Name Ph.D. Program Mentorship Role Initial Placement
Title Unit Institution
2024
Daniel Agness ARE Committee Chair Assistant Professor Economics University of Maryland
Jedediah Silver ARE Committee Member Assistant Professor Environmental Economics and Management Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2023
Livia Alfonsi ARE Committee Chair Assistant Professor NOM Harvard Business School
Qingyang Huang ARE Committee Chair Assistant Professor Inst. For South-South Coop. and Dev. Peking University
Eleanor A. Wiseman ARE Committee Chair Assistant Professor Dept of Agricultural and Applied Economics University of Wisconsin-Madison
2022
Matthew Suandi ARE Committee Chair Economist Division of Research and Statistics Federal Housing Finance Agency
Eric Hsu Econ Committee Member Post-Doctoral Associate Yale University 
Wei Lin ARE Committee Member Assistant Professor Economics Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Carly D. Trachtman ARE Committee Member Associate Research Fellow Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
2021
Benjamin E. Krause ARE Committee Chair Director Development Impact Lab University of Chicago
Megan E. Lang ARE Committee Chair Economist DECRG World Bank
Christina L. Brown Econ Committee Member Assistant Professor Economics University of Chicago
Luna Yue Huang ARE Committee Member Data Scientist Waymo
Kate M. Pennington ARE Committee Member Research Economist Demographic Research Area US Census
Vaishnavi Surendra ARE Committee Member Post-Doctoral Researcher Precision Agriculture for Development
2020
Claire E. Duquennois ARE Committee Chair Assistant Professor Economics University of Pittsburgh
Susanna B. Berkouwer ARE Committee Member Assistant Professor Business, Economics, and Public Policy Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
Deepak Premkumar ARE Committee Member Research Fellow Public Policy Institute of California
2019
Erin M. Kelley ARE Committee Chair Economist DIME World Bank
John A. Loeser ARE Committee Chair Economist DIME World Bank
Niall C. Keleher Info M&S Committee Member Post-Doctoral Scholar  Graduate School of Business Stanford University
Gregory V. Lane ARE Committee Member Assistant Professor Economics American University
Shaoda Wang ARE Committee Member Assistant Professor Harris School of Public Policy University of Chicago
2018
Ceren Baysan ARE Committee Member Assistant Professor Economics University of Essex
Tomas E. Monarrez Palma Econ Committee Member Research Associate Urban Institute
2017
Fiona E. Burlig ARE Committee Co-Chair Assistant Professor Harris School of Public Policy University of Chicago
Sylvan R. Herskowitz ARE Committee Chair Associate Research Fellow International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Lauran F. Bergquist Econ Committee Member Assistant Professor Economics University of Michigan
Elliott M. Collins ARE Committee Member Economist Kiva Labs Initiative Kiva Microfunds
Michael Walker Econ Committee Member Post-Doctoral Researcher CEGA UC-Berkeley
2016
Simon Galle Econ Committee Member Assistant Professor Economics BI Norwegian Business School
Angeli E. Kirk ARE Committee Member Staff Economics Premise Data Corporation
Daley C. Kutzman ARE Committee Member Assistant Prof. of Instruction Economics Northwestern University
Eduardo Montoya ARE Committee Member Associate Cornerstone Research
Carl M. Nadler Econ Committee Member Associate Cornerstone Research
2015
Lilia Chaidez ARE Committee Chair Senior Economist US Government Accountability Office
Rachel E. Gardner ARE Committee Co-Chair Senior Utilities Economist Tacoma Power
Marieke K. Kleemans ARE Committee Chair Assistant Professor Economics University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Megan Stevenson ARE Committee Chair Post-Doctoral Scholar University of Pennsylvania
Sikandra S. Christian ARE Committee Member Post-Doctoral Scholar Paris School of Economics
Stanislao Maldonado Zambrano ARE Committee Member Assistant Professor Economics University of Rosario
Jamie McCasland Econ Committee Member Assistant Professor Economics University of British Columbia
2014
Marshall B. Burke ARE Committee Member Assistant Professor Environmental Earth Systems Science Stanford
Kyle J. Emerick ARE Committee Member Assistant Professor Economics Tufts
Diana Kim Lee ARE Committee Member Assistant Professor Economics Occidental College
2012
Luosha Du ARE Committee Co-Chair Consultant World Bank
Gianmarco Leon ARE Committee Member Assistant Professor Economics University of Pompeu Fabra
2011
Benjamin Crost ARE Committee Member Assistant Professor Economics University of Colorado-Denver
Erick J. Gong ARE Committee Member Assistant Professor International Politics and Economics Middlebury College
Kelly M. Jones ARE Committee Member Associate Research Fellow International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Elizaveta A. Perova ARE Committee Member Economist World Bank
2010
Negar Ghobadi ARE Committee Chair Program Associate UN Office on Drugs and Crime
2009
John L. Bellows Econ Committee Member Special Asst. for Econ. Policy US Dept of the Treasury