ARE Doctoral Job Placements 2003-2023
Fields listed in abbreviations below are ARP= Agricultural Resource Policy, DEV=Development, BEC= Behavioral Economics, DEM= Demography, ECMT=Econometrics, ERE= Environmental and Resource Economics, EEE= Environment and Energy Economics, FIN= Financial Economics, HE= Health Economics, IO=Industrial Organization, HIS= Economic History, LAB= Labor, POL= Political Economy, PUB= Public Economics, PUF=Public Finance, URB= Urban Economics, TR= Trade.
2023
| Livia Alfonsi (DEV, LAB) | Assistant Professor | Harvard Business School, NOM | Harvard University |
| Wei Guo (ERE, URB) | Post-Doctoral scholar (2023-2025) | RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment | |
| Junior Scientist (starting in 2025) | RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment | ||
| Qingyang Huang (DEV, POL) | Assistant Professor | Institute of South-south Cooperation and Development | Peking University |
| Jenya Kahn-Lang (EEE, IO) | Post-Doctoral Scholar (2023-24) | Stanford Environmental and Energy Policy Analysis Center | Stanford University |
| Fellow (starting in 2024) | Resources for the Future | ||
| James E. Sayre (TR, ARP) | Assistant Professor of CE/Specialist in Food Supply Chains | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics | University of California, Davis |
| Eleanor Wiseman (DEV, ECMT, POL, TR) | Post-Doctoral Scholar (2023-2025) | King Center and Center for Food Security and the Environment | Stanford University |
| Assistant Professor (starting in 2025) | Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics | University of Wisconsin Madison | |
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| Bobby Harris (ERE,IO,PUB) | Assistant Professor | Economics Department | Georgia Institute of Technology |
2022
| Jesse Buchsbaum (ERE) | Post Doctoral Scholar | UChicago's E&E Lab | The University of Chicago |
| Yulei Shelley He (ERE,FIN) | Economist | Amazon | |
| Andrew Hultgren (IO, ERE) | Assistant Professor | Agricultural and Consumer Economics | University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign |
| Wei Lin (DEV) | Assistant Professor | Economics | The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen |
| Wenfeng Qiu ( ERE) | Senior Economist | SiriusXM/Pandora | |
| James Sears (ERE) | Assistant Professor | Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics | Michigan State University |
| Molly Van Dop Sears (ARP, ERE) | Assistant Professor | Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics | Michigan State University |
| Matthew Suandi (HIST, DEV) | Economist | Division of Research and Statistics | Federal Housing Finance Agency |
| Matthew Tarduno (ERE,PUB) | Post Doctoral Scholar (2022-2023 ) | Harvard University Center for the Environment | Harvard University |
| Assistant Professor (starting 2023) | Economics | University of Illinois, Chicago | |
| Carly Trachtman (DEV,ARP, BEC) | Associate Research Fellow | Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division (MTID). | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) |
ARE Class of 2022 at the Greek Theater, May 15, 2022
2021
| Sébastien Annan-Phan (ERE) | Research Scientist | JD.com Silicon Valley Lab | |
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Karl Dunkle Werner (ERE, EEE, PUB) |
Economist | Microeconomic Analysis | U.S. Department of the Treasury |
| Hannah Druckenmiller (ERE, DEV) | Fellow | Resources for the Future | |
| Gabriel Englander (ERE, DEV) | Post Doctoral Scholar (2021-2022) | University California, Santa Barbara | |
| Economist (starting 2022) | Development Research Group | World Bank | |
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Luna Yue Huang (DEV) |
Data Scientist | Waymo (Google) | |
| Scott Kaplan (ARP, IO, ERE) | Assistant Professor | Economics | U. S. Naval Academy |
| Benjamin Krause (DEV, POL) | Director | Development Innovation Lab | University of Chicago |
| Megan Lang (DEV,BEC, ERE) | Post Doctoral Scholar (2021-2022) | King Climate Action Initiative | JPAL |
| Economist (starting 2022) | Development Research Group | World Bank | |
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Peiley Lau (ERE, ARP, PUF) |
Environmental Economist |
National Center for Environmental Economics |
Environmental Protection Agency |
| Ryan Olver (ARP,ERE) | Research Agricultural Economist | Structure, Technology, and Productivity Branch, Economic Research Service, USDA | |
| Kate Pennington (ERE, POL) | Economist | Demographic Research Area | U. S. Census |
| Vaishnavi Surendra (DEV) | Post Doctoral Researcher | Precision Agriculture for Development | |
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Catherine Wright (ERE, HE) |
Senior Data Scientist |
Aetna, a CVS Health Company |
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| Ariel Zucker | Assistant Professor | Economics | University of California, Santa Cruz |
2020
| Susanna Berkouwer (DEV, EEE) | Assistant Professor | Business Economics and Public Policy | The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania |
| Léopold Biardeau (EEE,DEM) | Attaché Temporaire d'Enseignement et de Recherche, | Law, Economics and Management | Université de la Polynésie Française, Tahiti |
| Claire Duquennois (DEV,LAB) | Assistant Professor | Economics | University of Pittsburgh |
| Kwabena Donkor (BEC,IO,LAB) | Assistant Professor | Marketing (starting 2021) | Stanford GSB, Stanford University |
| SIEPR Postdoctoral Fellow (2020 – 2021) | Stanford University | ||
| Andy Hultgren (ERE) | Post Doctoral Scholar | Economics | University of Chicago |
| Reid Johnsen (ARP, ERE) | Research Data Specialist | California Department of Tax and Fee Administration | |
| Elisa Duran Micco(IO,BEC,EEE) | Post Doctoral Scholar | Industrial Emgineering | University of Chile |
| David McLaughlin(ERE, PUB) | Economist | Environmental Defense Fund | |
| Matthew Pecenco (DEV, LAB) | Assistant Professor | Economics | Brown University |
| Deepak Premkumar (DEV,PUB) | Research Fellow | Public Policy Institute of California | |
| Manaswini Rao (DEV,POL) | Post Doctoral Scholar | Economics | University of California, San Diego |
| Assistant Professor (starting in 2023) | Economics | University of Delaware | |
| Vaishnavi Surendra (DEV) | Post Doctoral Scholar | University of California, Berkeley | |
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| Aluma Dembo | Lecturer (Assistant Professor) | IDC, Herzliya | |
| Nick Hagerty | Assistant Professor | Agricultural Economics and Economics | Montana State University |
2019
| Dina Gorenshteyn (ERE) | Economist Intern | Amazon | |
| Stephen Harrell (DEV, LAB) | Quantitative Researcher | ||
| Jonathan Kadish | Visiting Profgessor of Statistics | Statistics | Reed College |
| Data Scientist | as of 2019, Trinet, as of 2021 Instagram | ||
| Erin Kelley (DEV) | Economist |
Development Impact Evaluation Unit |
World Bank |
| Gregory Lane (DEV) | Asst. Professor | Department of Economics | American University |
| Ellen Lin (ERE, URB) | Economist | Amazon | |
| John Loeser (DEV) | Economist |
Development Impact Evaluation Unit |
World Bank |
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Jonathan Proctor (ERE) |
Data Science Post Doctoral Fellow | Harvard Data Science Initiative and Harvard University Center for the Environment (joint appointment) | Harvard University |
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Allyson Barnett Root (DEV, PUB) |
Economist II | Amazon | |
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Deirdre Sutula (ERE, DEV) |
Economist |
United States Government Accountability Office |
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Daniel Tregeagle (ERE, ARP) |
Asst. Professor |
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics |
North Carolina State University |
| Itai Trilnick (ERE, ARP) | Data Scientist | ||
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Shaoda Wang (DEV, ERE) |
Post Doctoral Scholar |
Department of Economics and EPIC (2019-2021) |
The University of Chicago |
| Asst. Professor |
Harris School of Public Policy (starting 2021) |
The University of Chicago | |
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Matt Woerman (ERE, IO) |
Asst. Professor | Department of Resource Economics | U Mass, Amherst |
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Adrien Bouguen (DEV) |
Asst. Professor |
Department of Economics | Santa Clara University |
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| Danamona Andrianarimanana | Research Specialist | Economic Research Unit | California Dept. of Finance |
| Ceren Baysan | Post Doctoral Scholar | Weatherhead Center for International Affairs | Harvard University |
| Asst. Professor | Department of Economics (2019) | University of Essex | |
| Narayan Das | Sr. Research Fellow | Research & Evaluation Division (RED) | BRAC Bangladesh |
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Tamma Carleton |
Post Doctoral Scholar |
Department of Economics |
Univeristy of Chicago |
| Asst. Professor |
Bren School of Environmental Science & Management (2019) |
University of California, Santa Barbara | |
| James Gillan | Economist | Amazon | |
| Dan Hammer | Fellow | National Geographic Society | |
| Zhimin Li | Asst. Professor | HSBC Business School | Peking University |
| Louis Preonas | Post Doctoral Scholar | Economics & Energy Policy Institute | University of Chicago |
| Asst. Professor | Agricultural & Resource Economics (2019) | Univeristy of Maryland | |
| Elizabeth Ramirez-Ritchie | Data Scientist | AIRBNB | |
| Ed Rubin | Asst. Professor | Department of Economics | University of Oregon |
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2018 Greek Theater Commencement.
2017 |
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| Kendon Bell | Economist | Landcare Research/Manaaki Whenua | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Joshua Blonz |
Post Doctoral Scholar |
Resources for the Future | |
| Fiona Burlig | Post Doctoral Scholar | Economics & Energy Institute | University of Chicago |
| Assistant Professor | Harris School of Public Policy (2018) | University of Chicago | |
| Elliott Collins | Economist | Kiva Labs Initiative | Kiva Microfunds |
| Aluma Dembo | Nuffield Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Department of Economics | University of Oxford |
| Xiaoxue Du | Assistant Professor | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology | University of Idaho |
| Seth Garz | Post-Doctoral Fellowship | CEGA | UC Berkeley |
| Sylvan Herskowitz | Associate Research Fellow | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) | |
| Liang Lu | Assistant Professor |
Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology |
University of Idaho |
| Xi Lu | Assistant Professor | Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy | National University of Singapore |
| Subrata Kumar Ritadhi | Research Economist | Strategic Research Unit | Reserve Bank of India |
| Andrew Stevens | Assistant Professor | Agricultural Economics | Mississippi State University |
| Rebecca Taylor | Assistant Professor | School of Economics | University of Sydney |
2017 Greek Theater Commencement.
2016
| Lydia Ashton | Assistant Professor | Consumer Science Department, School of Human Ecology | University of Wisconsin- Madison |
| Patrick Baylis | Post Doctoral Scholar | Center on Food Security & the Environment | Stanford University |
| Assistant Professor |
Vancouver School of Economics |
University of British Columbia (2017) | |
| Lei Cheng | Assistant Professor | Economics and Management School | Wuhan University |
| Walter Graf | Associate | The Brattle Group | |
| Angeli Kirk | Staff Economist | Premise Data Corporation | |
| Daley Kutzman | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | Northwestern University |
| Gavin McCormick | Executive Director | WattTime | |
| Eduardo Montoya | Associate | Cornerstone Research | |
| Moon Parks | Senior Economist | Center for Economics | United States Government Accountability Office |
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Obie Porteous |
Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | Middlebury College |
| Zhen Sun | Assistant Professor | Institute of Economics, School of Social Sciences | Tsinghua University |
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Dilek Uz |
Assistant Professor | Department of Economics |
University of Nevada, Reno |
| Yang Xie | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | University of California, Riverside |
2015
| Geoffrey Barrows |
Post Doctoral Scholar ( 1 year) |
Grantham Institute | London School of Economics |
| CNRS Researcher | Département d'Economie | Ecole Polytechnique- Paris, France | |
| Judson Boomhower | Post Doctoral Scholar (2 years) | Institute for Economic Policy Research | Stanford University |
| Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | University of California, San Diego (2017) | |
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Siwei Cao |
Assistant Professor | School of Economics & Business Administration | Beijing Normal University |
| Steven Buck | Assistant Professor | Agricultural Economics | University of Kentucky |
| Lilia Chaidez | Senior Economist | U.S. Government Accountability Office | |
| Sikandra Christian | Post Doctoral Scholar | Paris School of Economics | |
| Rachel Gardner Clark | Senior Utilities Economist |
Tacoma Power |
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| Glynis Gawn | Adjunct Professor | Department of Economics | UC Merced |
| Sam Heft-Neal | Post Doctoral Scholar | Dept. of Earth System Science | Stanford University |
| Marieke Kleemans | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign |
| Yongdong Liu | Assistant Professor | School of Management | University College London |
| Stanislao Maldonado | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | Universidad del Rosario, Colombia |
| Reid Stevens | Assistant Professor | Department of Agricultural Economics | Texas A&M |
| Megan Stevenson | Post Doctoral Scholar | University of Pennsylvania | |
| Qu Tang | Researcher | Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences | |
| Gina Waterfield | Economist | Brattle Group | |
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| Rapahel Calel | Assistant Professor | McCourt School of Public Policy | Georgetown University |
2014
| Manuel Barron | Visiting Researcher | CEGA | U.C. Berkeley |
| Marshall Burke | Assistant Professor | Environmental Earth Systems Science | Stanford University |
| Andrew Dustan | Assistant Professor | Economics | Vanderbilt University |
| Guojun He | Assistant Professor | Division of Social Science and Division of Environment | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) |
| Kyle Emerick | Assistant Professor | Departmentof Economics | Tufts University |
| Diana Lee | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | Occidental College |
| Ayako Matsuda | Post doctoral Fellow | Department of Economics | University of Tokyo |
| Erica Myers | Assistant Professor | Agricultural and Consumer Economics | University of Illinois |
| Renato Seixas | Research Fellow | Department of Economics | University of Sao Paulo in Ribeirao Preto |
| Tiffani Shih | Associate Research Economist | Precision Health Economics | |
| Matthew Zaragoza-Watkins | E2e Postdoctoral Fellow/High-Meadows Postdoctoral Fellow | Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Environmental Defense Fund | |
| Di Zeng | Postdoctoral Scholar | LBNL | University of California, Berkeley |
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| Svenn Jensen | Assistant Professor | School of Economics & Business | Norwegian University of Life Sciences |
2013
| Maria Bowman | Sustainable Livestock Economics Fellow | Natural Resources Defense Council | |
| Kate Foreman | Consultant | NERA | |
| Catie Hausman | Assistant Professor | Ford School of Public Policy | University of Michigan |
| Phu Viet (Frankie) Lee | Post Doctoral Fellow in Environment | Fullbright Economics Teaching Program, Vietnam | Senior Researcher, Lower Mekong Public Policy Initiative (USAID) |
| Maya Papineau | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | Carleton University |
| Jessica Rider | Economist | Education, Workforce, and Income Security | Government Accountability Office |
| Anna Spurlock | Senior Scientific Engineering Associate | Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Department | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Chantal Toledo | Postdoctoral Fellow | EBI | UC Berkeley |
| Lunyu Xie | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | Renmin University, China |
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| Neil Thompson | Assistant Professor | Sloan School | MIT |
2012
| Jing Cai | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | University of Michigan |
| Sarah Dobson | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | University of Alberta |
| Luosha Du | Consultant | The World Bank | |
| Fei Han | Economist | Economist Program | International Monetary Fund |
| Gianmarco Leon | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | University of Pompeu Fabra |
| Leslie Martin | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | University of Melbourne |
| Charles Seguin | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | L'Université du Québec à Montréal |
| Steven Sexton | Assistant Professor | Department of Agricultural Economics | NC State |
| Alex Solis | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | Uppsala University |
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| David Anthoff | Assistant Professor | School of Natural Resources and Environment | University of Michigan |
| Anthony Millner | Research Fellow | Grantham Research Institute | London School of Economics |
| Katrina Mullan | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | University of Montana |
| Helene Ollivier | Research Fellow | Department of Economics | University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and CNRS |
2011
| Rosangela Bando | Economist | Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) | |
| Damian Bickett | Assistant Professor | Williamette University | |
| Howard Chong | Assistant Professor | School of Hotel Admininistration | Cornell University |
| Ben Crost | Assistant Professor | University of Colorado | |
| Kyriakos Drivas | Postdoctoral Researcher | Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics | University of California, Berkeley |
| Alan Fuchs | Research Economist | Human Development Report Office | UNDP |
| Erick Gong | Assistant Professor | International Politics and Economics | Middlebury College |
| Brian Gross | Assistant Professor | Humboldt State University | |
| Santiago Guerrero | Researcher | Central Bank of Mexico | |
| Melissa Hidrobo | Postdoctoral Fellow | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) | |
| Jenny Ifft | Research Economist | ERS Resource & Rural Economics Division | USDA |
| Koichiro Ito | Assistant Professor | School of Business | Boston University |
| Kelly Jones | Postdoctoral Fellow | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) | |
| Peter Kelly | Assistant Professor | School of Economics | Renmin University of China |
| Joanne Lee | Economist | Mathematica | |
| Fangwen Lu | Assistant Professor | Renmin University of China | |
| Elizaveta Perova | Economist | World Bank | |
| Biswo Poudel | Visiting Scholar | Agriculture and Resource Economics | UC Berkeley |
| Lourdes Rodriguez-Chamussy | Lecturer | Economics Department | George Washington University |
| Tom Sproul | Assistant Professor | Environmental & Natural Resource Economics | University of Rhode Island |
| Abdoulaye Sy | Young Professionals Program | World Bank | |
| Quoc Viet | Founder and President | Golden Bridge, Inc. |
2010
| Shanthi Nataraj | Associate Economist | RAND | |
| Jill Luoto | Associate Economist | RAND | |
| Jenny Liu | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | Portland State University |
2009
| Maoyong Fan | Assistant Professor | Miller College of Business | Ball State University |
| Kristen Kiesel | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | California State University, Sacramento |
| Zhen Lei | Assistant Professor | Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering | Pennsylvania State University |
| Clair Null | Assistant Professor | Rollins School of Public Health | Emory University |
| Robert Santillano | Researcher | Human Services | Mathematica |
| Jesse Tack | Assistant Professor | Department of Agricultural Economics | Mississippi State University |
| Rocio Titiunik | Assistant Professor | Department of Political Science | University of Michigan |
2008
| Jenny Aker | Assistant Professor | Fletcher School | Tufts University |
| Jennifer Brown | Assistant Professor | Kellogg School of Business | Northwestern University |
| Ricardo Cavazos | Chief Economist | COFEPRIS | |
| Céline Ferré | Economist (Young Professional) | Human Development in South Asia | The World Bank |
| Rui Huang | Assistant Professor | Agricultural & Resource Economics | University of Connecticut |
| Ryan Kellogg | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | University of Michigan |
| James Manley | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | Towson University |
| Lyngun Nie | Economist | Washington Mutual Bank | |
| Hugo Salgado | Assistant Professor | Economics Department | Universidad de Concepcion, Chile |
| Susan Stratton | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | Smith College |
| Felipe Vasquez | Professor | Universidad del Desarrollo in Concepcion, Chile | |
| Muzhe Yang | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | Lehigh University |
2007
| Emma Aisbett | Assistant Professor | Crawford School of Economics & Government/Economics Program | Australian National University |
| Sarah Baird | Postdoctoral Scholar | Center on Pacific Economies | University of California, San Diego |
| Xiangyi (Daniel) Meng | Assistant Professor | School of Public Finance and Public Policy | Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China |
| Ralf Steinhauser | Research Fellow | Economics Program | Australian National University |
| Hendrik Wolff | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | University of Washington |
2006
| Christopher Busch | Climate Economist | The Union of Concerned Scientists | |
| Claudio Ferraz | Research Economist | Instituto de Pesquisa Economica Aplicada (IPEA), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil | |
| Frederico Finan | Assistant Professor | Department of Economics | UCLA |
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Meredith Fowlie |
Assistant Professor | Ford School of Public Policy/Economics | University of Michigan |
| James Hilger | Economist | Bureau of Economics/Consumer Protection Division | Federal Trade Commission |
| Bo MacInnis | Research Fellow | Institute for Social Research/Population Studies Center | University of Michigan |
| Manisha Shah | Assistant Professor | Economics | University of Melbourne |
| Jaya Sil | Risk Modeling Officer | JP Morgan | Chase & Co |
| Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere | Assistant Professor | Economics | Georgia Institute of Technology, GATECH |
2005
| Jennifer Alix | Assistant Professor | Departmentof Economics | University of Montana, Missoula |
| Tania Barham | Assistant Professor | Institute of Behavioral Science/Department of Economics | University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Tomoki Fujii | Assistant Professor | Economics and Social Sciences | Singapore Management University |
| Fang Lai | Assistant Professor | Education | New York University |
| Andrew McKim | Program Economist | Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade Division | United States Agency for International Development |
| Laura Schechter | Assistant Professor | Agricultural & Applied Economics | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Karina Schoengold | Assistant Professor | School of Natural Resources/Agricultural Economics | University of Nebraska, Lincoln |
| Jason Scorse | Assistant Professor | International Policy Studies | Monterey Institute of International Studies |
| Guanming Shi | Assistant Professor | Agricultural & Applied Economics | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Aaron Swoboda | Assistant Professor | School of Public & International Affairs | University of Pittsburgh |
2004
| Yanhong Jin | Assistant Professor | Agricultural Economics | Texas A&M University |
| Stephen Stohs | Researcher/Lecturer | Southwest Fisheries Science Center/Economics | University of California, San Diego |
2003
| Caridad Araujo | Visiting Assistant Professor/Consultant | Public Policy Institute/Development Economics Research Group | Georgetown University/World Bank |
| Kathy Baylis | Assistant Professor | Food & Resource Economics Group | University of British Columbia, Vancouver |
| Nick Brozovic | Assistant Professor | Agricultural & Consumer Economics | University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign |
| Sean Cash | Assistant Professor | Dept. of Rural Economy | University of Alberta, Edmonton |
| Greg Graff | Director of Research | Research | Bio-Economic Research Associates, Cambridge, MA |
| Karen Macours | Assistant Professor | Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies | Johns Hopkins University |
| Craig McIntosh | Assistant Professor | International Relations & Pacific Studies | University of California, San Diego |
| Wolfram Schlenker | Assistant Professor | School of International & Public Affairs | Columbia University |
| Ximing Wu | Assistant Professor | Department of Agricultural Economics | Texas A&M University |