Career Placement
The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics is fully committed to the placement of its doctoral students in professional academic, nonacademic, and research positions in the United States and abroad.
Director of Graduate Placement
Manasi Deshpande
Director, Graduate Placement
Associate Professor in Economics and the College
Email: mdeshpande@uchicago.edu
Academic
Filippo Cavaleri (finance, macroeconomics)—University of Toronto
Joanna Harris (environmental, finance)—Emory University
Edward Jee (development, econometrics)—University of Oslo, postdoc at Northwestern University
Xianglong (Sean) Kong (international trade, industrial organization)—City University of Hong Kong, postdoc at University College London
Yehyun (Clara) Kyung (labor, education)—University of Chicago
Chun Pong (Conroy) Lau (econometrics)—University of South Carolina
Raman Singh Chhina (macroeconomics, finance)—King's College London
Haruka Uchida (labor, education, experimental)—Carnegie Mellon University
Karen Wu (industrial organization, microeconomic theory)—University of North Carolina, postdoc at University of Bonn
Public
Joseph Battles (health, public)—Federal Trade Commission
Rebecca Wu (development, labor)—Asian Development Bank
Private
Aditya Bhandari (spatial, trade, macroeconomics)—Cornerstone
Doga Akar Bilgin (finance)—Capital Fund Management
Michael Cuna (behavioral, experimental)—Walmart
Nimisha Gupta (international finance)—Capital One
Karan Jain (macroeconomics, public)—Uber
Ashton Pallottini (environmental, behavioral)—BRG Consulting
Nicolo Rizzotti (macroeconomics)—Compass Lexecon
Shijian Yang (spatial, trade)—Ellington Management Group
Postdoctorate
Chanwool Kim (public, industrial organization)—postdoc at University of Chicago
Feng Lin (trade, industrial organization)—postdoc at City University of Hong Kong
Hugo Lopez Lopez (labor)—postdoc at University of Chicago
Philip Michael Monagan (labor)—postdoc at University of Chicago
Academic
Thomas Bourany (macroeconomics)—Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Manav Chaudhary (asset pricing)—London School of Economics & Political Science
Joshua Higbee (industrial organization)—Ohio State University
Samuel Higbee (econometrics)—University of North Carolina
Shanon Hsuan-Ming Hsu (urban economics)—National Taiwan University, postdoc at Harvard University
Olivier Kooi (international trade)—London School of Economics & Political Science, postdoc at London School of Economics & Political Science
Federico Mainardi (finance)—Columbia University, postdoc at University of Chicago
Sasha Petrov (international trade)—University of Chicago
Camilla Schneier (industrial organization)—Boston University, postdoc at University of Chicago
Jeanne Sorin (development)—UC Berkeley, postdoc at University of Chicago
Oscar Volpe (labor)—Harvard University, postdoc at Harvard University
Thomas Wiemann (quantitative marketing)—University of Chicago, postdoc at University of Chicago
Public
Jordan Rosenthal-Kay (international trade)—Federal Reserve Board of San Francisco
Private
Chase Abram (macroeconomics)—Analysis Group
Daniel Ehrlich (macroeconomics)—Uber
Arjun Gopinath (industrial organization)—Uber, postdoc at University of Chicago
Maria Ignacia Cuevas de Saint Pierre (international trade)—Amazon
Xiaoyang Li (macroeconomics, economic growth)—Charles River Associates
Nadia Lucas (industrial organization)—Amazon
Benjamin Marrow (finance)—Citadel
Tanya Rajan (development)—Cornerstone
Grant Vaska (industrial organization)—Amazon
Postdoctorate
Thomas Hierons (urban economics, spatial)—postdoc at Princeton University
Varun Kapoor (development)—postdoc at Harvard University
Academic
Sulagna Dasgupta (microeconomic theory)—Cornell University, postdoc at University of Bonn
Santiago Franco (macroeconomics)—Boston University
Zhiyu Fu (international finance)—Washington University in St. Louis
Elena Istomina (microeconomic theory)—Princeton University, postdoc at University of Chicago
Toshiaki Komatsu (international trade)—National Taiwan University, postdoc at University College London
Ivan Kwok (labor)—Brown University
Marco Loseto (industrial organization)—Bocconi University
Sangmin Oh (financial economics)—Columbia University
Aleksei Oskolkov (macroeconomics)—Princeton University, postdoc at Yale University
Estéfano Rubio (political economy)—Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, postdoc at University of Rochester
Francesco Ruggieri (public)—University of Virginia, postdoc at University of Chicago
Sidharth Sah (labor)—NYU
Marcos Sora (international economics)—University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, postdoc at Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics
Michael Varley (financial economics)—University of Kentucky
Public
Michael Galperin (labor)—Department of Justice
Tugce Turk (macroeconomics)—Bank of New York
Private
Scott Behmer (public finance)—RAND
Hazen Eckert (microeconomic theory)—Tibra
Jingtao Zheng (international finance)—Citadel Securities
Postdoctorate
Furkan Kilic (economic growth)—postdoc at University of Chicago
Nadav Kunievsky (microeconomic theory)—postdoc at University of Chicago
Academic
Oguz Bayraktar (industrial organization)—University of Bath, postdoc at University of Oxford
Levi Crews (macroeconomics)—UCLA
Agustin Gutierrez (international trade, macroeconomics)—University of Wisconsin
Takuma Habu (microeconomic theory)—Cornell University
Xindi He (finance)—Georgia Tech
Eyo Herstad (econometrics)—Erasmus University Rotterdam, postdoc at Ohio State University
Fulin Li (finance)—Texas A&M
Jonas Lieber (econometrics)—Imperial College London, postdoc at Yale University
Jiarui Liu (industrial organization)—NYU
Myungkou Shin (econometrics)—University of Surrey, postdoc at University of Oxford
Mateusz Stalinski (macroeconomics)—University of Warwick
Public
Andrea Mattia (labor)—Bank of Italy
Harshil Sahai (development)—World Bank
Younghun Shim (macroeconomics)—International Monetary Fund
Antonis Tsiflis (macroeconomics)—World Bank
Private
Sergei Bazylik (econometrics)—Analysis Group
Hwikook Choe (industrial organization)—Samsung Card
Yusheng Fei (finance)—PIMCO
Sota Ichiba (behavioral)—CyberAgent AI Lab, postdoc at Tilburg University
Esperanza Johnson (industrial organization)—Cornerstone, postdoc at University of Chicago
Jack Light (econometrics)—Planbase
Postdoctorate
Andrew Choi (microeconomic theory)—postdoc at Bocconi University
Neil Cholli (labor)—postdoc at Cornell University
Academic
Ahmed Ahmed (finance)—Babson College
Ehsan Azarmsa (finance)—University of Oklahoma
Suleyman Gozen (macroeconomics)—University of Bristol
Rafael Jiminez (behavioral)—Bocconi University, postdoc at Social Science Research Council
Max Kellogg (econometrics)—University of Oslo
Hyejin Park (macroeconomics)—Université de Montréal
Marta Prato (macroeconomics)—Bocconi University, postdoc at Yale University
Joshua Shea (econometrics, applied microeconomics)—University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Juhana Siljander (macroeconomics)—Imperial College London
Public
Francisca Sara-Zaror (macroeconomics)—Federal Reserve Board of Governors
James Traina (economic growth)—Federal Reserve Board of San Francisco
Private
Francisco del Villar (industrial organization)—Meta
Ning Ding (labor)—Cornerstone
Mengyue He (econometrics)—Twitter
Daniel Kashner (behavioral)—McKinsey & Company
Ivan Kirov (macroeconomics)—Analysis Group
Josh Morris-Levenson (macroeconomics)—Cornerstone
Negin Mousavi (macroeconomics)—Ernst & Young Global
Ricardo Quineche (macroeconomics)—Amazon
Laura Sale (labor)—Cornerstone

