Alumni Who've Gone on for PhDs in Economics and Related Fields

In a 2015 study, Williams College ranked first among all US colleges and universities in terms of the share of its recent undergraduate degree recipients who eventually went on to earn a Ph.D. in economics. The table below lists Williams College graduates who majored in economics or political economy (POEC), or earned a master’s at the CDE, and went on for a Ph.D., or became professors, in economics or a related field. Also included are any other alumni of Williams College who have gone on for a Ph.D. in economics. Toggle the sorting tabs to sort by name, school, class year, etc., or enter a word in the box to filter by that term.

Name Class Ph.D. Institution (and Subject) Selected Current or Past Positions or Honors
Hyejin Abarcar 2006 University of Michigan (Economics) Senior Economist at applEcon
Brooke A. Ackerly 1988 Stanford (Political Science) Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University
Kaikaus Ahmad 2000 (CDE) UT Dallas (Public Policy and Political Economy) Secretary of Power Division, Ministry of Power, Energy & Mineral Resources, Govt. of Bangladesh
Ashvin Ahuja 1995 University of Minnesota (Economics) Advisor to the Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Robert Ainsworth 2013 Columbia University (Economics) Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Florida
Kamiljon Akramov 2000 (CDE) Rand Pardee Graduate School (Policy Analysis) Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute
Diala Al Masri 2015 (CDE) Oxford (Development Economics and International Development) Junior Dean at St. John's College, Oxford; Currently Working Towards Ph.D.; Rhodes Scholar
Alex Albright 2014 Harvard (Economics) Research Economist with the Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute at the Minneapolis Fed
Yeva Aleksanyan 2012 (CDE) Colorado State University (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Treb Allen 2006 (POEC) Yale (Economics) Associate Professor of Economics at Dartmouth
Robert Aliber 1952 Yale (Economics) Professor Emeritus of International Economics and Finance, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Jose Roberto Almeida 1968 (CDE) George Washington University (Economics) Economist at Central Bank of Brazil; Professor at University of Brasilia
Kate Ambler 2005 University of Michigan (Economics) Research Fellow at International Food Policy Research Institute
Amy Ando 1990 MIT (Economics) Professor of Agricultural & Consumer Economics at University of Illinois
John Angle 1968 University of Michigan (Sociology) Researcher at Inequality Process Institute; Statistician at Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Garrett Anstreicher 2015 University of Wisconsin (Economics) Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
C. Ross Anthony 1968 University of Pennsylvania (Economics) Senior Economist at the RAND Corporation
William Apgar 1968 Harvard (Economics) Senior Scholar at Harvard Kennedy School of Govt.
Nick Arnosti 2011 Stanford (Management Science and Engineering) Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Minnesota
Samir Ashraf 2017 (CDE) University of Nebraska - Lincoln (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Paul E. Atkinson 1967 Cambridge (Economics) Senior Research Fellow, Groupe d’Economie Mondiale, Sciences-Po; formerly Economist at OECD
Scott E. Atkinson 1966 University of Colorado (Economics) Professor of Economics at University of Georgia
Richard Attiyeh 1958 Yale (Economics) Professor Emeritus of Economics at UC San Diego
Zach Babat 2021 University of Wisconsin (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Ivan Badinski 2014 MIT (Economics) Postdoctoral Associate in the Economics Department at Yale University
Vladimir Bajic 1975 (CDE) University of Toronto (Economics) Associate Professor of Economics at University of Windsor
Nancy Baldiga 1980 Bentley College (M.S. Taxation) Professor of Accounting at College of the Holy Cross
Katherine Baldiga Coffman 2007 Harvard (Economics) Piramal Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School
Richard J Ball 1984 UC Berkeley (Agricultural and Resource Economics) Professor of Economics; Coordinator of Mathematical Economics at Haverford College
Holti Banka 2010 University of Maryland (Public Policy) Financial Sector Specialist at the World Bank
Charles Baschnagel 2005 University of Maryland (Economics) Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton
Arkey Barnett 2019 University of Michigan (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Martin R. Barrett 1954 Harvard (Economics)
Amanda Bayer 1981 Yale (Economics) Franklin and Betty Barr Professor of Economics, Department Chair at Swarthmore College
Jack H. Beebe 1964 Stanford (Economics) Was an Economist at Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
David Berson 1976 University of Michigan (Economics) Chief Economist & Senior VP at Nationwide Insurance
Jere Behrman 1962 MIT (Economics) Professor of Economics at University of Pennsylvania
Saroj Bhattarai 2005 Princeton (Economics) Associate Professor of Economics at University of Texas
Kathy Bi 2018 University of Pennsylvania Wharton School (Applied Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Ari Binder 2011 University of Michigan (Economics) Economist at U.S. Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies
Cagatay Bircan 2007 University of Michigan (Economics) Senior Research Economist at European Bank for Reconstruction & Development
Meg Blume-Kohout 1996 Pardee RAND Graduate School (Policy Analysis) Assistant Professor at Gettysburg College
Alberto Borges-Fallas 1979 (CDE) Clemson University (Economics) Associate Professor at Universidad de Costa Rica; Independent Consultant
Sebastien Bradley 2002 University of Michigan (Economics) Associate Professor of Economics at Drexel University
Robin Broad 1976 Princeton Woodrow Wilson School (Public Affairs) Professor of International Development at American University
Harry Gunnison Brown 1904 Yale (Economics) Was an Economics Professor at University of Missouri
Birendra Budha 2015 (CDE) University of Connecticut (Economics) Deputy Director in the Research Department of the Nepal Rastra Bank
Fiona (Wilkes) Burlig 2012 UC Berkeley (Agricultural and Resource Economics) Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy; Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research
Anand Butler 2019 University of Colorado (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Jessica Calfee Stahl 2003 Boston University (Economics) Economist, Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice
Paul Calluzzo 2006 Rutgers University (Finance) Associate Professor and Toller Family Fellow of Finance, Smith School of Business, Queen's University in Canada
Bumi Camara 2010 (CDE) University of Göttingen (Development Economics) Economist at African Development Bank Group
Colin Cannonier 2004 (CDE) Louisiana State University (Economics) Associate Professor of Economics & GLO Fellow at Belmont University
Gerard Caprio 1972 University of Michigan (Economics) William Brough Professor of Economics at Williams College
Cesar Carrera Yalan 2004 (CDE) UC Santa Cruz (International Economics) Senior Economist at Central Reserve Bank of Peru
William Chen 2019 MIT (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Ma Monayem Chowdhury 1963 (CDE) Temple University (Economics) Economics Professor at Cheyney University
Peter B. Clark 1956 MIT (International Economics) President of Swift River Company; formerly Economist at the World Bank
Stephen Colt 1981 MIT (Economics) Researcher for Alaska Center for Energy and Power; former Professor of Economics at University of Alaska Anchorage
Roxanne Corbeil 2019 UCLA (Sociology) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Carolyn Craven 1979 (POEC) Yale (Economics) Associate Professor of Economics at Middlebury College
John E. Cremeans 1950 American University (Economics) Was Economist at US Bureau of Economic Analysis
Pablo Cuba Borda 2008 (CDE) University of Maryland (Economics) Economist for Federal Reserve Board of Governors
David Dapice 1966 Harvard (Economics) Economist at Harvard Ash Center for Democratic Governance & Innovation; Professor Emeritus of Economics at Tufts University
Wade Davis 2013 Yale (Environmental and Natural Resource Economics) Environmental Protection Agency; NCEE
Fabrizio Ardiles Decker 2016 University of Nottingham (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Benjamin Delgado 2021 Brown University (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Andrew Diemer 1997 Temple University (History) Associate Professor of History at Towson University
Rocky Douglas 2019 Brown (Sociology) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Daniel Drezner 1996 (POEC) Stanford (Political Science) Professor of International Politics, Tufts Fletcher School
F. Trenery Dolbear 1957 Yale (Economics) Professor Emeritus of Economics at Brandeis University
Jennifer Doleac 2003 Stanford (Economics) Associate Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University
Yang Du 2010 Harvard (Economics) Sr. Associate, Business Operations and Strategy at Google
Robert Dulin 2019 Princeton (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Richard A. Dunn 2002 University of Wisconsin (Economics) Associate Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at University of Connecticut
Robert M. Dunn, Jr. 1960 Stanford (Economics) Was a Professor of Economics at George Washington University
Misha Dworsky 2004 Stanford (Economics) Senior Economist; Faculty, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Susan Edelman 1981 Stanford (Economics) Formerly Assistant Professor of Economics at Columbia University and Economist at US Department of Defense
Lawrence Egulu 2002 (CDE) Nova Southeastern University (Conflict Analysis and Resolution) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Coly Elhai 2019 Harvard (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Ahmed El Shazly 2005 (CDE) Sadat Academy, Cairo, Egypt (Economics) Economist at Arab Monetary Fund
John Emerson 1992 Yale (Statistics) Adjunct Professor of Statistics and Data Science and Co-Director of Graduate Studies at Yale University
Robert Engle 1964 Cornell (Economics) Winner of 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics;  Professor of Management and Financial Services at NYU Stern School of Business; Professor Emeritus of Economics at UC San Diego
Keith Ericson 2004 Harvard (Economics) Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy, and Law at Boston University's Questrom School of Business
Damir Esenaliev 2003 (CDE) DIW Berlin Graduate Center (Economics) Senior Researcher at Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
James Falvey 1963 Michigan State University (Economics) Was an Economist at Montana Power Company
Joseph Ferrie 1983 University of Chicago (Economics) Professor and Department Chair of Economics at Northwestern University
John Finnerty 1971 Naval Postgraduate School (Operations Research) Professor of Finance and Business Economics at Fordham University; Managing Principal of Finnerty Economic Consulting
Jeff Fossett 2013 Harvard Business School (Technology and Operations Management) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Kristin Forbes 1992 MIT (Economics) Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Global Economics at MIT’s Sloan School of Management; former member of President's Council of Economic Advisors
Nikhar Gaikwad 2006 Yale (Political Science) Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University
William Byram Gates Jr. 1939 University of Chicago (Economics) Was Professor of Economics at Williams College
Evan Gee 2004 Boston University (Economics) Economist at the US Department of Justice
Christopher Geissler 2006 Duke (Economics) Principal Economist at ISO New England
Kimberley Geissler 2006 University of North Carolina (Health Policy and Management) Associate Professor in Health Policy and Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Malcolm Getz 1967 Yale (Economics) Associate Professor Emeritus at Vanderbilt University
Will Gillespie 1985 Yale (Economics) Was Economist in Antitrust Division, US Department of Justice
Stephen Golub 1974 Yale (Economics) Professor of Economics at Swarthmore College
Feixue (Mary) Gong 2016 MIT (Economics) Associate at Cornerstone Research
Eban Goodstein 1982 University of Michigan (Economics) Director, Center for Environmental Policy; Director and faculty, Bard MBA in Sustainability
Edward Gramlich 1961 Yale (Economics) Was Professor of Economics and Public Policy at University of Michigan, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and Acting Director of the Congressional Budget Office
Fred Gramlich 1969 Harvard (Economics) Was Economist in Antitrust Division of US Department of Justice
Andy Grewal 2002 University of Michigan (J.D.); Georgetown (L.L.M.) Professor of Law and Joseph F. Rosenfield Fellow in Law at University of Iowa Law School
Keith Griffin 1960 Oxford (Economics) Professor of Economics at UC Riverside
Zachary J. Grossman 1999 UC Berkeley (Economics) Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Business Management, University of Californa, Merced
Amy Jocelyn Glass 1988 University of Pennsylvania (Economics) Associate Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University
Melissa Groves 1993 UMass Amherst (Economics) Associate Professor of Economics at Towson University
Thomas Gustafson 1969 Yale (Economics) Senior Policy Advisor at Arnold & Porter, formerly Deputy Director and Acting Director of the Center for Medicare Management
Eric Gustafson 1955 Harvard (Economics) Was Lecturer in Economics at UC Davis
Peter Gutmann 1949 Harvard (Economics) Professor of Economics at Baruch College
Helene Hall 2018 Harvard (Business Economics) Currently working towards Ph.D.
Todd Hall 2016 (POEC) University of Virginia (Education) Currently working towards Ph.D.
Jasper (Scheppe) Haller 2011 University of Mannheim (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Emma Harrington 2015 Harvard (Economics) Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Iowa
James Quigley Harrison 1966 Princeton (Economics) Formerly an Economist at International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Amelia (Molly) Hawkins 2008 University of Michigan (Economics) Post-Doctoral Fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research, and Assistant Professor of Economics at Brandeis University
Daniel Arturo Heller 1996 University of Tokyo (Business Admin.) Specially Appointed Professor at Chuo University
Danny Hernaiz 2004 (CDE) University of Maryland (Economics) Lead Economist, Strategic Task Force, Office of the Chief of Staff and Strategy at Inter-American Development Bank
James Hollyer 2003 (POEC) NYU (Political Science) Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota
Catherine "Cappy" Bond Hill 1976 Yale (Economics) Former Professor of Economics at Williams College, and President of Vassar College
Brad Howells 2002 UC Berkeley (Economics) Vice President at Cornerstone Research
Sayed Ajaz Hussain 1989 Brown (Economics) Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, at University of Toronto
Yue-Yi Hwa 2011 University of Cambridge (Education) Research Fellow at the Research on Improving Systems of Education
Emily Irving 2016 (POEC) Harvard Business School (Organizational Behavior & Sociology) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.; Freelance Writer and Research Consultant
Emily Isenberg 1998 Syracuse University (Economics) Senior Researcher at American Institutes for Research, formerly Economist at US Census Bureau
Darby Jack 1997 Harvard (Public Policy) Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
David Jaeger 1986 University of Michigan (Economics) Professor of Economics, University of St Andrews
Phakawa On Jeasakul 2005 UC Berkeley (Economics) Economist at International Monetary Fund
Robert T. Jensen 1993 Princeton (Economics) Professor of Economics; Director of the Program on Social Enterprise at Yale School of Management
Saumitra Jha 1999 Stanford (Economics) Associate Professor of Political Economy at Stanford Graduate School of Business
Richard Jin 2018 Berkeley (Economics) Currently working towards Ph.D.
Pimchanok Anne Jirapattanakul 2005 Columbia (Economics)
Robert Johnston 1990 University of Rhode Island (Environmental and Natural Resource Economics) Professor of Economics at Clark University
Mahbubul Kabir 1992 (CDE) University of Nebraska (Economics) Associate Professor of Economics at Lyon College
David Kane 1988 Harvard (Political Economy and Government) Former Preceptor of Statistical Methods and Mathematics in Harvard Department of Government, former Managing Director at Hutchin Hill Capital Management
Ramon Katigbak 1967 (CDE) Lyceum of the Philippines (Fiscal Studies) Was professor at Jose Rizal University in the Philippines
Roger Kaufman 1971 MIT (Economics) Professor of Economics at Smith College
Owen Kay 2017 University of Michigan (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Michael Keren 1963 (CDE) Yale (Economics) Professor Emeritus of Economics at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Shahrukh Rafi Khan 1976 (CDE) University of Michigan (Economics) Taught Economics at Vassar, Mount Holyoke, and Amherst
Kenneth Kersch 1986 Cornell (Government) Professor of Political Science at Boston College
Irina Khindanova 1995 (CDE) UC Santa Barbara (Economics) Teaching Associate Professor, Daniels College of Business, University of Denver
Matthew Kim 2001 University of Wisconsin (Economics) Associate Professor and Director of Data Analytics Major Program at University of St. Thomas
Tetteh Kofi 1963 UC Berkeley (Development Economics) Taught Economics at Stanford, Notre Dame, and University of San Francisco
Josephat Koima 2012 Michigan State University (Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Olga Kondratjeva 2010 Ohio State University (Public Policy Analysis) Operations Research Specialist at Employment Security Department
Edwin Kuh 1949 Harvard (Economics) Was a Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management
Paul Kwon 1990 Penn State University (Psychology) Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training at University of Nevada, Reno College of Science
Apoorva Lal 2015 Stanford (Political Science) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Pawel Langer 2012 NYU (Economics) Senior Consultant at Deloitte
Richard N. Langlois 1974 Stanford (Engineering-Economics Systems) Professor of Economics at University of Connecticut
Hailey Le 2023 Vanderbilt University (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
John Leahy 1984 Princeton (Economics) Allen Sinai Professor of Macroeconomics and Public Policy at University of Michigan
Robert Lee 1970 Johns Hopkins (Economics) Professor of Health Policy and Management at University of Kansas
Soo Ann Lee 1961 (CDE) University of Singapore Senior Fellow at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Susan Lee 1991 University of Wisconsin (Economics) Co-Founder of Methane Action
James Levinsohn 1981 (POEC) Princeton (Economics) Charles Goodyear Professor of Global Affairs, Professor of Economics and Management, and founding Director of the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale
Ethan Lewis 1995 UC Berkeley (Economics) Professor of Economics at Dartmouth
Stephen R. Lewis 1960 Stanford (Economics) Formerly Professor of Economics at Williams College and President of Carleton College
Asad Liaqat 2011 (POEC) Harvard (Public Policy) Research Scientist at Meta
Isaac Loh 2015 Northwestern (Economics) Assistant Professor of Economics at Cameron School of Business, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Joe Long 2013 Northwestern (Economics) Data Scientist at Research Improving People's Lives
Ziqi Lu 2018 Harvard (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Peter Lugthart 2018 University of Pennsylvania Wharton School (Applied Economics) Currently Working Towards, Ph.D.; NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Moogdho Mahzab 2014 (CDE) University of Virginia (Economics) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University
Charles K. Mann 1956 Harvard (Economics) Was Economist at USAID
Kristina Manysheva 2014 (CDE) Northwestern (Economics) Postdoc at Princeton; Will join Economics Department at Columbia Business School as an Assistant Professor of Economics in 2023
Marina Mavungu 2017 (CDE) Tufts University (Economics and Public Policy) Economist / Young Professional Program at World Bank
E. Scott Mayfield 1981 University of Pennsylvania (Economics) Senior Lecturer in Business Administration at Harvard Business School
Ross McConnell 1980 University of Colorado (Computer Science) Associate Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Colorado State University
Ryan McDevitt 2002 Northwestern (Economics) Associate Professor of Economics at Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Brett McDonnell 1985 Stanford (Economics) Dorsey & Whitney Chair in Law at University of Minnesota Law School
Paul McGreal 1989 Southern Methodist University (J.D.) Professor and Ministry Program Director at Creighton University Law School
Richard McDowell 2009 MIT (Economics) Staff Data Scientist at Twitter
Caitlin McGugan 2009 Princeton (Economics) Senior Fellow at GiveWell
Michael McKelvey 1974 University of Pennsylvania (Business Economics) Director and Interim CEO at TARGET PharmaSolutions; formerly Economist at Data Resources, Inc. and US Bureau of Economic Analysis
Carl McPherson 2014 UC Berkeley (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Charles E. Metcalf 1965 MIT (Economics) Former President and CEO of Mathematica
Nino Mikeladze 2020 (CDE) Tbilisi State University, Georgia (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Jane (Uretz) Miller 1981 University of Pennsylvania (Demography) Professor and Faculty Mentoring Director at Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University
Refat Ahmed Mishuk 2018 (CDE) University of New Mexico (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
John W. Mitchell 1966 University of Oregon (Economics) Formerly Professor of Economics at Boise State University, and Chief Economist at US Bancorp
Herbert Mohring 1950 MIT (Economics) Was Professor of Economics at University of Minnesota
Peter Moock 1963 Columbia (Economics) Formerly Economist at World Bank, and Associate Professor of Economics at Teacher's College, Columbia University
Eric Monke 1974 Stanford (Economics) Was Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at University of Arizona
Joel N. Morse 1972 University of Massachusetts Amherst (Business Administration) Professor of Finance at University of Baltimore
Mwaso Mnensa 2018 (CDE) University of Minnesota (Applied Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Erica Moszkowski 2015 Harvard (Business Economics) Economist at Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Erich Muehlegger 1997 MIT (Economics) Associate Professor of Economics at UC Davis
Tinatin Mumladze 2018 (CDE) American University (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Richard Murnane 1966 Yale (Economics) Thompson Research Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
Robert G. Murphy 1979 MIT (Economics) Associate Professor of Economics at Boston College
Stewart Myers 1962 Stanford Professor of Finance, Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management
Silver Namunane 2014 (CDE) University of Minnesota (Applied Economics) Economist at the World Bank
Michael Navarrete 2016 University of Maryland (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Guyslain Kayembe Ngeleza 2003 (CDE) Purdue (Agricultural Economics) Senior Agricultural Economist at The World Bank
Giang Nghiem 2012 (CDE) Goethe University in Frankfurt (Economics) Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Money and International Finance, Leibniz University Hannover
Borel Nguimfack 2020 (CDE) George Washington University (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Nghia (Nick) Nguyen 2019 (CDE) American University (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Walter Nicholson 1964 MIT (Economics) Professor Emeritus of Economics at Amherst College
Walter Nord 1961 Washington University (Social Psychology) Professor of Management at University of South Florida Muma College of Business
John H. Ohly Jr. 1964 Boston University (Economics) Was Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Robert Olsen 1990 Cornell (Economics) Associate Director at Westat; Research Professor at George Washington Institute of Public Policy
Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat 1999 (POEC) MIT (Economics) Mallya Professor of Women and Economics at Barnard College
Terrance O'Reilly 1978 Stanford (Economics) Associate Professor at Willamette University Law School
Aissatou Ouedraogo 2006 (CDE) Michigan State University (Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics) IMMANA Postdoctoral Fellow, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
Felix Owusu 2011 Harvard (Public Policy) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvard University
Diane Owen 1983 Yale (Economics) Economist in the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice
Bruce M. Owen 1965 Stanford (Economics) Professor Emeritus of Public Policy at Stanford; Formerly Chief Economist of Antitrust Division at US Department of Justice
José Pacas 2008 University of Minnesota (Applied Economics) Research Scientist, Minnesota Population Center
Lucy Page 2016 MIT (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.; NSF Graduate Research Fellow
John Palmer 1965 Stanford (Economics) Professor, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
Anjali Pai 2019 UC San Diego (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Stefan Papaioannou 1998 University of Maryland (History) Assistant Professor of History at Framingham State University
John Parman 2002 Northwestern (Economics) Associate Professor of Economics at William & Mary
Prasannan Parthasarathi 1983 Harvard (History) Professor and Chairperson of the History Department at Boston College
Abdul Pathan 1981 (CDE) University of Houston (Economics) Professor of Economics at Pennsylvania College of Technology
Ahna Pearson 2020 University of Michigan (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Arthur Latham Perry 1852 Was Professor of Political Economy at Williams College, nationally-known advocate for free trade, and author of a leading economics textbook
William Perttula 1968 Golden Gate University (Business Management) Professor of Marketing, Emeritus, San Francisco State University
Dianne Pfundstein Chamberlain 2006 Columbia (Political Science) Adjunct Associate Research Scholar in the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
John Phillips 2002 (POEC) Brown (Political Science) Assistant Professor of Political Science at Austin Peay State University
Steven T. Phillips 1983 UC Berkeley (Economics) Economist at the International Monetary Fund
Thomas Piper 1959 Harvard (Finance) Professor at Harvard Business School
Stephen Polasky 1979 University of Michigan (Economics) Professor of Ecological and Environmental Economics at University of Minnesota
David Popp 1992 Yale (Economics) Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs, Maxwell School, Syracuse University
Richard Porter 1953 Yale (Economics) Was Professor of Economics at University of Michigan
Tejesh Pradhan 2013 American University (Economics) Consultant in the South Asia Poverty unit at the World Bank
Brian Prest 2009 Duke (Energy and Environmental Economics) Economist and Fellow at Resources for the Future
Olena Prokopovych 1994 Cornell (Political Science) Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of the Political Science Undergraduate Program in History, Politics, and Law at Nazareth College
Ronald Promboin 1966 Stanford (Economics) Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland University College
Daniel Puskin 2000 Brown (Economics) Professorial Lecturer of Public Administration and Policy, American University
Eleanor Putnam-Farr 2000 MIT Sloan School of Management (Management) Assistant Professor of Marketing, Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University
Tarun Ramadorai 1996 Harvard (Business Economics) Professor of Financial Economics at Imperial College London
Kolleen Rask 1982 Yale (Economics) Professor of Economics at the College of the Holy Cross
Robert W. Raynsford 1957 Harvard (Economics) Former Chief Economist, US Army, and Economist at US Office of Management and Budget
Matt Resseger 2005 Harvard (Economics) Senior Economist at Boston Planning & Development Agency
Andrew Roberts 1992 Princeton (Political Science) Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Political Science Northwestern
Charlie Rock 1970 Cornell (Economics, Planning, and Development) Professor of Economics at Rollins College
Glenn Rogers 1979 University of Wisconsin (Regional and Resource Economics) Economist at U.S. Agency for International Development
Martha Rogers 2007 University of Minnesota (Applied Economics) Economist at the Nature Conservancy
Steven S. Rogers 1979 Harvard Business School (MBA) Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Sarah Rosenberg 2014 (POEC) European Center for Research in Economics and Statistics, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Economics) Postdoctoral Fellow in Department of Economics at Lund University
Brandon Romero 2015 University of Michigan (Political Science) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Daniel Rosenblum 2002 Yale (Economics) Associate Professor of Economics at Dalhousie University
Christine Ross 1981 University of Wisconsin (Economics) Principal Researcher at Mathematica Policy Research
David Ross 1977 Northwestern (Economics) Associate Professor of Economics at Bryn Mawr College
Martin Rotemberg 2008 Harvard (Business Economics) Assistant Professor of Economics at NYU
Bruce Rutherford 1984 (POEC) Yale (Political Science) Associate Professor of Political Science at Colgate University
AnnaLee Saxenian 1976 MIT (Political Science) Professor and Dean at UC Berkeley School of Information
Bill Schiano 1988 Harvard (Business Administration) Professor of Computer and Information Systems at Bentley University
Jeanne Schroeder 1975 Stanford (J.D.) Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Susan Schwab 1976 George Washington University (Public Administration and International Business) Professor at University of Maryland School of Public Policy, and former U.S. Trade Representative
James Scott 1958 (POEC) Yale (Political Science) Professor of Political Science at Yale
Amy Searight 1988 (POEC) Stanford (Political Science) Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia
Thomas Selden 1980 University of Wisconsin (Economics) Economist at Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Vojislav Sesum 2006 Stanford (Finance) Quantitative Equity with Squarepoint Capital
John Setear 1981 Yale (J.D.) Class of 1962 Professor of Law at University of Virginia
Abu Zafar Shahriar 2007 (CDE) Purdue University (Consumer Sciences and Retailing) Associate Professor of Banking and Finance at Monash University in Australia
Abdelaleem Sharshar 1963 (CDE) George Washington University (Economimics) Was Economics Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University
Meghan Shea 2011 University of Texas (Economics) Economist at Abt Associates
Haoyu Sheng 2020 Brown (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Gea Hyun Shin 2011 Harvard (Economics)
Robert D. Sleeper 1961 Oxford (Economics) Formerly Head of the Banking Department at Bank for International Settlements
Alexander Smith 2006 University of Virginia (Economics) Assistant Professor of Economics at United States Military Academy
Eric Smith 1983 University of Pennsylvania (Economics) Professor of Economics at University of Essex
Stephen Smith 1979 Stanford (Economics) Professor of Economics at Hope College
Nadia Soboleva 1993 (CDE) Yale (Economics) Principal at the Antitrust & Competition Economics practice at Charles River Associates
William Spriggs 1977 University of Wisconsin (Economics) Professor of Economics at Howard University and Chief Economist to the AFL-CIO
Jessica Calfee Stahl 2003 Boston University (Economics) Economist at Antitrust Division of US Department of Justice
Becky Staiger 2009 Yale (Health Policy and Management) Health Policy Researcher and Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University School of Medicine
Douglas Staiger 1983 MIT (Economics) John Sloan Dickey Third Century Professor in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth
Matthew Staiger 2012 University of Maryland (Economics) Research Scientist at Opportunity Insights
Robert W. Staiger 1980 University of Michigan (Economics) Roth Family Distinguished Professor in the Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College; and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Jillian Stallman 2016 Yale (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.; NSF Graduate Research Fellow
William Steel 1964 MIT (Economics) Adjunct Professor, Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research at University of Ghana; formerly Economist at World Bank
Herbert Stein 1935 University of Chicago (Economics) Was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Nixon and Ford, and an Economist at the Committee for Economic Development and the American Enterprise Institute
Dana Stevens 1967 Stanford (Economics) Was Professor of Finance at American University of Armenia
John Straka 1980 Cornell (Economics) Senior Vice President, Model Risk Management at PNC; formerly Economist at Social Security Administration
Steven Stillman 1994 University of Washington (Economics) Professor of Economics at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Ellen Stuart 2011 University of Michigan (Economics) Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at The University of Sydney School of Economics
Sugeng Sugeng 1992 (CDE) Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia (Economics) Deputy Governor at Central Bank of Indonesia
Dennis H. Sullivan 1967 Princeton (Economics) Professor Emeritus of Economics at Miami University of Ohio
Matthew Summers 2007 University of Maryland (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Wei Sun 2013 Harvard (Business Economics) Graduate Teaching Fellow at Harvard University
Thomas Synnott 1958 Yale (Economics) Chief Economist, Emeritus, U.S. Trust Company of NY; and Adjunct Prof. of Industrial Engineering at Cooper Union
Bartley Tablante 2007 University of Michigan (Economics) Principal at Keystone Strategy
Matthew Tarduno 2016 UC Berkeley (Agricultural and Resource Economics) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment; joining University of Illinois at Chicago Economics Department in Fall 2023
Joshua Teitelbaum 1993 Cornell (Economics) Anne Fleming Research Professor and Professor of Law at Georgetown University
David Terkla 1975 UC Berkeley (Economics) Professor of Economics and Dean at University of Massachusetts Boston
Henry Terrell 1964 Stanford (Economics) Lecturer in Economics at George Washington University; formerly Economist at Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Karen Thome 2003 UC Davis (Agricultural and Resource Economics) International Economist at U.S. International Trade Commission
Matthew Thomas 2017 Northwestern (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Lester Thurow 1960 (POEC) Harvard (Economics) Was Professor of Economics and Dean of MIT's Sloan School of Management
Martha Myslinski Tipton 2001 Emory University (Business) Economic Specialist at United States Embassy Singapore
Richard W. Tresch 1965 MIT (Economics) Professor Emeritus of Economics at Boston College
Khoa Dang Truong 2000 (CDE) Pardee RAND Graduate School (Policy Analyisis) Associate Professor of Public Health at Clemson University
Jade Vichyanond 2005 Princeton (Economics) Economist at ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office
Jeffrey Wang 2016 Harvard (Economics) Uber
Zhaoning (Nancy) Wang 2012 Harvard (Economics) Senior Economist at Compass Lexecon
Christopher Warshaw 2002 Stanford (Political Science) Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University
Andrew Weiss 1968 (POEC) Stanford (Economics) Professor Emeritus of Economics, Boston University and Founder; CEO of Weiss Asset Management
Amy Whitaker 1996 Goldsmiths, University of London (Political Economy) Associate Professor, NYU Department of Art and Art Professions
Hunter Wieman 2020 Princeton (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Matthew Wibbenmeyer 2007 UC Santa Barbara (Economics) Fellow at Resources for the Future
David Wilcox 1980 MIT (Economics) Formerly Director of Research for the Federal Reserve
Paul Willen 1990 Yale (Economics) Senior Economist and Policy Advisor Research at Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Colin Williams 2018 University of Virginia (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.
Jeffrey Williams 1975 Yale (Economics) Professor Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics at UC Davis
Joseph T. Williams 1969 Harvard (Economics) Was Professor of Finance at University of British Columbia and NYU
Martin Williams 2007 London School of Economics (Government) Associate Professor of Public Management at University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government
Jeremy Wilmer 1998 Harvard (Psychology) Associate Professor of Psychology at Wellesley College
John F. Wilson 1964 University of Pennsylvania (Economics) Formerly Economist at Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Robert Chapman Wood 1971 Boston University (Business Administration) Professor at San Jose State University School of Management
Richard Woodbury 1983 Harvard (Economics) Program Administrator, Aging and Health Care, National Bureau of Economic Research; former Maine State Senator and Representative
Zoe Leiyu Xie 2010 University of Minnesota (Economics) Senior Economist, Chief Economist Office for South Asia at the World Bank
Wentao Xiong 2011 Harvard (Economics) Research Associate at Goldman Sachs, London
Ya Xu 2006 Stanford (Statistics) Head of Data and AI at LinkedIn
Zhichun Jenny Ying 2008 Stanford (Economics) Data Scientist & Economist at LinkedIn
Noam Yuchtman 2005 Harvard (Economics) Professor of Managerial Economics and Strategy and Deputy Head of Department , London School of Economics
Woldegebriel Zemedkun 1975 (CDE) University of Cincinnati (Finance) Professor of Finance at University of Cincinnati, Ball State University and Norfolk State University
Ariel Zetlin-Jones 2004 (POEC) University of Minnesota (Economics) Associate Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon Business School
Irina Zhecheva 2008 UC San Diego (Economics) Economist at Amazon
Dan Zhao 2014 Yale (Economics) Currently Working Towards Ph.D.; NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Feng Zhu 2002 Harvard (Science, Technology and Management) Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School