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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.

CVS Health; Executive Director, Data Science, Customer Experience and Call Servicing

Lisa Emsbo-Mattingly, M.A.

Fidelity; Director of Research, Global Asset Allocation

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

Paul Garvey, Ph.D.

MITRE; Chief Scientist, Center for Acquisition and Management Science

John Griffin, Ph.D.

Charles River Associates; Vice President

Derya Isler, M.B.A.

Spotify; Product Leader – Personalization

Stephen Lawrence, Ph.D.

Vanguard; Head of Investment Management Fintech Data Science

Fr. Richard McGowan, D.B.A.

Jesuit East Coast Province; Treasurer / Boston College, Faculty

Karen Muncaster, Ph.D.

Boston College; Dean of the Woods College of Advancing Studies

Robert Murphy, Ph.D.

Boston College; Associate Professor of Economics

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

Capital One; Head of Machine Learning & Data Science (Enterprise Products + Platforms)

Esin Sile, Ph.D.

College Find Me; Board Member

Ra’ad Siraj, M.S.

MassMutual, Head of AI Governance

Sasha Tomic, Ph.D. (Chair)

Boston College

Eugene Wen, M.D., Dr.PH

Manulife Financial; Vice President, Group Advanced Analytics

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