Alumni Notes

William Chiu
San Francisco, CA
Undergraduate
2005

I manage a team of statistical modelers at a large bank. We use R and SQL to extract insights and produce forecasts. Please reach out if you’re interested in a career in econometrics and banking.

Belinda Hu
Washington, D.C
2019
Michael Steinberger
Claremont, CA
Undergraduate
1999

Our second daughter, Juliet was born in August. She and Isabel (age 2) make us so grateful for any Silent Night they may deliver to us during this holiday season.

Jenny Wong
Jenny Wong
Berkeley, CA
Undergraduate
1996

I was sworn in as the elected Berkeley City Auditor in December 2018. In May, I celebrated my 20th wedding anniversary with Mark Schlosberg, also a Cal Economics Alumni.

Stephan Weiler
Stephan Weiler
Birmingham (UK) and Fort Collins
Graduate
1994

I'm finishing a Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair six-month term at our partner institute, the City-Region Economic Development Institute at the University of Birmingham Business School  (UK). 

Sean F. Ennis
Norwich, England
Graduate
1996

I am moving from the OECD to the University of East Anglia in 2019 to become Director of the Centre for Competition Policy and Professor at Norwich Business School.

Stephen Lawton
Hercules, CA
Undergraduate
1976

Brokering a waterfront parcel in the Bay Area. Also: volunteering with Urban Land Institute on programs illuminating solutions to California's obsolete housing and land-use policies. 

Mark Hugo Lopez
Washington, D.C
Undergraduate
1989

I'm the new director of Global Migration & Demography research at the Pew Research Center, focusing on international and domestic migration.

Jun wei Lao
Dublin
Undergraduate
2017

Started a new job at 2018 US Top 100 Fin-tech start-up in account management and payment operation.

Khuong Le
Berkeley, CA
Undergraduate
2018

I started a new job right at home at the UC Berkeley Student Learning Center to re-ignite the fiery passion for Economics in undergraduates by employing active and collaborative learning strategies.  

Last month, staring at the sky from a boat in the middle of a pitch black Lake Tahoe, I felt my calling. I was born to inspire dreams and uplift passions - I was born to be an educator.

Yizhuang Alden Cheng
Singapore
Undergraduate
2016

In my 2nd year of an Econ PhD program at MIT.

Ronald Park
Bremerton, WA
Undergraduate
2008

Since graduating, I've worked at an economics consulting firm, joined the Peace Corps, went to law school, and clerked for two federal judges. Just moved to WA from CA to work as a trial lawyer.

Ben Winston
San Francisco, CA
Undergraduate
2009

I currently work in Business Operations at Lam Research, which specializes in supplying semiconductor capital equipment to advanced electronics chipmakers. Prior to my current position, I earned an MBA at Chicago Booth after serving 6 years as an officer in the U.S. Navy. I volunteer for One Brick, where I enjoy working with teams of old friends and new ones to support SF Bay Area community-building.

Christel Konang Sivero
Santa Monica, CA
Undergraduate
1969

​Published books and music under the Pseudonym Christel Alexander: “My Berlin: Childhood Reflections” and “Christel Alexander’s Dance Music: International Ballroom Pro/Am”, among others.  

Bruce Wydick
Berkeley, CA
Graduate
1996

Still professor of economics at the University of San Francisco. I'm a research affiliate with CEGA at Berkeley, and a distinguished research affiliate at the Kellogg Institute at Notre Dame.

David Swartz
Oak Park, IL
Undergraduate
1994

I recently joined Morningstar in Chicago as a stock analyst. I am working in the consumer group and following retail and apparel companies.

Brandon Lehr
Los Angeles, CA
Undergraduate
2005

I'm Associate Professor of Economics at Occidental College, where I teach Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Behavioral Economics, Health Economics, and the Honors Seminar.

Darryl Won
San Francisco, CA
Undergraduate
1987

As Chief Appraiser at Bank of America's Real Estate Valuation Business Unit, I'm engaged in Valuation Risk Management & Mitigation.

Simon Greenhill
San Francisco, CA
Undergraduate
2018

I started my first job as a research assistant at Climate Impact Lab, a mutli-institution research group seeking to predict the socioeconomic costs of climate change. 

Brita Priest
San Francisco, CA
Undergraduate
2014

After spending 4 years at PwC in Transfer Pricing Consulting, I started a new job as a Product Specialist at Airbnb. I'm excited for a new adventure and to learn all there is to know about product! In my spare time I volunteer as a Chapter Advisor at Chi Omega, an organization that shaped my experience at Cal and provided me with valuable leadership experience. I currently am an advisor to the vice president.

Jean-Philippe Stijns
Luxemburg
Graduate
2003
I’m a Senior Economist at the European Investment Bank (EIB), currently responsible for sovereign and banking sector risk rating in Central African countries, supporting the EIB’s operations in the corresponding countries. I’m also the coordinator of and a contributor to the EIB’s annual Study of Banking Sectors in sub-Saharan Africa, and I coordinate EIB’s survey of African banking groups. I’m currently a Lecturer in International Economics at SciencesPo, Collège Universitaire, in Nancy, France.
Prior to joining the EIB, I held positions at the IMF’s Africa Department, with the OECD’s Development Centre, as Investment Strategist for ING, and as Assistant Professor of Macroeconomics and International Economics at Northeastern University. While working at the Development Centre, I contributed to the African Economic Outlook.
Alex Heuer
San Francisco, CA
Undergraduate
2018

 I started working in SF at Stripe, a financial technology company that processes online payments with the goal of increasing the economic infrastructure of the internet. I work on the Risk team.

Ka-lai Wong
Hong Kong
Undergraduate
1998

I am a full-time mom and freelance wine educator, consultant, and writer. 

James Aylward
Oakland, CA
Undergraduate
2016

I started a new job as Economic Analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

Daniel Remler
Washington, DC
Undergraduate
2015

I recently started my first semester of a combined MBA-MPP graduate degree program at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

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