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, 2010-2023
The Department of Economics reviewed data from the 2010-2023 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 268 out of 399 alumni who obtained a graduate degree (Graduate Diploma, MA, or PhD) from our department between 2010 and 2023.
- The private sector is the most represented amongst our alumni group, with 63.43% reporting working in a privately owned company: banking, higher education, and IT services/online solutions are the most frequent.
- Analytics represents 39.71% 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).
- 47% of the graduate alumni group still report living in the Greater Montreal area. In total, 72.28% live in Canada.
- 46.67% of our PhD alumni report being employed or active in higher education: 12 have a teaching role, one identifies as a researcher, and one as a student.
- 17 of the 29 graduate alumni working in government are employed by the Government of Canada.
| Thesis Title | Supervisor | Graduation | 1st Placement | Current Placement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rouzbeh Ghouchani |
Studies in Mechanism Design |
Dipjyoti Majumdar and Szilvia Pápai | 2022 | Sessional Faculty, University Canada West |
Faculty, University of British Columbia |
| Asefeh Salarinezhad |
Static and Dynamic Theoretical Studies on Improving Matching Design | Szilvia Pápai | 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 Pápai | 2020 | Senior Economic Policy Fellow, British Columbia Ministry of Health |
Senior Economic Policy Fellow, British Columbia Ministry of Health |
| Pooya Ghasvareh | Fairness Comparisons of Matching Rules | Szilvia Pápai | 2019 | Lecturer, Matrix College |
Biostatistician / Researcher, Health Canada |
| 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 Pápai |
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 |
n=268
n=209
n=146
n=267
Sources: LinkedIn data and Concordia Advancement