Current PhD Students in Finance
PhD in Finance Placement
The Finance Division at Columbia Business School has a track record of training scholars who go on to become academics at many of the world’s most prestigious institutions.
Here is a list of placements, by year of graduation, over the past few years:
| Year | Name | Initial Placement |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Nanyu Chen | Tsinghua University, PBC School of Finance |
| 2026 | Jessica Goldenring | Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder |
| 2026 | Yuqi Zhang | Uber |
| 2026 | Candy Martinez | MIT, Postdoctoral Associate |
| 2025 | Amanda Dos Santos | NYU Stern School of Business |
| 2025 | Jeremias Huber | International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group |
| 2025 | Stefan Walz | Boston College Carroll School of Management |
| 2024 | Brian Lee | Goizueta Business School, Emory University |
| 2024 | Naz Koont | Stanford Graduate School of Business |
| 2024 | Xiaobo Yu | Leeds School of Business, CU Boulder |
| 2024 | Lukas Fischer | Citadel |
| 2023 | Sharada Sridhar | Scheller School of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 2023 | Vrinda Mittal | UNC, Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School. |
| 2023 | Rittavee Keeratiwutthikul | The Federal Reserve |
| 2023 | Seyed Mansouri | Rohatyn Group |
| 2022 | Oliver Giesecke | Hoover Institution, Stanford University |
| 2022 | Kerry Siani | Sloan School of Management, MIT |
| 2022 | Shayan Dashmiz | Goldman Sachs |
| 2022 | Kim Cramer | London School of Economics |
| 2022 | Adrien Alvero | TRG Capital Management |
| 2021 | Aref Bolandnazar | Texas A&M University |
| 2021 | Christina Tessari | Goldman Sachs |
| 2021 | Lira Mota | Sloan School of Management, MIT |
| 2021 | Renxuan Wang | China Europe International Business School |
| 2020 | Rebecca De Simone | London Business School |
| 2020 | Xiao Cen | Texas A&M University |
| 2020 | Tuomas Tomunen | Boston College, Carroll School of Management |
| 2020 | Danqing Mei | Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business |
| 2020 | Poorya Kabir | NUS Business School |
| 2020 | Yifeng Guo | AQR Capital |
| 2020 | Yahui Wang | Dimensional Fund Advisors |
| 2019 | Minchen Zheng | Man Group Hedge Fund |
| 2019 | Ruoke Yang | Imperial College, London (postdoc) |
| 2018 | Ran Xu | Boston College, Carroll School of Management |
| 2018 | Joshua Mitts | Columbia Law School |
| 2018 | Zoi Melina Papoutsi | European Central Bank |
| 2017 | Pablo Slutsky | Robert Smith, University of Maryland |
| 2017 | Ye Li | Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business |
| 2015 | Jaehyun Cho | QMS Capital Management |
| 2015 | Bingxu Chen | Soros Fund Management |
| 2014 | Mattia Landoni | Cox, Southern Methodist University |
| 2014 | Bronson Argyle | Marriott, BYU |
| 2014 | Jun Kyung Auh | McDonough, Georgetown |
| 2014 | Zhongjin Lu | Terry, University of Georgia |