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Our graduates are well trained in data analysis, micro- and macroeconomic theory, econometrics (both theoretical and applied) as well as fields of specialization of their choice.

Our graduates are highly competent users of Economics and have been successful in a variety of fields from completing a PhD to applied policy work at international organizations to working in an investment bank.

If you are interested in one of our current students please do not hesitate to contact them. You may also contact us to set up a recruitment event.

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	Soha Ahmed	Interests: Development, Trade, Monetary Policy, Labor Migration, Gender & Economics, Experience: RA for Kimberly Clausing; Research intern at Mercy Corps, RA for Todd Pugatch, Tutor for intro economics + econometrics at Reed College Skills: Beginner Stata, R, Proficient Spanish, Conversational Urdu
	Svankita Arora	Interests: Development, gender, political economy Experience: Training consultant at SEWA Bharat, New Delhi Skills: BA Economics, STATA, SurveyCTO
	Manvi Beniwal	Interests: Financial Economics, Development Economics Experience: Internship at WTO Skills: B.A. Economics & Statistics
	Nicole Cao	Interests: Development, International Labor Economics, Environment, Gender, Race, and Inequality
	Aditi Chaudhary
	Ruoyu Chen
	Xi Chen	Education: M.A. IDE - Yale University B.S. (Highest Honors) Managerial Economics - University of California, Davis Professional Experience: Intern at Nio Capital Intern at Sailing Capital Summer Analyst at Gobi Partners Research Analyst at The Forever Nature Capital Foundation Skills: Python, C/C++, MATLAB, R, Stata, LaTeX
	Annie Chen	Education: M.A. IDE Yale University (2020-2021) B.A. (Hons) Economics - University of California, Berkeley (2016=2020) Professional Experience Research Intern - Berkeley Economic Advising and Research (2018-2020) Consulting Intern - McKinsey & Co. (2018 Summer) Undergraduate Student Instructor - UC Berkeley Econ 2 with David and Christina Romer (2020 Spring) Interests Inequality and education attainment, development economics, impact investing Technical Skills: Stata, R, Python, SQL
	Shang Rong Chia
	Pushyami Chilakapati
	Chloe Chong
	Nusrat Chowdhury
	Valerie Chuang
	Harriet Cross
	Karan Daryanani Daryanani
	Nadeem Demian	Education: Yale University M.A. IDE (2020-2022), Yale School of the Environment M.S. Environmental Management (2020-2022), Princeton Unviersity B.A. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (2015-2019) Professional Experience: Studying the ecology of agricultural systems in rural Kenya (Mpala Research Centre), working on local conservation projects in New Jersey (D&R Greenway Land Trust), and facilitating a number of environmental justice initiatives (D&R Greenway Land Trust, Heartwood Podcast) Interests: Climate finance, sustainable development, agricultural development, and mitigation banking. Skills: R, ArcGIS, Microsoft Office
	Erdem Dorjkhand	Education: M.A. IDE - Yale University (2020 - 2021) B.A. (Hons) Economics - University of Cambridge (2017 - 2020) Professional Experience Research Assistant - Economic Growth Center Research Intern - Institute of Economic Affairs (2019) Part-time Consultant - Blue Tap (2019) Spring Intern - Jefferies Group (2019) Technical Skills: C, Python, SQL, Stata, Eviews, Latex
	Rachel Dweikat
	Beatriz Garcia Nunes	Education: M.A. IDE Yale University (2020 - 2021) B.Sc. Economics - University of São Paulo (2015 - 2019) Professional Experience Research Assistant for Prof. Tony Smith (current) Economic research intership at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (2018 - 2019) Corporate Internship in the credit pricing area at Itaú Unibanco (2017) Personal Skills: Languages: Portuguese (native); English (fluent); Spanish (fluent); French (intermediate) Technical: Stata, R, Python, SAS, E-views, Microsoft Office
	Shubhangi Gokhroo	Interests: Development economics (poverty and gender) Experience: Research Intern at J-PAL, Centre for Policy Research, Social and Political Research Foundation and IIM - Ahmedabad Skills: Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi (IN)
	Elle Hughes
	Darshna Jadhav	Interests: Public Policy and Development, Economics & Labor Economics Experience: Co-authored a research paper on, ‘Projection of Sea Level Rise by the year 2100 at the Indian Coastline and its implication’ under the guidance of Ms. Anupriya Aggarwal. Skills: B.A. in Economics
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	Shruti Jha	Interests: Development, gender, environmental and climate change economics Experience: Office of Ms. Mitali Nikore, Economist (Feb ‘21 to Aug ‘21) - Research Advisor (Jul - Aug ‘21); Senior Research Assistant (Jun - Jul ‘21), Research Assistant (Feb - Jun ‘21); KPMG Global Services (Jun ‘17 - Apr ’ 20) - Business Associate (Oct ‘19 - Apr ‘20), Analyst (Jun ‘17 - Oct ‘19) Skills: B.A. (Honours) in Business Economics, Gargi College, University of Delhi (2017), SPSS Statistics, SAS software, Advanced Excel
	Lu Jin
	Manushi Kumar
	Aishwarya Kuruttukulam	Interests: Development Finance, Impact Investing, Development Consulting, Policy, Data, Climate Change, Gender Experience: Development, Public Sector Consulting, Venture Capital-Impact Responsible Investing Skills: Data Analysis for Social Scientists (R), designing and running randomized control trials
	Manasi Kutwal	Interests: Policy Analysis, South Asian Development, Rural Development
	Manojna Lanka
	Sanjana Muthukrishnan
	Anjana Nair	Interests: International Trade, Political Economy Experience: Research Assistant at LSU Economics and Policy Research Group
	Meng Qiao	Interests: Labor Economics, Cultural Economics, Interdisciplinary Studies of Economics, Psychology & Sociology Experience: China Life Company Credit Appraisal Internship, Head of Dance Troupe in LHR, RUC Skills: Research, Photography, Dancing
	Aishwarya Rai
	Manasi Rao	Interests: Political Economy of Development Experience: two years of research assistantships: one year of fieldwork, one year of datawork Skills: Stata, R, ArcGIS, QGIS, Research
	Shereein Saraf	Interests: Development Economics, Labor, Gender, Social Norms Experience: Jr. Research Consultant at U.N. Capital Development Fund, Advocacy Intern at Price Waterhouse Coopers Skills: BA (Hons.) Economics, Shri Ram College of Commerce
	Vaishnavi Sinha
	Vanessa Siy Van	Interests: Health policy, Development economics, and Multidisciplinary-multisectoral policy reserach, Systems research particularly in low-and-middle-income countries Experience: Research specialist and consultant for the Philippine Institute for Development Studies, the Philippine government’s primary socioeconomic policy thinktank. Part of the team that conducted the first comprehensive rreview of the Philippines’ national reproductive health law and a review of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hispital services utilization in the Philippines. Research specialist for the Ateneo de Manila University conducting health policy and economic research on childhood nutrition, school feeding programs, and multisectoral policies in decentralized government settings wtih a multidisciplinary lab. Lecturer for the university’s Health Sciences Program. Skills: I graduated Class Valedictorian from the Ateneo de Manila University with two degrees (BS Health Sciencesand AB Economics) in 2018. or the last 4 years, I have immersed myself in public policy research using skills from both public health and economics. I have experience in academic as well as government research, with a focus on policy in low-and-middle-income countries like the Philippines. As my professional work includes communiccating policy reserach to non-specialists, I have also developed skills in public speaking to an array of audiences, ranging from elected officials, career bureaucrats, community stakeholders, researchers, to students. While employing a variety of policy analysis methods for my work, I write and prepare manuscripts for publication.
	Lakshimi Swaminathan	Interests: Political Economy, Development in Africa & Asia, Labour Economics, International Affairs, Geopolitics, Policymaking, Econometrics Experience: Interned at the Center for African Studies at University of Mumbai (June - August 2021) - Researched change in the perspective of Indian soft-power in Africa after the advent of Narendra Modi; Interned at Nation for NAMO (May - June 2020) - Co-contributed to a comprehensive framework of ranking Indian states on the indicators “Inclusive Development” & “Employment & Skill Development” Skills: B.A (Hons) Economics, Working knowledge of R, DELF A2 in French, Completed the Data & Policy Summer Scholars Program at University of Chicago
	Tsutomu Tatsuno	Education Yale University M.A. IDE, University of Tokyo B.A. Economics Professional Experience Monitoring international capital flows, assessing financial stability, making macroeconomic projections Skill Modern swordsmanship
	Andre Tng	Interests: Urban development, housing and city infrastructure planning, global affairs, tech Experience: COVID-19 emergency infrastructure and quarantine housing policy Skills: BSc Economics, London School of Economics
	Tam Trinh	US-UK Fulbright Lloyd scholar with extensive experience in the UK Civil Service and Big-4 Consulting. I am skilled in Economics and Policy and I’m currently working on advancing my economics and analytical skills through my IDE Master at Yale. Education: Yale University M.A. IDE, LSE B.Sc. Economics Professional Experience: Research Assistant for Prof. Chris Urdy, Ghana Panel Survey (current) Senior Policy & Economics Advisor, HM Treasury’s Strategic Projects Economist & Fiscal Policy Consultant, PwC Project manager, secondment to Ministry of Labor, Saudi Arabia Management Consultant, PwC People & Organisation Interests: Labor market economics, impact of technology / trade shocks, development Skills: Excel, Stata, policy drafting, stakeholder management, project management https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamtrinh2/
	Simeng Wang	Interests: Economic consulting, non-profit, NGO, International Development, think-tanks, and financial services Experience: International Political Economy & Asian Investment Spring Intern at American Enterprise Institute; PTA at McKinsey & Co.; Industry Research Intern at G20 Young Entrepreneurs Alliance; Research Intern at Public Democracy; Summer Intern at Eleison Group Skills: R, Excel, Tableau, Python (Pandas), Stata, Word, PowerPoint, Squarespace, HubSpot, Canva, CFA Level (May 2021), Chinese, English
	Aijing Wu	Interests: Development economics, sustainable development, inequality Experience: B.A. in Economics and B.A. in Sociology (minor) from Renmin University of China. Internship at M&E Team of UNDP China, International Economics and Finance Institute, Chief Economist Team of KPMG China. RA at National Academy of Development and Strategy of RUC, Institute on Poverty Research of PKU, Institute of New Structural Economics of PKU Skills: STATA, R
	Jiewen Xiao
	Kevin Yin
	Tianyi Zhou	Interests: Development economics, public economics, early childhood development Experience: Junior Associate - New York Center for Foreign Policy Affairs; Strategy Consulting INtern - Bain & Company Skills: R, Stata, Java, Python, SPSS