Macalester Economics graduates, as in previous years, have chosen to pursue a broad range of post graduate study and career paths. Here are just a few recent examples:

2010

• Martin Stenman Andersson (Uppsala, Sweden) works for Shorewater Advisors in Minneapolis, MN.
• Alice Anigacz (Brooklyn, NY) works for Mathematica in policy research in New Jersey.
• Saad Anjum (Karachi, Pakistan) works for Deloitte in Minneapolis.
• Aleksander Azarnov (Johvi, Estonia) works for Bank of America/Merrill Lynch in London as a capital markets analyst.
• Soham Banerji (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) works for Optimal Solutions in Washington, DC as a consultant.
• Ji Chio (Seoul, Korea) works at Analysis Group in Denver, CO.
• Atang Gilika (Gaborone, Botswana) works at Analysis Group in Boston.
• Erica Graboyes (Thiensville, WI) works at Piper Jaffray in Minneapolis, MN, as an investment banking analyst.
• Stamo Hadjiyski (Sofia, Bulgaria) works at Robert W. Baird & Co in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as an equity capital markets analyst.
• Horatiu Kraus (Tirgu Jiu, Romania) is attending the London School of Economics.
• Besjona Kreka (Elbasan, Albania) works at Cornerstone in Washington, DC as a consultant.
• David Lopez (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) works at the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis.
• Adam Muro (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) works at Goldman Sachs in New York as an analyst in institutional sales.
• Chelsea Soo Hyun Park (Seoul, Korea) works as an associate at Samsung Electronics in Korea.
• Mark Smedley (Vancouver, Washington) works at Boeing in Seattle, WA, as an international accounts manager.
• Stephen Snider (Mandeville, Jamaica) works for Ameriprise Financial in Minneapolis, MN.
• Krasimir Tomov (Sofia, Bulgaria) works for 3M in St. Paul, MN.
• Manoj Vemula (Bangalore, India) works at J.P. Morgan in New York as an investment banking analyst.
• Tao Wen (Shanghai, China) works at Ecolab in St. Paul as an associate financial analyst.
• Hao Zou (Suzhou, China) works at the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago.

2009

• Phillippa Anastos (Deerfield, MA) works at Ameriprise in Minneapolis.
• Aparna Bhasin (Mumbai, India) is pursuing a master’s degree of social work at Columbia University.
• Todd Copenhaver (Wellesley, MA) works for Wells Fargo in Minneapolis as a financial analyst.
• Jayant Gokhale (Pune, India) works at Analysis Group in San Francisco.
• Adam Golder (Cincinnati, OH) is teaching English in Japan.
• Tara Hottman (Arden Hills, MN) received a highly competitive study scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
• Colin Hottman (Arden Hills, MN) is pursuing a PhD in economics at Columbia University.
• Alex James (Brooklyn, NY) works at US Bank in Minneapolis as a trust securities operations specialist.
• Andrew Johnson (St. Louis Park, MN) is pursuing a master’s in statistics at the University of Minnesota
• Xiaobo Ke (Fujian, China) is pursuing a PhD in biology at Princeton University.
• David Lewin (Wayland, MA) is working for the Cleveland Caviliers as a basketball operations assistant.
• Xi Luo (Wuhan,China) works at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
• Hiroyuki Miyake (Tokyo, Japan) works at McKinsey in Tokyo, Japan.
• Ephraim Musokiva (Zambie, Tanzania) works for UBS in New York City as a financial analyst.
• Meredeth Pearcy (Plymouth, MN) is working at Beckman Couter in California as a senior specialist in strategic marketing.
• Conrad Lichty (Mount Vernon, Iowa) works at CarVal Investors in Minneapolis.
• Sebastian Wellsjo (Stockholm, Sweden) works at the Analysis Group in Menlo Park, CA.
• Keaton White (Denver, CO) received a Fulbright Scholarship to Japan to study consumer preferences and country-of-origin bias (an extension of his honors thesis).
• Luisa Jou Zhang (Maple Grove, MN) works for the United States Department of Agriculture in St. Paul as a financial analyst.

2008

• Aaron A. Block (Seattle, Washington) accepted a position at GridPoint in Washington D.C. as a utility analyst
• Alissa Buckingham (Salt Lake City, Utah) works at Goldman Sachs in Salt Lake City.
• Varun Dutt (Bombay, India) accepted a position at  Citigroup in Singapore.
• Thomas Fillebeen (Placerville, Colorado) attended Vanderbilt University for a master’s in financial engineering and now is a trader at Gelber Group in Chicago.
• Melissa French (Cambridge, MN) accepted a position at Piper Jaffray in Minneapolis, MN.
• Jonas Hiltrop (Doetlingen, Germany) accepted a position at Cornerstone Research in Boston.
• Benjamin Gan (San Francisco, California) accepted a position at Franklin Templeton Investments in San Francisco.
• Viet Hoang (Hanoi, Viet Nam) attended New York University for a master’s of mathematical finance and currently works at Goldman Sachs in New York City.
• Murat Ilgen (Istanbul, Turkey) accepted a position at Analysis Group in Menlo Park, CA.
• Bunsake Itamara (Tokyo, Japan) accepted a position at Secured Capital in Japan.
• Katherine Lim (Shoreview, MN) accepted a position at the Urban Institute, Tax Policy Center in Washington D.C.
• Daniel Liu (Singapore) accepted a position at Wells Fargo in San Francisco.
• Andrew Mykletun (Oslo, Norway) works at Analysis Group in Boston.
• Kaitlyn Orr (Shawnee Mission, Kansas) accepted a position at Deloitte Consulting in Minneapolis, MN.
• Batnairamdal Otgonshar (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) works at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Mongolia.
• Joe Parilla (St. Paul, MN) accepted a job at Optimal Solution Group in Washington, DC.
• Auyon Rahman (Bangladesh) works at International Finance Corporation in Bangladesh.
• Andrey Russinov (Almaty, Kazakhstan) accepted a position at Merrill Lynch in London.
• Jun Sasaki (Kyoto, Japan) accepted a position at Merrill Lynch in Tokyo.
• Disa Sheqem (Amman, Jordan) accepted a position at 3M in St. Paul, MN.
• Subechya Shrestha (Kathmandu, Nepal) has accepted a position at Analysis Group in San Francisco.
• Aminata G. Sougou (Dhaka, Senegal) accepted a position at Thomson Reuters Financial in Eagan, MN.
• Venelin Tsonev (Rousse, Bulgaria) accepted a position at Citigroup in London.