-23
Reina Kawai - World Bank Economist, Washington DC, US
Seungryul Jeong - Bank of Korea, Seoul, Korea
Yue Ma - Analysis Group, New York City, New York
Kovid Puria - PwC, Seattle, Wa
Zhe Liu - postdoc, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Jeewon Park - Ministry of Finance, South Korea
Zhou Yang - Certilytics Inc.
Yuming Liu - Fannie Mae
Victoria Ziqi Hang - Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
Vinod Dharmarajan - Amazon.com, Seattle, Wa
Yacoub Alatrash - Wayfair Inc., Boston, MA
Gani Nurmukhametov - Washington State University, Everett campus, WA
2021-22
Kwong-Yu Wong - National University of Singapore
Samin Jalali - Freddie Mac, Washington DC
Hyeonseok Park - Dongbei University of Finance and Economics (DUFE), Dalian, China
Chujian Shao - Hunan University, Changsha, China
Castiel Chen Zhuang - Peking University, Beijing, China
Pushpak Sarkar - Russell Investments, Seattle, WA
Qifan Huang - Meta (Facebook), Menlo Park, CA
Kyongjun Kwak - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, France
Ferdous Sardar - Bryant University, Rhode Island
Luis Diego Granera Vega- Villanova University, Pennsylvania
Lia Xu - Meta (Facebook), Seattle, WA
Tongyuan Shen - Beihang University, Beijing, China
Yida Li - Hong Kong Monetary Authority
2020-21
Eui Ran Chon - Financial Supervisory Service, Seoul, Korea
Yuan (Monica) Gao Rollinson - IMF Economist Program, Washington DC, US
Shuo Jiang - Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen, China
Taehoon Kwon - Ministry of Agriculture, Sejong, Korea
Zinan Wang - Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
Chi-Hui Yen - Amazon, Seattle, WA
Camilo Granados - University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
2019-20
Nahyeon Bak - Amazon, Seattle, WA
Dmitry Brizhatyuk - Moody's Analytics, London, UK
An-Tsu Chen - Tencent, Beijing, China
Ziran (Josh) Ding - Bank of Lithuania
Justin Downs - University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Agraj Gupta - Amazon, Seattle, WA
Zhe (Jasmine) Jiang - Reed College, Portland, OR [update: The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia]
Sungcheol Kim - Ministry of Finance, Sejong, Korea
Yurim Lee - Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
Eunmi Park - Ministry of Finance, Sejong, Korea
Xuetao Shi - The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Yang Su - Afiniti, Washington DC, US
2018-19
Bijetri Bose - Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA (research associate)
Guillermo Gallacher - University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Marie Guldin - Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA, Seattle, WA
Daisoon Kim - North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Jonghyun Kim - Ministry of Finance, Sejong, Korea
Amy Lastuka - Center for Sustainable Energy, San Diego, CA
Rory Mullen - University of Warwick Business School, Coventry, UK
Jingyi Ren - Microsoft, Redmond, WA
Jagori Saha - Furman University, Greenville, SC (visiting)
Andres Sanchez-Jabba - Central Bank of Colombia
Hyo Jin Sonn - Moody's Analytics, San Francisco, CA [update: Apple, Senior Data Scientist]
2017 - 2018
Keita Abe - Associate Professor at Musashi University, Japan
Yeuan (Allen) Chen - Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA (postdoc)
Andrew Clayton - Amazon, Seattle, WA
Yang Fan - Colby College, Waterville, ME
Austin Gross - Microsoft, Redmond, WA
Ken Ho - Liaoning University, Shenyang, China
Shih-Tang Hwu - Cal Poly, Pomona, CA
Weng-Chi (Florence) Lei - University of Saint Joseph, Macau, China
Mishita Mehra - Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
Jennifer Meredith - Colby College, Waterville, ME
Byunghoon Nam - Ministry of Finance, Seoul, Korea
Kara Ng - Russell Investments, Seattle, WA
Raghav Paul - EY (Ernst & Young), San Jose, CA
Anthony Sanford - Assistant Professor of finance at HEC Montreal, QC
Sangeetha Srinivasan - Russell Investments, Seattle, WA
Yun-Ling (Jocelyn) Wang - T-Mobile, Bellevue, WA
2016 - 2017
Mahama Samir Bandaogo - Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT [update: World Bank, Washington DC, US]
Vladimir Dashkeev - Seattle University, Seattle, WA
Nail Hassairi - University of Washington, Seattle, WA (postdoc)
Jenny Ho - Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Washington DC, US
Shih-Ting Huang - Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China
Seunghan Lee - Ministry of Finance, Seoul, Korea
Alexander (Sasha) Rodivilov - Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
2015 - 2016
Pasita Chaijaroen - College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Thomas Fillebeen - Amazon, Seattle, WA
Ming He - University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Alex Henke - Howard University, Washington DC, US
Yangguang (Sunny) Huang - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Alex Hubbard - Moody's Analytics, San Francisco, CA
Ying (Vivian) Jiang - Russell Investments, Seattle, WA
Kyungkeun Kim - Bank of Korea, Korea
David Oxborrow - KPMG, Denver, CO
Galip Kemal Özhan - Bank of Canada
Jorge Rojas Vallejos - Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso, Valparaíso, Chile
Inhwan So - Bank of Korea, Korea
Miaoyu Yang - Amazon, Seattle, WA
Muxin Zhai - University of Colorado - Boulder, CO (post-doc) [Update: Texas State U, San Marcos, TX]
2014 – 2015
Bijetri Bose - Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Daniel Brent - Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Yi-An Chen - Bank of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Sora Chon - Korea Institute for International Economics Policy [update: Korea Development Institute]
Kaihua Deng - Hanqing Institute at Renmin University, Beijing, China
Chien-Hao Fu - National Taipei University (Dept. of Public Finance), Taipei, Taiwan
Chasya Hoagland - Washington State Institute for Public Policy, Olympia, WA
Woo-Hyung Hong - Korea Institute of Public Finance
Nicholas Huntington-Klein - California State University, Fullerton, CA
Atsuko Izumi - Edgeworth Economics, Washington DC, US
Seojin Lee - Shanghai Finance University, Shanghai, China
Zhi Li - Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE)/Xiamen University, Xiamen,China
Ruixuan Liu - Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Edgar Luna - Universidad Autonóma de Nuevo León, Nuevo León, Mexico
Hui Mai - Chase Bank, Dallas, TX
Javier Pereira - Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
Syed Galib Sultan - State Street Corporation (Model Validation Group), Boston, MA
2013 – 2014
Shamma Alam - Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
Emre Aylar - Lund University, Scania, Sweden
Ercument Cahan - Bloomberg LP, New York, NY
Ranganai Gwati - Benedict College, Columbia, SC
Lin-chi Hsu - United International College, Zhuhai, China [update: Howard University, Washington DC, US]
Ben Keefer - Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Jaeho Kim - University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Sang Bum Ko - Financial Services Commission, Seoul, Korea
David Kuenzel - Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Clark Lundberg - San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Xuyang Ma - PanAgora Asset Management, Boston, MA
Skylar Olsen - Zillow, Seattle, WA
Justin Robertson - University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Joseph Sáenz - University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Alice Su - National Taipei University, Taipei, Taiwan
Yu-hsuan Su - National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
Xiaolin (Celine) Sun - Wealthfront, Palo Alto, CA
Ho Po (Crystal) Wong - West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
2012 – 2013
Joelle Abramowitz - Census Bureau, Washington DC, US [update: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI]
Joseph Dieleman - Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Seattle, WA
YuFan Huang - Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, China
Kohei Kiya - Japan International Cooperation Agency
Daeyong Lee - Peking University, Beijing, China
Dongwon Lee - University of California, Riverside, CA
Sui Luo - Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, China
Dan Wang - Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
2011 – 2012
Fei-Chien Chang - Swedish Medical Group, Seattle, WA
Brian Donhauser - AQR Capital Management, New York, NY
Rodica Gilles - Ernst & Young, Seattle, WA
Jee Young Lee - Russell Investments, Seattle, WA
Krisztina Nagy - Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA
Sumant Rai - University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
Benjamin (Daniel) Willard - Environmental Defense Fund, Austin, TX
2010 – 2011
Wahid Abdallah - BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
D. Mark Anderson - Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
Sungjin Cho - Korea Energy Economics Institute, Seoul, Korea
Lindy Helfman - Intellectual Ventures, Bellevue, WA [update: Amazon, Seattle, WA]
Cherl Hyun (Lucas) Kim - POSCO Research Institute, Seoul, Korea
Momoe Makino - Institute of Developing Economies, Chiba, Japan
Troy Scott - Lewis & Clark College, Portland [update: Research Triangle Institute, Durham, NC]
Jianguo Wang - Healthcare Services Corporation, Chicago, IL
2009 – 2010
Laura Berlinghieri (Middlesworth) - University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire [update: Marriott International]
Serpil Bouza - International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington DC, US
Jin Young Chung - Samsung Economic Research Institute, Seoul, Korea
Sebastian Fossati - University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Peter Fuleky - University of Hawaii Economics Research Organization, Honolulu, HI
Michael Hanlon - Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, Seattle, WA
Pym Manopimoke - University of Kansas [update: Bank of Thailand]
Yu-I Peng - National Taipei University, Taipei, Taiwan
Nalina Varanasi - Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, Seattle, WA
Edwin Wong - Northwest Center for Outcomes Research in Older Adults, Seattle, WA
Jin Sung Yoo - SK Research Institute, Seoul, Korea
2008 – 2009
Leif Anderson - Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NOAA), Seattle, WA
Giedrius Blazys - Uppsala University, Sweden [update – Euromonitor International/Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania]
Juyoung Cheong - University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Andrew Ewing - Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL [update – AOL Platforms, Seattle, WA]
Michael Hansen - Urban Institute, Washington DC, US [update – Brookings Institution, Washington DC, US]
Seongtae Kim - Korea Development Institute, Seoul, Korea
Murat Koyuncu - Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Christina Tapia - OSC Vocational Systems, Bothell, WA
Li-Chuan Tsai - Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen, China
Erin Vernon - Seattle University, Seattle, WA
Jelena Zurovac - Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton, NJ
2007 – 2008
Robin Anderson - Census Bureau, Washington, DC [update – Principal Global Investors, Des Moines, IA]
Saraswata Chaudhuri - University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill [update – McGill University, Montreal, Canada]
Yunmi Kim - University of Manitoba [update – University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea]
Pisut Kulthanavit - Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Tae Hyun Lee - Ministry of Finance, Seoul, Korea
Anna Lovász - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Scott Payseur - UBS Global Asset Management, London, UK
Nina Sidneva - Tacoma Power, Tacoma, WA [update – Seattle City Light, Seattle, WA]
Kwok Ping (Byron) Tsang - Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Alan van der Hilst - Congressional Budget Office [update – Pew Charitable Trusts, Washington DC, US]
2006 – 2007
Md Abul Basher - Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies [update - Asian Development Bank]
Ronald Caldwell - University of Kansas [update – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI]
Chun-hung (Frederick) Chen - Washington Mutual [update – KPMG]
Drew Creal - Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Harrison Fell - Resources for the Future
Christian Henn - International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington DC, US
Jun Ma - University of Alabama [update - Northeastern University, Boston, MA]
Daisuke Nagakura - Institute for Monetary and Economics Studies, Bank of Japan
Ceyda Öner - International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington DC, US
Bruce Wang - Goldman Sachs [update – Elysia]
2005 – 2006
Meherun Ahmed - Carlton College, Northfield, MN
Ying Gu - Bear Stearns, New York, NY
Erika Gulyas - Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
Yu-Ning Hwang - National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
Kazi Iqbal - World Bank Institute, Washington DC, US
Daniel Player - Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton, NJ [update – University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA]
Till Schreiber - College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Ekaterina Stepanova - Fannie Mae, Washington DC, US [update – U.S. Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC]
Wei-Choun Yu - Winona State University, MN [update - UCLA Anderson Forecast, Los Angeles, CA]
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