HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL JOB PLACEMENT | PHD IN PUBLIC POLICY
2018–2019
Abraham Holland
Research Sta Member, Institute for Defense Analyses
Ariella Kahn-Lang
Researcher, Human Services, Mathematica
Jennifer Kao
Assistant Professor, Strategy Unit, UCLA Anderson
School of Management
Stephanie Majerowicz
Assistant Professor of Government, Universidad
de los Andes, Colombia; Post-Doctoral Research
Fellow, briq Institute on Behavior & Inequality
Gabriel Tourek
Post-Doctoral Associate, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty
Action Lab (J-PAL)
Bradley DeWees
Assistant Director of Operations, United States
Air Force
Emily Mower
Senior Data Scientist, edX
Daniel Velez-Lopez
Lead Analyst, Venture Fellowship Program,
National Grid Partners
2017–2018
Juan Pablo Chauvin
Research Economist, Inter-American
Development Bank
Cuicui Chen
Assistant Professor, SUNY Albany, Department
of Economics
Stephen Coussens
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management,
Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
Raissa Fabregas
Assistant Professor, University of Texas Austin,
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Aairs
Todd Gerarden
Assistant Professor, Cornell University, Dyson School
Sarika Gupta
World Bank, YPP
Alicia Harley
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy
School, Sustainability Science Program
Janhavi Nilekani
Founder of Aastar
Lisa Xu
Harvard Graduate Students Union—
United Auto Workers
2016–2017
Martin Abel
Assistant Professor, Middlebury College,
Department of Economics
Jonathan Baker
Economist, Analysis Group
Tomoko Harigaya
Research Associate, Precision Agriculture
for Development
Laura Quinby
Research Economist, Center for Retirement Research,
Boston College
Yeling Tan
Assistant Professor, University of Oregon,
Department of Political Science
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HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL JOB PLACEMENT | PHD IN PUBLIC POLICY
2015–2016
Samura Atallah
Associate, McKinsey & Company
Tara Grillos
Assistant Professor, Purdue University,
Department of Political Science
Nils Hagerdal
Junior Research Fellow, Brandeis University
Elizabeth Linos
Assistant Professor, University of California
Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy
Sara Nadel
Founder/CEO, StellarEmploy
Yusuf Neggers
Watson Post-doctoral Fellow, Brown University
Oyebola Okunogbe
Economist, World Bank Development Research Group
Trisha Shrum
Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Colorado Earth Lab
Samuel Stolper
Fall : Assistant Professor, University of Michigan,
School of Natural Resources and Environment
Fall : Post-doctoral Fellow, MIT, MIT Energy
Initiative and the Center for Energy and Environmental
Policy Research and the Department of Economics
2014–2015
Maria Cecilia Acevedo
Consultant, World Bank, Poverty Global
Practice Division
Natalie Bau
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto,
Department of Economics
Syon Bhanot
Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College,
Economics Department
Gabriel Chan
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota,
School of Public Aairs, Department of Science,
Technology and Policy
Sarah Cohodes
Assistant Professor, Columbia University Teachers
College, Education Policy Department
A. Nilesh Fernando
Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame,
Economics Department (Post-doc at Harvard
University)
Dan Honig
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins SAIS
Mahnaz Islam
Economist, Amazon
Richard Sweeney
Assistant Professor, Boston College, Economics
Department
Elizabeth Walker
Consultant, NERA, Energy, Environment, and Network
Industries Practice
2013–2014
Dany Bahar
Senior Associate Economist,
Inter-American Development Bank
Ariel Dora Stern
Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School,
Technology and Operations Management Unit
Alexandra van Geen
Assistant Professor, Erasmus School of Economics,
Department of Finance
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HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL JOB PLACEMENT | PHD IN PUBLIC POLICY
2012–2013
Will Dobbie
Assistant Professor of Economics, Assistant Professor
of Economics and Public Aairs, Princeton University,
Economics Department and Woodrow Wilson School
Jeffrey Friedman
Postdoctoral Fellow in International Security and
US Foreign Policy, John Sloan Dickey Center for
International Understanding, Dartmouth College
Marie Newhouse
Residential Lab Fellow, Edmon J. Safra Center
for Ethics, Harvard Law School
Olga Rostapshova
Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Science Genetics
Association Consortium/NBER and Senior Evaluations
Specialist, Social Impact
Laurence Tai
Residential Lab Fellow, Edmon J. Safra Center
for Ethics, Harvard Law School
2011–2012
Christopher Carrigan
Assistant Professor, George Washington Trachtenberg
School of Public Policy
Souman Hong
Assistant Professor, Yonsei University
Avinash Kishore
Post Doctoral Fellow, IFPRI, New Delhi
Robyn Meeks
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Philip Osafo-Kwaako
Post doctoral Fellow, Harvard’s Institute for
Quantitative Social Sciences
Matthew Ranson
Abt Associates
Christopher Robert
President & CEO of Dobility
Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School
William Skimmyhorn
Assistant Professor, West Point
Maoliang Ye
Assistant Professor, Remin University
Tristan Zajonc
Visiting Fellow, Harvard’s Institutes for Quantitative
Social Science; Co-founder and CEO of Sense, Inc.
2010–2011
Ina Ganguli
– Post Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Business
School & Harvard Medical School; Assistant
Professor, Stockholm School of Economics
John Horton
Economist, Odesk
Victoria Levin
Economist, World Bank
Suerie Moon
Non-academic oers—undecided
Gary Reinbold
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Springeld,
Department of Public Administration
Abigail Fisher Williamson
Preceptor, Harvard College Writing Program
Andres Zahler
Assistant Professor, Diego Portales University,
Economics Department and Public Policy Institute
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HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL JOB PLACEMENT | PHD IN PUBLIC POLICY
2009–2010
Mohamad Al-Ississ
Assistant Professor, University of Cairo,
joint appointment with Business School and
School of Global Aairs
Sharon Barnhardt
Institute of Financial Management and Research,
Chennai, India
David Deming
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon Heinz
School of Public Health
Brooke Kelsey Jack
– Post Doctoral Fellow, Department
of Economics, MIT; Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics, Tus University
David J Lynch
RWS Advisory, Consultant
Santitarn Sathirathai
Credit Suisse based in Singapore
Thomas Wei
U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education
Sciences (National Center for Education Evaluation)
2008–2009
Hunt Allcott
– Post-doctoral Fellow, Department
of Economics, MIT; Assistant Professor
of Economics, NYU
Jeffrey Bielicki
Weinberg Fellow, Research Scientist, Oak Ridge
National Laboratory
Jonathan Borck
Economist, Analysis Group, Boston
Warigia Bowman
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy
Leadership, University of Mississippi
Jennifer Bulkeley
Special Assistant for Asian and Pacic Security Aairs,
Oce of the Secretary of Defense, Washington, DC
Oeindrila Dube
2009–10 Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for Global
Development; Assistant Professor of Political Science,
New York University
Allan Friedman
– Post-doctoral Fellowship, SEAS
(School of Engineering & Applied Sciences),
Center for Research on Computation and Society
(CRCS), Harvard University; Brookings Institute
Felipe Kast
JPAL, Universidad Catolica, Santiago
Carolyn Kousky
Researcher, Resources for the Future
Kira Matus
Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Green Chemistry
and Green Engineering, Yale University
Holly Ho Ming
Breakthrough, Ltd, Hong Kong, and Youth Foundation,
Beijing and Shanghai
Tatsuya Nishida
Post-doc at a Japanese University
Jason Richwine
Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Juan Saavedra
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Los Andes
University, School of Government
Judith Scott-Clayton
Assistant Professor of Economics of Education,
Teacher’s College, Columbia University
Sandra Sequeira
Post-doctoral Fellow, NY Law School;
Lecturer in Development Economics,
London School of Economics and Political Science
Yuhki Tajima
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
University of California, Riverside
Ngoc Anh Tran
Assistant Professor of Public Policy,
University of Indiana
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HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL JOB PLACEMENT | PHD IN PUBLIC POLICY
2007–2008
Fotini Christia
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science,
MIT
Kessely C. Hong
On family leave
Sebastian S. James
Senior Economist on Tax Policy, The World Bank
Bailey W. Klinger
Director, CID Research Lab, Harvard Kennedy School
Carolyn M. Kousky
Fellow, Resources for the Future
Elta C. Smith
Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Environment and
Political Economy, University of California, Berkeley
Nicole A. Szlezak
Consultant, McKinsey and Company
Adam T. Thomas
Research Director, Economic Studies,
The Brookings Institution
Rui Wang
Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Planning,
UCLA
Yu Fei
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics,
Mt. Holyoke College
2006–2007
Naomi Calvo
Principal Associate, Education Resource Strategies
Jing Cao
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, School
of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
Andrew Feldman
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Fiona Greig
Consultant, McKinsey and Company
Wei Ha
Policy Specialist, Human Development Report Oce,
UN Development Programme
Beau Kilmer
Associate Policy Researcher, RAND
Indhira Santos
Research Fellow, Bruegel
Blair S. Williams
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences,
United States Military Academy
Fan Zhang
Assistant Professor in Energy Economics and
Policy, Energy and Geo-environmental Engineering
Department, Penn State University
2005–2006
Pelin Berkmen
Research Economist, International Monetary Fund
Eduardo Cavallo
Research Economist, Inter-American
Development Bank
Darby Jack
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Earth Institute,
Columbia University
Zhou Liu
Private Sector Consultant
Jenny Schuetz
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Furman Center for Real Estate
and Urban Policy, New York University
Jong-Sung You
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of International
Relations & Pacic Studies, University of California,
San Diego
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HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL JOB PLACEMENT | PHD IN PUBLIC POLICY
2004–2005
Khuong Minh Vu
Visiting Professor, Sawyer School of Management,
Suolk University
2003–2004
Steven Anderson
Post-doctoral Fellow, Harvard Electricity Policy Group
(HEPG)
Wenhua Di
Visiting Professor, University of Texas-Dallas
Andrew Leigh
Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences,
Australia National University
Gavin Samms
Post-doctoral Fellow, Harvard Graduate
School of Education
Sheryl Winston Smith
Research Associate in Economics and Management,
Gustavus Adolphus College
Lori Snyder
Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics and
Policy, Nicholas School of Environmental and Earth
Sciences, Duke University
Chad Steinberg
Economist, International Monetary Fund
2002–2003
Carolyn Gideon
Assistant Professor of International Communications
and Communications Technology, Tus University
Gabriel Kaplan
Assistant Professor of Public Aairs,
University of Colorado, Denver
Tuan Minh Le
Public Finance Economist, The World Bank
Pierre LeBlanc
Economist, Department of Finance,
Government of Canada
2001–2002
Dorina Bekoe
Associate, International Peace Academy,
New York, NY
Sheila Cavanagh
Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Forestry
and Environmental Studies, Yale University
Ajay Chaudry
Faculty Member, The New School, New York, NY
Mark Kim
Public Finance Associate, UBS Paine Webber,
New York, NY
Karl Rethemeyer
Assistant Professor of Public Aairs and Policy, Nelson
Rockefeller College of Public Policy at SUNY, Albany
Lisa Sanbonmatsu
Post-doctoral Fellow, National Bureau
of Economic Research
Andres Vinelli
Special Assistant to the Chairman, National
Association of Securities Dealers, Washington, DC
Alix Peterson Zwane
Cooperative Extension Specialist,Department
of Agriculture and Resource Economics, Berkeley
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HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL JOB PLACEMENT | PHD IN PUBLIC POLICY
2000–2001
David Cash
Research Associate, Sustainability Systems Project,
Belfer Center for Science and International Aairs
Rick Doblin
President, Multi-Disciplinary Association for
Psychedelic Studies
Judith Kelley
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Duke University
Anthony Patt
Assistant Professor, Center for Energy and
Environmental Studies, Boston University
Sasha Pivovarsky
Economist, International Monetary Fund
David Skilling
Economist, New Zealand Treasury
Marcus Stanley
Assistant Professor of Economics, Case Western
Reserve University
Robert Taliercio
Fellow, Young Professionals Program, World Bank
1999–2000
Todd Olmstead
Consultant, McKinsey & Company
Gustavo Merino-Juarez
Assistant Professor of Economics, Instituto
Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
Carlos Rufin
Assistant Professor of Business Strategy,
Babson College
Howard Shatz
Research Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California
David Snelbecker
Manager, The Services Group
1998–1999
David Autor
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alison Earle
Research Scientist, Department of Health and Social
Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health
Karen Eggleston
Assistant Professor of Economics, Tus University
Karen Fisher-Vanden
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program,
Dartmouth College
Woo Chan Kim
Deputy Director, Ministry of Finance and Economy,
Republic of Korea
Chang-Yang Lee
Director, Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy,
Republic of Korea
Todd Schatzki
Senior Analyst, National Economic Research
Associates
Stuart Shapiro
Policy Analyst, Oce of Information and Regulatory
Aairs, Oce of Management and Budget
Tay Keong Tan
Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
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HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL JOB PLACEMENT | PHD IN PUBLIC POLICY
1997–1998
Kathryn Boudett
Research Fellow, Harvard Project on Schooling
and Children
Brian Hassel
Consultant, Private Company
Christopher Herbert
Senior Analyst, Abt Associates
Jason Snipes
Research Associate, Manpower Demonstration
Research Corporation
1996–1997
John Chapman
Vice President, Health Care Information Systems
Ingrid Ellen
Assistant Professor, The Wagner School,
New York University
Tae Yun Kim
Government Ocial, Republic of Korea
Dara Menashi
Consultant, Private Company
Vicki Norberg-Bohm
Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and
Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard Newell, Jr.
Fellow, Resources for the Future
Michael Santoro
Assistant Professor, Rutgers University Graduate
School of Management
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