Harvard Kennedy School Job Placement

PHD IN PUBLIC POLICY 1997–2019 HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL JOB PLACEMENT | PHD IN PUBLIC POLICY

2018–2019 Abraham Holland Gabriel Tourek Research Staff Member, Institute for Defense Analyses Post-Doctoral Associate, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Ariella Kahn-Lang Action Lab (J-PAL) Researcher, Human Services, Mathematica Bradley DeWees Jennifer Kao Assistant Director of Operations, United States Assistant Professor, Strategy Unit, UCLA Anderson Air Force School of Management Emily Mower Stephanie Majerowicz Senior Data Scientist, edX Assistant Professor of Government, Universidad Daniel Velez-Lopez de los Andes, Colombia; Post-Doctoral Research Lead Analyst, Venture Fellowship Program, Fellow, briq Institute on Behavior & Inequality National Grid Partners

2017–2018 Juan Pablo Chauvin Todd Gerarden Research Economist, Inter-American Assistant Professor, Cornell University, Dyson School Development Bank Sarika Gupta Cuicui Chen World Bank, YPP Assistant Professor, SUNY Albany, Department Alicia Harley of Economics Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy Stephen Coussens School, Sustainability Science Program Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Janhavi Nilekani Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health Founder of Aastar Raissa Fabregas Lisa Xu Assistant Professor, University of Texas Austin, Harvard Graduate Students Union— Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs United Auto Workers

2016–2017 Martin Abel Laura Quinby Assistant Professor, Middlebury College, Research Economist, Center for Retirement Research, Department of Economics Boston College Jonathan Baker Yeling Tan Economist, Analysis Group Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Tomoko Harigaya Department of Political Science Research Associate, Precision Agriculture for Development

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2015–2016 Samura Atallah Yusuf Neggers Associate, McKinsey & Company Watson Post-doctoral Fellow, Brown University Tara Grillos Oyebola Okunogbe Assistant Professor, Purdue University, Economist, World Bank Development Research Group Department of Political Science Trisha Shrum Nils Hagerdal Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Colorado Earth Lab Junior Research Fellow, Brandeis University Samuel Stolper Elizabeth Linos Fall 2017: Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Assistant Professor, University of California School of Natural Resources and Environment Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy Fall 2016: Post-doctoral Fellow, MIT, MIT Energy Sara Nadel Initiative and the Center for Energy and Environmental Founder/CEO, StellarEmploy Policy Research and the Department of Economics

2014–2015 Maria Cecilia Acevedo A. Nilesh Fernando Consultant, World Bank, Poverty Global Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame, Practice Division Economics Department (Post-doc at Harvard Natalie Bau University) Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Dan Honig Department of Economics Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins SAIS Syon Bhanot Mahnaz Islam Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College, Economist, Amazon Economics Department Richard Sweeney Gabriel Chan Assistant Professor, Boston College, Economics Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Department School of Public Affairs, Department of Science, Elizabeth Walker Technology and Policy Consultant, NERA, Energy, Environment, and Network Sarah Cohodes Industries Practice Assistant Professor, Columbia University Teachers College, Education Policy Department

2013–2014 Dany Bahar Alexandra van Geen Senior Associate Economist, Assistant Professor, Erasmus School of Economics, Inter-American Development Bank Department of Finance Ariel Dora Stern Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School, Technology and Operations Management Unit

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2012–2013 Will Dobbie Marie Newhouse Assistant Professor of Economics, Assistant Professor Residential Lab Fellow, Edmon J. Safra Center of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University, for Ethics, Harvard Law School Economics Department and Woodrow Wilson School Olga Rostapshova Jeffrey Friedman Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Science Genetics Postdoctoral Fellow in International Security and Association Consortium/NBER and Senior Evaluations US Foreign Policy, John Sloan Dickey Center for Specialist, Social Impact International Understanding, Dartmouth College Laurence Tai Residential Lab Fellow, Edmon J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard Law School

2011–2012 Christopher Carrigan Matthew Ranson Assistant Professor, George Washington Trachtenberg Abt Associates School of Public Policy Christopher Robert Souman Hong President & CEO of Dobility Assistant Professor, Yonsei University Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School Avinash Kishore William Skimmyhorn Post Doctoral Fellow, IFPRI, New Delhi Assistant Professor, West Point Robyn Meeks Maoliang Ye Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Assistant Professor, Remin University Philip Osafo-Kwaako Tristan Zajonc Post doctoral Fellow, Harvard’s Institute for Visiting Fellow, Harvard’s Institutes for Quantitative Quantitative Social Sciences Social Science; Co-founder and CEO of Sense, Inc.

2010–2011 Ina Ganguli Gary Reinbold 2011–2012 Post Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Business Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Springfield, School & Harvard Medical School; 2012 Assistant Department of Public Administration Professor, Stockholm School of Economics Abigail Fisher Williamson John Horton Preceptor, Harvard College Writing Program Economist, Odesk Andres Zahler Victoria Levin Assistant Professor, Diego Portales University, Economist, World Bank Economics Department and Public Policy Institute Suerie Moon Non-academic offers—undecided

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2009–2010 Mohamad Al-Ississ Brooke Kelsey Jack Assistant Professor, University of Cairo, 2010–2011 Post Doctoral Fellow, Department joint appointment with Business School and of Economics, MIT; 2011 Assistant Professor, School of Global Affairs Department of Economics, Tufts University Sharon Barnhardt David J Lynch Institute of Financial Management and Research, RWS Advisory, Consultant Chennai, India Santitarn Sathirathai David Deming Credit Suisse based in Singapore Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon Heinz Thomas Wei School of Public Health U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (National Center for Education Evaluation)

2008–2009 Hunt Allcott Kira Matus 2009–2011 Post-doctoral Fellow, Department Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Green Chemistry of Economics, MIT; 2011 Assistant Professor and Green Engineering, Yale University of Economics, NYU Holly Ho Ming Jeffrey Bielicki Breakthrough, Ltd, Hong Kong, and Youth Foundation, Weinberg Fellow, Research Scientist, Oak Ridge Beijing and Shanghai National Laboratory Tatsuya Nishida Jonathan Borck Post-doc at a Japanese University Economist, Analysis Group, Boston Jason Richwine Warigia Bowman Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy Juan Saavedra Leadership, University of Mississippi Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Los Andes Jennifer Bulkeley University, School of Government Special Assistant for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, Judith Scott-Clayton Office of the Secretary of Defense, Washington, DC Assistant Professor of Economics of Education, Oeindrila Dube Teacher’s College, Columbia University 2009–10 Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for Global Sandra Sequeira Development; Assistant Professor of Political Science, 2009 Post-doctoral Fellow, NY Law School; New York University 2010 Lecturer in Development Economics, Allan Friedman London School of Economics and Political Science 2009–2010 Post-doctoral Fellowship, SEAS Yuhki Tajima (School of Engineering & Applied Sciences), Assistant Professor of Political Science, Center for Research on Computation and Society University of California, Riverside (CRCS), Harvard University; 2010 Brookings Institute Ngoc Anh Tran Felipe Kast Assistant Professor of Public Policy, JPAL, Universidad Catolica, Santiago University of Indiana Carolyn Kousky Researcher, Resources for the Future

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2007–2008 Fotini Christia Elta C. Smith Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Environment and MIT Political Economy, University of California, Berkeley Kessely C. Hong Nicole A. Szlezak On family leave Consultant, McKinsey and Company Sebastian S. James Adam T. Thomas Senior Economist on Tax Policy, The World Bank Research Director, Economic Studies, Bailey W. Klinger The Brookings Institution Director, CID Research Lab, Harvard Kennedy School Rui Wang Carolyn M. Kousky Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Planning, Fellow, Resources for the Future UCLA Yu Fei Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Mt. Holyoke College

2006–2007 Naomi Calvo Beau Kilmer Principal Associate, Education Resource Strategies Associate Policy Researcher, RAND Jing Cao Indhira Santos Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, School Research Fellow, Bruegel of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University Blair S. Williams Andrew Feldman Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School United States Military Academy Fiona Greig Fan Zhang Consultant, McKinsey and Company Assistant Professor in Energy Economics and Wei Ha Policy, Energy and Geo-environmental Engineering Policy Specialist, Human Development Report Office, Department, Penn State University UN Development Programme

2005–2006 Pelin Berkmen Zhou Liu Research Economist, International Monetary Fund Private Sector Consultant Eduardo Cavallo Jenny Schuetz Research Economist, Inter-American Post-Doctoral Fellow, Furman Center for Real Estate Development Bank and Urban Policy, New York University Darby Jack Jong-Sung You Post-Doctoral Fellow, Earth Institute, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of International Columbia University Relations & Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego

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2004–2005 Khuong Minh Vu Visiting Professor, Sawyer School of Management, Suffolk University

2003–2004 Steven Anderson Sheryl Winston Smith Post-doctoral Fellow, Harvard Electricity Policy Group Research Associate in Economics and Management, (HEPG) Gustavus Adolphus College Wenhua Di Lori Snyder Visiting Professor, University of Texas-Dallas Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics and Andrew Leigh Policy, Nicholas School of Environmental and Earth Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Sciences, Duke University Australia National University Chad Steinberg Gavin Samms Economist, International Monetary Fund Post-doctoral Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Education

2002–2003 Carolyn Gideon Tuan Minh Le Assistant Professor of International Communications Public Finance Economist, The World Bank and Communications Technology, Tufts University Pierre LeBlanc Gabriel Kaplan Economist, Department of Finance, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, Government of Canada University of Colorado, Denver

2001–2002 Dorina Bekoe Karl Rethemeyer Associate, International Peace Academy, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Policy, Nelson New York, NY Rockefeller College of Public Policy at SUNY, Albany Sheila Cavanagh Lisa Sanbonmatsu Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Forestry Post-doctoral Fellow, National Bureau and Environmental Studies, Yale University of Economic Research Ajay Chaudry Andres Vinelli Faculty Member, The New School, New York, NY Special Assistant to the Chairman, National Mark Kim Association of Securities Dealers, Washington, DC Public Finance Associate, UBS Paine Webber, Alix Peterson Zwane New York, NY Cooperative Extension Specialist,Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, Berkeley

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2000–2001 David Cash Sasha Pivovarsky Research Associate, Sustainability Systems Project, Economist, International Monetary Fund Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs David Skilling Rick Doblin Economist, New Zealand Treasury President, Multi-Disciplinary Association for Marcus Stanley Psychedelic Studies Assistant Professor of Economics, Case Western Judith Kelley Reserve University Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Duke University Robert Taliercio Anthony Patt Fellow, Young Professionals Program, World Bank Assistant Professor, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Boston University

1999–2000 Todd Olmstead Carlos Rufin Consultant, McKinsey & Company Assistant Professor of Business Strategy, Gustavo Merino-Juarez Babson College Assistant Professor of Economics, Instituto Howard Shatz Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico Research Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California David Snelbecker Manager, The Services Group

1998–1999 David Autor Chang-Yang Lee Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Director, Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Republic of Korea Alison Earle Todd Schatzki Research Scientist, Department of Health and Social Senior Analyst, National Economic Research Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health Associates Karen Eggleston Stuart Shapiro Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University Policy Analyst, Office of Information and Regulatory Karen Fisher-Vanden Affairs, Office of Management and Budget Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program, Tay Keong Tan Dartmouth College Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore Woo Chan Kim Deputy Director, Ministry of Finance and Economy, Republic of Korea

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1997–1998 Kathryn Boudett Christopher Herbert Research Fellow, Harvard Project on Schooling Senior Analyst, Abt Associates and Children Jason Snipes Brian Hassel Research Associate, Manpower Demonstration Consultant, Private Company Research Corporation

1996–1997 John Chapman Vicki Norberg-Bohm Vice President, Health Care Information Systems Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Ingrid Ellen Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Assistant Professor, The Wagner School, Richard Newell, Jr. New York University Fellow, Resources for the Future Tae Yun Kim Michael Santoro Government Official, Republic of Korea Assistant Professor, Rutgers University Graduate Dara Menashi School of Management Consultant, Private Company

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Updated 10/2019