Economics

If you are an alumnus of UF Economics’ doctoral program , please keep us updated on your current employment. Contact Valeria Zoilo at 352.392.0151 or via email.

Ph.D. Alumni

2025

• Angel Gonzalez
  Central Bank of Paraguay
• Ilia Kapelevich

2024

• Don Tawanpitak
• Xi Zhang
  Kennesaw State University

2023

• Berkay Akyapi
  University of Florida
• Dilan Alpergin
  Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield
• Cui Shana
  Oberlin College
• Emanuel Garcia Munoz
  Palm Beach Atlantic University
• Sankalp Mathur
  Center for Advanced Financial Research and Learning (CAFRAL), Reserve Bank of India
• Douglas Turner 
  University of Florida

2022

• Shubhi Agarwal
  University of Florida
• Armand Kapllani
  T Mobile
• Jeongwoo Lee
  Korean Insurance Research Institute (KIRI)
• Urbashi Mookerjee
  Charles Rivers
• Jeehoon Paik
  Ernst & Young (EY)
• Alan Secor
  Illinois Institute of Technology
• Jieon Shim
  Texas State University
• Daniel Wagner
  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
• Anita Walsh
  The Brattle Group

2021

• Zachary Jones
  Hewlett-Packard

2017

• Alberto Ortega 
  Indiana University – Bloomington
• Zachary Cohle  
  Saginaw Valley State University

2016

• Kritee Gujral
  U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
• Richard Boampong
  University of Alberta
• Jevay Grooms
  Howard University
• Wenche Wang 
  University of Michigan
• Ying Tang 

2015

• Adam Narkiewicz 
  Texas A&M

2014

• Achala Acharya 
  Deluxe
• David Brown 
  University of Alberta
• Thomas Knight 
  University of Florida, Department of Economics
• Fan Li
  Shenzhen University
• Bryan Lynch 
  Ally Bank
• Lindsey Woodworth
  University of South Carolina

2013

• Derek Drayer
  Ernst and Young
• Theodore Kury 
  University of Florida, Public Utilities Research Center
• Jessica Merkle 
  Auburn University
• Amanda Phalin 
  University of Florida, Department of Management

2012

• Shourjo Chakravorty 
  Istanbul Technical University
• Michelle Phillips 
  University of Florida, Department of Economics
• Edward See 
  InfoTech Consulting

2010

• Ting Levy
  Florida Atlantic University
• Kristian Estevez
  University of Florida, Department of Economics
• Mujde Erten
  University of Vermont
• Marcela Giraldo 
  Southern Methodist University
• Colin Knapp
  Pennsylvania State University
• Michelle Lin
  Northwestern University
• Natalia Pakhotina
  Texas A&M

2009

• Celeste Carruthers 
  University of Tennessee
• Liangliang Jiang 
  Lingnan University
• Umut Ozek 
  CALDER
• Katie Sherron
  Florida State University
• Daniel Weinberg
  Impaq International LLC
• Qiong Zhou 
  Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

2008

• Mircea Marcu 
  U.S. Office of Personnel Management
• Maria Corton 
• University of South Florida – St. Petersburg
• Joshua Kneifel 
  National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Pipawin Leesamphanth Thai Government

2007

• Christine Piette Durrance
  University of Wisconsin
• Ali Gungoraydinoglu
  Florida International University
• Guillermo Sabbioni
  Brattle Group
• Hamilton Silva
  Brazilian Government
• Burcin Unel
  Institute for Policy Integrity – NYU School of Law

2006

• Leonard Cabrera
  US Air Force
• Kevin Christiansen
  Altria Client Services Inc.
• Scott Hankins
  University of Kentucky
• Mark Hoekstra
  Texas A&M
• Jin Jeon
  Samsung Economic Research Institute
• Chen Lin
  City University of Hong Kong
• Troy Quast
  University of South Florida

2005

• Jeremy Luallen
  Tufts University
• Kornvica Pimukmanaskit
  Fiscal Policy Research Institute – Ministry of Finance (Thailand)
• Mark Scanlan
  Stephen F. Austin (Texas)

2004

• Bonghoon Kim
  POSCO Research Institute (Korea)
• Wei Li
  Corner Stone Research
• Salvador Martinez
  South Texas College

2003

• Scott Carrell
  UC Davis
• Sourav Chatterjee
  National Economic Research Associates Inc.
• Chifeng Dai
  Southern Illinois University
• Mary Davis
  Tufts University
• Deborah Fletcher
  Miami University (Ohio)
• Caprice Knapp
  Penn State University

2002

• Raymonda Burgman
  Higher Education Resource Services (HERS)
• Eric Chiang
  Florida Atlantic University
• Jacqueline Horrall 
  Pittsburgh-Greensburg
• Iordanis Petsas
  University of Scranton
• Samia Tavares
  University of St. Gallen

2001

• Janice Hauge
  University of North Texas
• Mark Jamison
  UF PURC
• Hsiu-Chuan Yeh
  Ching-Yun Institute of Technology (Taiwan)

2000

• Luis Gutierrez
  Universidad del Rosario (Columbia)
• Huseyin Yildirim
  Duke University

1999

• Sang Hyup Lee
  Southeastern Louisiana University
• Mehmet Sener
  Union College

1998

• Michael Blake
  Putnam, Hayes & Barlett – Asia Pacific Ltd.
• Jim Dewey
  Florida Polytechnic University
• Kayoto Ishikawa
• Rajiv Sharma
  Portland State University

1997

• Christopher Garmon
  University of Missouri – Kansas City
• Makoto Okamura
  Hiroshima U (Japan)
• Jianmao Wang
  Jiatong University (China)
• Shinji Yane
  St. Andrews Univ. (Japan)

1996

• Margaret Byrne
  University of Miami – Medical School
• Jennifer Cobb
  Disney
• Thomas Fullerton
  Texas – El Paso
• Min Zhu
  JP Morgan Chase

1995

• William Encinosa
  Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
• Dean Foreman
  ExxonMobil
• Richard Hoffman
  Kentucky Public Defender’s Office
• Cindy Houser
  Asian Development Bank
• YiKang Li
  AT&T
• Li Zhu
  American Century Investment

1994

• Srabana Gupta
  Penn State-Erie
• Jill Herndon
  UF Medical School
• Jongmin Lee
  Kangweon National Univ.

1993

• Gulnaz Abdukadir
  Edward Jones
• Jinyong Chen
  W.F. Corroon (actuarial consulting)
• Scott Makar
  Judge, Florida First District Court of Appeals
• Dennis Weisman
  Kansas State University
• Laixun Zhao
  Kobe U

1992

• Hamid-Reza Baradaran-Shoraka
  Univ. of Allameh Tabatabaei (Iran)
• Benjamin Blair
  Columbus State University
• Carol Dole
  Jacksonville University
• Young Hoon Koo
  Hanwha Economic Research Inst.
• Marcelle Kinney
  Economic Consulting Services
• Dong-Soo Koh
  Kores Inst. for Industrial Economics & Trade
• Daniel R. LeClair
  AACSB
• Suryamani Mantrala
  Mantrala Associates
• Cynthia Stephens
  Deiter, Stephens & Durham (consulting)