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Industry Connections for Economics


The Boston College Master of Science in Applied Economics was designed in close collaboration with industry economic leaders who represent a wide variety of organizations throughout a range of sectors such as finance, healthcare, insurance, and the public sector.  The involvement of these leading employers in data and economics has enabled Boston College to provide the next generation of online learning: employer-aligned education. Our advisory board members provided critical input into the design of the curriculum and they continue to be actively involved in many aspects of the applied economics program.

John Arabadjis, Ph.D.

BNY Mellon; Head of Macro Strategy Product & Analytics

Oana Diaconu, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Data Science, Consumer Experience and Call Svcing, CVS

Lisa Emsbo-Mattingly, M.A.

Fidelity; Portfolio Manager: Strategic Advisors

Can Erbil, Ph.D.

Boston College; Professor of Practice in Economics

Jose Fillat, Ph.D.

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Senior Economist and Policy Advisor

Mike Finegold, Ph.D.

Google; Data Science Lead, Google Travel

Larry Fulton, Ph.D.

Boston College; Visiting Professor

Paul Garvey, Ph.D.

MITRE; Chief Scientist, Center for Acquisition and Management Science

David Goodman

Dean, Woods College of Advancing Studies

John Griffin, Ph.D.

Charles River Associates; Vice President

Derya Isler, M.B.A.

VP of Search and Personalization, Sirius XM

Stephen Lawrence, Ph.D.

Vanguard; Head of Indexing Research

Fr. Richard McGowan, D.B.A.

Jesuit East Coast Province; Treasurer / Boston College, Faculty

Robert Murphy, Ph.D.

Boston College; Professor of Economics and Chair, Economics Department

Başak Özer

CEO, Spica

Donna Ritchie, M.B.A.

Vice President of Business Development, Merrimack College

Nurtekin Savas, M.S., M.B.A.

Capital One; Head of Data, Credit Infrastructure, ML – Business Cards & Payments

Arvind Sharma, Ph.D.

Boston College; Assistant Professor of the Practice in Applied Economics

Esin Sile, Ph.D.

College Find Me; CEO

Ra’ad Siraj, M.S.

Head of AI & Data Privacy Governance, MassMutual

Sasha Tomic, Ph.D. (Chair)

Assoc. Dean of Strategy, Innovation and Technology / Senior Program Director of MSAE and MSAA

Eugene Wen, M.D., Dr.PH

Manulife Financial; Vice President & Global Chief Data Scientist

Sheri Xie, Ph.D.

Global Head of Transfer Pricing, Liberty Mutual

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