Alyssa is originally from Connecticut, but between her family in Texas and her University of Virginia pride, she doesn’t feel like a northerner anymore. At the University of Virginia, she double majored in Political Philosophy, Policy and Law (PPL) and Spanish, graduating summa cum laude and...

Anahid’s fervor for human development began as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, where she received her Bachelors degrees in both Psychology and Public Policy. She intertwined the study of human development from a micro intrapersonal perspective in psychology, as well as a macro organization...

Andrew recently earned an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, majoring in Marketing and Operations, and an M.A. in International Studies from the Lauder Institute.  At Wharton, Andrew published an article on Russian grocery chains, served as Lauder Student Advisory Board...

Antonio was born in Los Angeles, CA. From an early age, he showed an affinity for mathematics, teaching himself calculus at the age of 13. After reading Stephen Hawking’s “The Universe in a Nutshell” and “A Brief History of Time”, he became fascinated by physics. In 2008, he entered Columbia’s...

Brian is originally from Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia, in a quiet neighborhood of Glenmoore.  For the past eight years, however, Boston has been his home; first as an undergraduate at Boston University, and now as a graduate student at Northeastern University.  As an undergraduate...

Candise is originally from Taipei, Taiwan, but has lived across the US, Europe, and most recently in southern Africa (Lesotho!). She attended boarding school at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, where she developed a strong interest in earth and environmental sciences. She was inspired...

Caroline Dell is a Senior Associate Consultant in Bain & Company’s New York office. She joined Bain full-time in September 2013, after an internship during the summer of 2012.

Caroline graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in Economics and Public Policy. While at Brown, she was...

Dan has spent his life cutting out an independent path. He self-studied all of the advanced math classes that were available at his high school and left after his sophomore year to start college two years early. There, Dan fell in love with advanced mathematics and started tutoring other...

Dennis was born in Leningrad (Now St. Petersburg), Russia. He moved to the US when he was young and grew up in Boston, MA. Dennis attended Northeastern University and spent several years working for a large supply chain management firm in Boston, Chicago and New York, before attending the Tuck...

My name is Diego, I am an economics PhD student at University of Sussex in the UK. I started my doctoral studies at University College London, where I also did a Master’s in Economic Policy in 2014. Prior to that I completed another Mater’s in Economics and Philosophy at the London School of...

For as long as she can remember, Liz has always loved traveling, puzzles and art. Out of a desire to understand the world and its inner workings, Liz pursued a degree in Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University graduating Magna cum Laude. She completed her thesis on developing a biosand...

Emily has always had a love of learning. She enjoyed coming early to elementary school for French lessons and math club, asked her middle school math teacher for extra homework, and was the valedictorian of her high school class at Northfield Mount Hermon. She graduated from Princeton University...

Ernesto was born in Albania, but grew up in upstate New York. Ernesto went to Harvard, where he developed a love for economics and the economists’ lens on the world, ultimately concentrating on this field. He also found statistics to be incredibly useful, and devoted much of his coursework to...

Graham is an MD MBA student at Vanderbilt University and Harvard University. He graduated from Harvard Business School in May 2018 and will be applying for a medical Residency this fall. Prior to his postgraduate studies, Graham graduated from MIT in 2012 as member of the Tau Beta Pi Honor...

Harish Vemuri is a JD candidate at Harvard Law School. He was previously a Consultant in Bain & Company’s Los Angeles office. He joined the firm in 2013 and worked primarily on strategy cases across the utilities, healthcare, gaming, financial services, apparel, and private equity sectors. ...

Jim grew up in and around New York City thinking he’d spend his life as a musician. That all changed when he went to Oberlin and discovered that he loved math and economics, much to the chagrin of his music playing self. He earned his BA from Oberlin with High Honors in Economics and a minor in...

Jodi grew up in Hollywood, Florida.  She attended Nova High School, where she graduated as valedictorian of her class, winning several national mathematics awards along the way.  Her aptitude for all things quantitative landed her at MIT, where she pursued degrees in Computer Science and...

Jonathan spent the first 18 years of his life in NYC before making the daunting and unexpected journey to Boston, attending Tufts University. While in college, Jonathan double majored in Political Science and Economics, sat on the executive board of his fraternity and served as president of J...

Josie grew up in the woods of Vermont before attending Amherst College, where she majored in Economics and Environmental Studies and graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She was awarded the James R. Nelson Prize for her health economics senior thesis. While at Amherst, she played for...

Marc is from Westchester, NY and he continually laments not having grown up in New York City. Marc attended Cornell University where he became acquainted with every library the campus had to offer. He graduated with a B.S. in Industrial Labor Relations and a minor in Economics with honors....

A New Orleans native, Michael grew up on Cajun cooking, southern hospitality, and books from his local library. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior, he graduated summa cum laude and with College Honors from Louisiana State University with a BS in Chemical Engineering and a BA in Economics. In...

Nick is just your typical kid from Westchester, NY. After living the dream as a peewee ice hockey player, he moved to North Carolina for college. He finished summa cum laude at Wake Forest University in philosophy. After he submitted his graduate school applications, he took 8 months exploring...

Pete is originally from Dallas, Texas (go Cowboys!). He discovered his passion for business in middle school when he realized he could double his lunch money by buying and trading his classmates’ favorite lunch items. He moved to Cambridge in 2008 to study Civil Engineering and Economics at MIT...

Rae is originally from Lexington, Kentucky. After high school, she headed west to the Bay Area, where she completed her BA in Economics with Honors and Distinction at Stanford University. At Stanford, she studied art and the Italian language in Florence, Italy and earned membership in Phi Beta...

Richard was born in Canada and immigrated to the United States in elementary school, settling in the calm suburbs of Missouri. He graduated from Princeton with a degree in chemistry before spending two years at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar studying Global Health Sciences and receiving...

Samara joined Cambridge Consulting in the fall of 2018. After receiving a BBA from The George Washington University in Finance and Communication, Samara worked as a management consultant for four years at Deloitte Consulting. Samara has spent the last two years completing her MBA at Columbia...

Sara is originally from San Diego, where she grew up loving the beach and the sun. Nonetheless, she decided (perhaps foolishly) to give it all up to move to Boston and attend MIT, where she graduated with a degree in Math with Computer Science and minors in economics and business. After...

Song graduated cum laude from the University of Southern California, where she studied Sociology and was a research assistant studying economic redevelopment in South Central Los Angeles. After college, she moved to Seoul for a bit of soul-searching, while working for the then leader of the...

Sophia grew up in Westchester, NY, about an hour north of Manhattan. She attended New York University where she focused on pre-med studies and and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Economics.  Sophia particularly enjoyed her thesis work on the effect of healthcare...

Samara worked as a management consultant for four years at Deloitte Consulting after receiving a BBA from The George Washington University in Finance and Communication. She has spent the last two years completing her MBA at Columbia Business School. After graduation, she is returning to Deloitte...

Tim recently earned a Master’s degree in Economic Policy from the University College London (UCL) (ranked #1 by the UK’s Research Excellence Framework and #16 globally for economics and econometrics), focusing on health economics, time series econometrics, macroeconomic policy, and applied...

Will grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, where he became a die-hard fan of the Chicago White Sox and hot dogs (really). Will completed his undergraduate studies at Yale University, where he majored in Ethics, Politics and Economics and spent a semester studying abroad at Oxford University. After...