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Placement of '08 & '09 IDE students

Note: The placements are listed as name of institution with number of placements in parentheses if it is greater than one.

 ¹Students from Singapore are funded by their governments for IDE and are therefore committed to working for the government in various sectors on completion of the program.

News from several IDE alumni

Linette Lecussan 2008 is employed by the Hunt Oil Company of Peru LLC Sucursal del Peru in Lima.

James Walker 2007 is Finance Challenger, BP Trinidad and Tobago.

Evelyn Tan 2006 is an Associate at the Boston Consulting Group in Singapore.

Hui Ting Chan 2006 is an MBA student at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.  Prior to Wharton, she was an Assistant Director at the Monetary Authority of Singapore where she oversaw the development of the hedge fund and private equity industry in Singapore.. 

Lin Gao 2004 is President and Founder of Xinjiang Clean-Seed New Energy Company, Ltd in China.

Edward Gondwe 2004 is a Young Professional at the African Development Bank, in Tunis, Tunisia.  He writes: "I have adjusted well here at the ADB in Tunis working as a Young Professional in the private sector department.  It's been very rewarding and I have learned a lot and experienced a lot.  I am really putting my IDE education to good use."

Soo-Hyun Kim 2004 is a Ph.D. student at ISYE, Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. He writes, "I am currently a research associate in the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center. The focus of my research is on the economics of crime and on evaluating publicly-funded criminal justice interventions."

Pang-Yen Bryan Lou 2004 is an Associate Brand Manager, Avon Management, Asia Pacific Brand Marketing Center in Shanghai.

Juliana Wang 2004 is currently a second-year doctoral student at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Her specialization is energy economics, and she is interested at looking at energy policy in the context of climate change from a real option perspective.

Aaron Chalfin 2004 is a Research Associate at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C.

Sorasit Vanaprasert 2003 is working for Thailand's Government Pension Fund (GPF).

Jun Liu 2003 is currently working at the World Bank in Washington DC as a junior professional associate providing internal support for budget and strategic staffing needs. In addition, he is completing a second master’s degree in finance at Johns Hopkins University. He writes, “I feel really thankful for my Yale education. Because of my preparation in economics and finance at Yale, it is not difficult for me to digest more advanced and specific knowledge in finance fields like modeling and testing.”

Chian Choo 2003 is currently part of the fixed income investment management team at the asset management arm of DBS Bank, one of the largest banking groups in the Asia-Pacific region. Last year he wrote a paper entitled “How Can Singapore Remain Competitive in a Globalizing World Economy?” and won the first prize in the 2003-04 MAS-ESS Essay Competition, jointly held by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Economic Society of Singapore. He presented this paper at the Singapore Economic Review Conference in summer 2005.

Gioconda Naranjo Landerer 2002 has left the Inter-American Development Bank Project at the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism of Peru and now is working as an advisor at the National Council of Competitiveness at the Prime Minister Bureau. She writes, “My current job is very exciting and I can tell that to be in a competitive country means a big effort. In this process every single institution of the country is involved. I feel a great sense of satisfaction working improving the living conditions of Peruvians.'

Tavneet Suri 2001 enrolled in the PhD program in economics at Yale after completing the IDE program.  She is now Assistant Professor of Applied Economics, Economics, Finance & Accounting (EFA) at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Dwi Sabardiana 2001 is Deputy Director at BPK-RI in Jakarta, Indonesia.  He writes: "I still recall when I took four classes from the Forestry and Environmental Studies for my last semester in IDE.  It was a significant decision advised by Professor Evenson. After leaving Yale, I worked to evaluate the Indonesian government's programs related to sustainable development issues--social welfare and economic growth.  In 2007, I was in a team to design a strategic plan to develop environmental audit in my organization and was appointed to head the environmental audit unit.  Now my work is heavily to audit such environmental issues, especially in the mining and energy sector in Indonesia. Being able to evaluate the three basic postulates of sustainable development is what I've learned from the IDE Program."

Luisa F. Charry 2001 is Head of Equity Research at Valores Bancolombia in Bogota Columbia. 

Shweta Bagai 2001 writes, “After three years at the Development Research Group of the World Bank in Washington DC, I moved to Mozambique for a few months. In addition to working on a Trade Integration Study, I became a certified scuba diver. I am currently back in India, where I am working on trade/investment policy issues with the Confederation of Indian Industry, an industrial lobby group. In particular, I have done substantial work on trade facilitation, including some World Bank publications.”

Leonie Lee Siok Yoong 2000 is the Deputy Director of Industry at the Ministry of Trade and Industry in Singapore.

Dendy Kurniawan 2000 is the Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director of PT Geo Dipa Energi, an Indonesian Sate Owned Company focusing in Geothermal Businesses.

Ryan Washburn 1999 is an Economist at the US Agency for International Development in Kigali, Rwanda.

John Mirikitani 1998 is Assistant Professor, International Trade and Business Department, Hallym University, South Korea.   He writes: "Hallym University is in the top 10% of universities in South Korea, and has achieved that status in only about 25 years: it is a small, ambitious private university of 10,000 located in Chuncheon, Northeast of Seoul, in a beautiful ski-resort area.  Under the leadership of President Lee YongSun, Ph.D. International Economics, the College of International Studies was recently founded and has became a special priority of Hallym University."

Pedro Trujillo 1998 writes, “After my graduation from the IDE program I did an MBA at UNC, graduating in 2000. Since then, I have been working for Becton Dickinson in New Jersey in positions of increased responsibility. Most recently I was promoted to Controller for the Business Process Organization.

Francisco Monaldi 1996 is the Director, International Center on Energy and the Environment, IESA,

Kotaro Tamura 1996 was reelected to the Japanese Senate last year. He was appointed a member of the Finance Committee and the Budget Committee.

Kemal Ciliz 1994 is currently a full professor in the electrical engineering department at Bogazici University in Istanbul. He is also the managing partner for Infonet Information Technologies Ltd., which specializes in information security services, and he is on the board of three different IT companies in Istanbul and various civil service organizations.

Jesus Alfredo Vaca 1992 is the Regional Representative, Andean Region, at Dresdner Bank AG in Bogota, Colombia.

Satoshi Ohuchi 1992 is currently serving as Personal Secretary to Japan’s Senior Vice Minister of Finance.

Sonia Plaza 1990 is a Senior Economist at the World Bank.  She writes: I am very proud of  the newly published book Africa's Silk Road China and India's New Economic Frontier, released during the Singapore Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF.  I was the author of Chapter 5, focusing on between-the-borders factors in African-Asian Trade and Investment.  All the things that I learned from several professors from the International and Development Economics Program is what I constantly apply in my work."

Theophilus T. Bettie 1989 is an advisor in the Research, Policy & Planning Department of the Central Bank of Liberia.

George Apostolopoulos 1985 is the General Director of Michaniki Russia in Moscow leading a 500,000,000 USD investment in real estate. 

Rene Benitez 1985 has moved from Manila to Sydney to start up a financial advisory company and a property trust.

Tarnthong Thongswasdi 1979 is a parliamentary secretary for the Thailand Ministry of University Affairs and advisor to the deputy minister of Labor and Social Welfare.  She has previously held appointments as parliamentary secretary for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as dean of the School of Political Science at Sukhothai Thammathirat University, and as deputy director of the European Studies Program at Chulalongkorn University where she was editor of the university's Journal of European Studies.  She is the author of over 50 publications in the fields of political science and international relations.

Anthony Patrick 1977 is a consulting economics editor in the Asia-Pacific region, based in Sydney and doing editing and training work for organizations including the Asian Development Bank in Manila the Dow Jones Newswires in Singapore and Hong Kong.

Juan Luis Larrabure 1974 has retired from the United Nations and is living in Lima Peru.  Over the years he was UN Resident Representative in Comoros, Guyana and Haiti, Director of the Environment Division of UNOPS, Director of the International Trade Center in Geneva and elected as Inspector and Vice-Chairman of the Joint Inspection Unit of the United Nations System.  He was also runner-up to become Secretary General of the International Red Cross Federation in 1999.

Raul A. Lacayo 1971, as president of the Nicaraguan Securities Exchange, is leading an effort in Nicaragua to expand that country’s capital markets legal framework. It is expected that by the end of September, the National Assembly will approve a law that will enable the development of mutual funds, asset securitization, and other institutional and supervisory changes. The new legal framework will promote greater insertion of the Exchange in regional and global financial markets, providing new sources of funds for the country’s economic activity.

Sidney Weintraub 1958 holds the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC. Until about a year ago, he also directed CSIS’s Americas Program, which includes Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada. He has been with CSIS for about 10 years, after retiring from the University of Texas in Austin, where he held the Dean Rusk Chair for International Affairs in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.

Roy Wehrle 1956 is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Springfield. He writes, “I am teaching and writing on globalization from the point of view that increasingly the world is dealing with problems related to global commons or public goods. Internationally we are neither mentally nor organizationally prepared to deal with these transnational problems."

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