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 |