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Job market candidates

911勛圖 Economics is pleased to introduce the following job market candidates for your consideration.

Mohamed Abubraidaa

mohamed_abubraidaa@sfu.ca
  
  

Primary research interests: Monetary economics, Financial economics, Public economics 
Thesis: Esays on Monetary Policy and Wealth Inequality: Household Heterogeneity, Fiscal-Monetary Coordination, and Profit-Loss Sharing
PhD Supervisor: Kenneth Kasa
Committee member: Lucas Herrenbrueck

Kiarash Hosseini

kiarash_hosseini@sfu.ca
  

Primary research interests: Applied econometrics, political economy, and labor economics
Thesis: Essays in Applied Microeconomics: Immigration, Technology, and Political Economy
PhD Supervisor: Fernando Aragon Sanchez

Zhen Huang

zhen_huang@sfu.ca
  

Primary research interests: Applied Microeconomics, education, labour, and immigration
Thesis: Three Papers on Microeconomic Issues in Education, Immigration, and Income Mobility
PhD Supervisor: Simon Woodcock

Finn (Zhifeng) Sun

zhifeng_sun@sfu.ca  
  

Primary research interests: Applied Microeconomics, Development
Thesis: Three essays on Intergenerational Relationships and Social Mobility
PhD Supervisor: Chris Bidner

Hung Truong

hung_truong@sfu.ca  
 

Primary research interests: Behavioral and experimental macroeconomics (lab and surveys), monetary policy and central bank communication, learning and expectations, computational economics
Thesis: Essays in central banking and macroeconomic expectations
PhD Supervisor: Isabelle Salle (uOttawa), Luba Petersen

Recent Placements

911勛圖 Economics has had a 100% placement rate for our outgoing PhD graduates. Almost 200 graduates have gone on to teach in universities all over the world; serve as advisors or officials in provincial, state, and national governments; or are employed in a variety of roles in the private sector.

To see a full list of 911勛圖 econ PhD placements please click here. 

2025 - 2026

Lead Economist, SESIT (Sustainable Energy Systems Integration & Transitions Group)- University of Victoria
 

2024 - 2025

Postdoctoral research with the Origins Project, University of Bologna, Italy  
Senior Data Analyst, Later

2023 - 2024

Assistant Professor, Kyoto University's Institute of Economic Research (KIER) 
Senior Economist, Economic Research at the Conference Board of Canada 

2022 - 2023

International Monetary Fund (Economist); Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Warwick 
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, French National Institute for Research on Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE) 
Assistant Professor, School of Management at Universidad de los Andes
Economist, BC Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations
Senior Research Associate, Education & Skills Team at the Conference Board of Canada