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Graduate student alumni

Our MA alumni find positions at corporations, government organizations, in the private sector and in financial institutions as economic analysts, insurance advisors, financial managers, corporate economists and project managers, among others. Some find jobs in the education sector as cégep teachers. Our PhD students are placed in academic and research jobs at universities, corporations, and the financial sector, or work as senior analysts for a government agency.    

Alumni placement data, 2010-2021

The Department of Economics reviewed data from the 2010-2021 alumni, reaching out on LinkedIn to increase the number of connections to our Alumni group and to get a sense of the professional roles our alumni have attained so far. We managed to collect data on 210 out of 345 alumni who obtained a graduate degree (Graduate Diploma, MA, or PhD) from our department between 2010 and 2021.  

  • The private sector is the most represented amongst our group, with 62.86% reporting working in a privately owned company: banking, investment, and IT services/online solutions are the most frequent.
  • Analytics represents 42% of the occupation type for our graduate alumni. This grouping includes jobs such as data scientist/analyst and policy analyst in a variety of industry sectors (banking and finance being the most common).
  • More than half of the graduate alumni group still report living in the Greater Montreal area.
  • A majority (53.8%) of our PhD alumni report being employed or active in higher education: 11 have a teaching role, 2 identify as researchers, and 2 as students.
  • 17 of the 29 graduate alumni working in government are employed by the Government of Canada.

  Thesis Title Supervisor Graduation 1st Placement Current Placement
Asefeh Salarinezhad
Static and Dynamic Theoretical Studies on Improving Matching Design Szilvia Papai 2021 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ottawa
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ottawa
Dilek Sayedahmed
Refugee Settlement and Other Matching Problems with Priority Classes and Reserves: A Market Design Perspective Szilvia Papai 2020 Senior Economic Policy Fellow, British Columbia Ministry of Health
Senior Economic Policy Fellow, British Columbia Ministry of Health
Fatina Siblini Three Essays on the Labour Costs of Caring for Elderly Parents in Canada Tatyana Koreshkova 2019 Assistant Professor, Concordia University Assistant Professor, Concordia University
Biva Arani Mallik Revisiting the Environmental Kuznet's Curve in the Presence of Trade Effrosyni Diamantoudi 2018 Assistant Professor,
East West University, Dhaka
Assistant Professor,
East West University, Dhaka
Stefania Strantza International Environmental Agreements - Heterogeneity, Transfers and Issue Linkage Effrosyni Diamantoudi 2018 Assistant Professor, Concordia University Economics Professor, Vanier College
Uma Kaplan Three Essays on Collusion in English Auctions: Theory and Application Artyom Schneyerov and Szilvia Papai 2017 Assistant Professor, Concordia University Senior Data Scientist, National Bank of Canada
Iftekharul Huq Three Essays in Empirical Economics Damba Lkhagvasuren 2017 Assistant Professor,
East West University, Dhaka
Assistant Professor,
East West University, Dhaka
Gazi Mohammad Jamil Three Essays on Inter-Provincial Labour Mobility of Canada  Damba Lkhagvasuren 2017 Assistant Professor, University of Dhaka, Dhaka Assistant Professor, University of Dhaka, Dhaka
Feng Jiang

Government Policy, Trade under Oligopolistic Competition and Pollusion

Effrosyni Diamantoudi 2017 Assistant Professor,
Renmin University of China 
Assistant Professor,
Renmin University of China 
Amal Dabbous Three Essays in Commodity Price Dynamics Bryan Campbell 2015 Assistant Professor,
Beirut Arab University
Assistant Professor,
Saint Joseph University, Beirut 
Yu Liu Credit Migration of an Internal Rating System for a Canadian SME Loans Portfolio Bryan Campbell 2015 Quantitative analyst,
AVP, State Street
Quantatitive Analyst,
VP, State Street Bank
Hirbod Assa Hedging and Pricing in Incomplete Markets: Theory and Applications Nikolay Gospodinov 2014 Assistant Professor,
University of Liverpool
Assistant Professor,
University of Liverpool
Di Liu Essays in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics Prosper Dovonon,
Artem Prokhorov
2014 Senior Analyst, 
National Bank of Canada
Senior Econometrician,
Statacorp
Yves Tehou Fiscal Transparency, its Determinants and Consequences for Developing Countries Eckhard Siggel 2014 Assistant Professor,
Concordia University
Senior Research Analyst, Canada Revenue Agency
Jade Haddad Portfolio Credit Risk Modeling for a Canadian SME Loans Portfolio Bryan Campbell 2013 Senior Analyst, 
Portfolio Risk Management (BDC, Montreal)
Global Capital Allocation Leader (GE Capital, Greater NYC Area)
Xingfei Liu Three Essays on Educational Decisions and Labor Market Outcomes of Youths: An Empirical Analysis of Second Generation Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities Jorgen Hansen 2012 Assistant Professor,
Concordia University
Assistant Professor,
University of Alberta
Alumni employment, by sector n=210
Top 5 aggregated occupation types n=145
Top 5 occupation by industry n=124
Where are our graduates now? n=208

Sources: LinkedIn data and Concordia Advancement

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