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Dr. Thorsten Rogall is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia's Vancouver School of Economics. He obtained his Diplom in Economics at the University of Mannheim, during which time he was a visiting student in the economics PhD program at Yale University, completed a fellowship at McKinsey & Company, and received a Friedrich Ebert Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship. Following his Diplom, he completed a master's in economics at Yale, followed by a PhD at the Institute for International Economic Studies in Stockholm. Dr. Rogall now teaches at the University of British Columbia, where his main research and teaching interests are in the political economy of development. He has focused particularly on conflict, extensively researching the Rwandan Genocide to understand how it was orchestrated and how it gained momentum. He referees for eight academic journals including the Journal of Political Economy, and he has received several honours, scholarships and fellowships, including the Yale University Graduate Fellowship, the Hampton New Faculty Award, and the UBC AURA Award.
Dr. Mauricio Drelichman is an associate professor of economics and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of British Columbia's Vancouver School of Economics. He received his licentiate and magister in economics from the Universidad de San Andrés, following this with a certificate in law and social science and a PhD in economics from Northwestern University. He joined the UBC economics faculty in 2003, and has since been a visiting professor at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, the Center for Monetary and Financial Studies in Madrid, Bocconi University in Milan, and the Universidad de San Andrés in Argentina. Dr. Drelichman's research area is economic history, particularly that of Early Modern Spain. He's been a fellow in the Institutions, Organizations and Growth program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and his research has received several awards, including the UBC Killiam Faculty Research Fellowship. He has presented at dozens of conferences at top universities in North America, South America and Europe, including Oxford, Yale and Harvard. Alongside several published papers, book chapters and book reviews, he is co-author of the book, Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II.
Dr. Jamie McCasland is an assistant professor of economics at the University of British Columbia. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in economics at UCLA in 2004, receiving the UCLA Department of Economics Recognition of Academic Excellence Award, before joining Triage Consulting Group, which serves hospitals and has recovered over $4 billion for over 800 hospital clients. Dr. McCasland spent a year as a Reproductive Health Education US Peace Corps Volunteer in Kenya, followed by two years as a Senior Evaluation Coordinator for Innovations for Poverty Action - Kenya. In 2015, she completed her PhD in economics at UC Berkeley and began teaching at the University of British Columbia's Vancouver School of Economics. Dr. McCasland's work has included field experiments in Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, and Ghana, and her current research studies small firm hiring, job training, and technology adoption in low-income countries. She is a referee for several journals including the Journal of the European Economics Association, and she is the recipient of over 15 awards and grants including the Journal of Development Economics Dissertation Award and the World Bank Jobs MDTF Grant.
Dr. Siwan Anderson is a professor at the University of British Columbia's Vancouver School of Economics. She holds a Bachelor of Sciences in mathematics, a Master of Arts in economics and a PhD in economics from the University of British Columbia. Her research focus is development economics, particularly looking at the role of institutions in developing countries, and gender economics, looking at the role of women in the economy. Dr. Anderson is an associate of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, a fellow of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, a faculty associate at the Center for Effective Global Action, and an associate at Theoretical Research in Development Economics, or ThReD. She has published over 15 research papers; one of her most recent papers explored women's property rights and marriage transfers and was published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Dr. Anderson is an associate editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics and the Journal of Development Economics, and she is on the editorial board of the Journal of Globalization and Development. She has received over 20 grants and awards including the UBC Killiam Research Prize, and she's the first woman ever to receive the John Rae Prize from the Canadian Economics Association.
Dr. Jonathan Graves is an assistant professor of teaching at the University of British Columbia's Vancouver School of Economics. Dr. Graves completed his Bachelor of Sciences at the University of Victoria in 2008, with double honours in mathematics and economics, before working as an analyst at Labatt Breweries of Canada. He followed this with a Master's and PhD in economics at the University of British Columbia, and he now teaches intermediate and senior undergraduate economics courses, particularly those on applied economics. Dr. Graves is also part of his university's educational leadership faculty, collaborating on research into the teaching and learning of economics. This combination of interests is reflected in his research papers, grants and in awards including the University of British Columbia's Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, presented in 2014.
Tamar Milne is a lecturer in marketing and behavioural science at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business. She's designed and delivered many of the business school's sustainability, ethics and social entrepreneurship courses and she has served as the Chair of UBC Sauder's Sustainability and Ethics Group. She's also served as a Teaching and Learning Fellow with UBC's University Sustainability Initiative. Tamar graduated from her undergraduate degree at UBC with a Bachelor of Commerce and Business Administration, specializing in marketing, and then spent two decades working in managerial marketing and corporate communications roles at several household names in Vancouver, including Sun Peaks Resort and Air Canada Jazz. Tamar's teaching has earned several awards including the UBC Killiam Teaching Excellence Award, the Commerce Undergraduate Society Teaching Excellence Award and the Sauder Alumni Talking Stick Award for Teaching Innovation.
Dr. Elizabeth Hodgson is a professor of English and former Associate Head of the English department at the University of British Columbia. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in English honours at UBC followed by a Master of Arts at the University of Toronto and a PhD in English at Brandeis University in Boston. Dr. Hodgson began teaching at UBC in 1995. She has since served on the Graduate Committee in the Department of English and been the president of the UBC Faculty Association. Currently, she serves on the Academic Freedom & Tenure Committee of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, and she created and is now the faculty advisor of the English department's PhD Co-op program. Dr. Hodgson's research focus is the English Renaissance - she is particularly interested in historicism, feminist theory, poetics, and cultural theory. In addition to her published articles and book chapters, she has written two books: Gender and the Sacred Self in John Donne and Grief and Women Writers. Her third book, Milton's Masculinities, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Marlisse Silver Sweeney is a lecturer at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business and a freelance journalist. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in creative writing at UBC, receiving the Canadian Millennium Excellence Scholar award from the Government of Canada. She followed this by attending UBC's Faculty of Law, completing her Juris Doctor and receiving the Law Foundation Scholarship. During this time, she was an articled student for Clark Wilson LLP; after her JD, she was called to the Bar of British Columbia and she's now a non-practicing lawyer. Marlisse later completed a Master of Science in journalism at Columbia University in New York, and spent two years as a news writer and web producer for Global News. In 2014, she joined the faculty at UBC, becoming first an adjunct professor then a full-time lecturer at the Sauder School of Business' Law and Communication Division; she also chairs the International Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarship Selection Committee. Marlisse's freelance journalism has been published throughout North America, including in The Atlantic, The Globe and Mail, The Columbia Journalism Review, Ars Technica and American Lawyer Magazine.
Dr. Victor Couture is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia's Vancouver School of Economics. He completed a Bachelor of Arts at McGill University followed by a master's and PhD in economics, at the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto respectively. Following his PhD, Dr. Couture taught as an Assistant Professor of Real Estate at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, before teaching economics at UBC. Within economics, he has focused his research on urban economics and transportation, such as estimating the impact of the first nationwide e-commerce expansion program on rural households in China. He has been a Distinguished Scholar at UBC's Sauder School of Business, and has received over 15 grants and awards including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Development Program Grant and, most recently, a grant from the World Bank. Dr. Couture has been a Cowles Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University's economics department; he is on the editorial board of the Journal of Economic Geography, and he has refereed for almost 30 journals including the American Economic Review and Econometrica.
Yuri Taira is the Managing Director of Shine Canada. She is an adjunct professor at University Canada West, and a lecturer at Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business. Yuri completed a BA in English Literature at Konan University in Japan and began her career as a branch manager for Nova Corporation in Japan. She then became a sales manager at AOL Japan and later joined Mazda's Global Supply Chain Management Department. She completed her MBA in Marketing at the University of British Columbia and has since become a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant and a BC Certified Career Development Practitioner, founding Shine Canada, an immigration consulting firm which provides immigration support and career development services. Yuri teaches a huge range of business courses, from Global Marketing Management to Strategy and Decision Making, and she teaches in both MBA and undergraduate Bachelor of Commerce programs.
Pawel Dziewulsky is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Sussex. He completed his PhD in economics at Oxford University in 2015, where he wrote his thesis on time-dependence and revealed preference. Since then, he has since taught economics courses ranging from microeconomics to game theory to applied mathematics for economists. His research has earned several awards - these include the Doctoral Studentship Award from the Oxford economics department, as well as the Research Excellence Award at the University of Sussex Business School. He has presented his work at conferences and seminars from Paris and Berlin to Montreal and California. He has been a referee for 14 academic journals, including the American Economic Journal and Econometrica - names which may be very familiar to economics students.
Dr. Angela Redish is an economics professor at the University of British Columbia. She completed her BA in honours economics at Wilfrid Laurier University, followed by a master's and PhD in economics at the University of Western Ontario. During her time as a professor, Dr. Redish has served as special advisor to the Bank of Canada, head of the economics department and senior advisor to the president at the University of British Columbia, and visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University. Her 20+ journal publications have focused on the history of monetary and banking systems in Europe and North America, receiving several national grants, and she is the co-author of the Canadian first edition of Money, Banking and Financial Markets. Dr. Redish has served as a member of the C.D. Howe Monetary Policy Council, assessing Canadian monetary policy; she has been an Editorial Board Member of several journals including the European Review of Economic History, and she is a past president of the Canadian Economics Association.
Dr. Felipe Valencia Caicedo is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia's Vancouver School of Economics. He completed his BA at Brown University, with master's degrees from Brown University and Yale University, followed by a PhD in economics, finance and management from Spain's Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Between his bachelor's and master's degrees, Dr. Valencia completed a summer analyst internship at Goldman Sachs, receiving the Goldman Sachs Scholarship for Excellence, and following his master's, he was an extended term consultant in the Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean. After his PhD, Dr. Valencia became a tenure track assistant professor at Germany's Bonn University, before joining the University of British Columbia. His research has been featured in Vox and the Washington Post, among others. He referees for over 15 journals, including Econometrica and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and he is a research affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research.
Dr. Alison Harris is an abdominal radiologist in Vancouver, Canada. She holds a Bachelor of Science with honours, a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, and Doctor of Medicine, having received her medical degree in the UK before moving to Canada. During her medical training in the UK, Dr. Harris completed an internship at Leicester Royal Infirmary and Leicester General Hospital, as well as a radiology residency at St. Mary's Hospital, London. At Vancouver General, she completed a sub-specialty radiology fellowship in the Abdominal Imaging and Intervention department and, in 2007, she became Medical Head of the Abdominal Division. Dr. Harris is a past president of the British Columbia Radiological Society and current secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Association of Radiologists. She is also vice president of the Vancouver Medical, Dental and Allied Staff Association and the Vancouver Physician Staff Association. Dr. Harris is a clinical associate professor and Abdominal Fellowship Director at the University of British Columbia, has authored or co-authored over 60 research publications, and is a winner of the UBC Burhenne Scholarship Award in Radiology.
Dr. Siân Echard is a Professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia. She completed her Master's and PhD at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto in 1990. Since then, she has taught courses in Middle English Literature, medievalism, book history and the Arthurian tradition, and she has published over 40 works on these topics. Among these, she has published several books including Printing the Middle Ages, released in 2008, and The Arthur of Medieval Latin Literature, in 2011. She's one of two general editors of The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain and has just finished co-writing a history of the book in Britain. She has been awarded the prestigious UBC Killiam Research Prize and Teaching Prize, has been the Head of the English Department at the University of British Columbia, and is now a member of the governing council of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
From premed at Stanford to web development to becoming the Chair of UBC Sauder's Marketing & Behavioural Science Division, Dr. Hardisty discusses rejection, persistence, and what to do when your planned career doesn't feel like a fit.
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Dr. David J. Hardisty is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business. He completed his BA at Stanford, his Master of Research at the Université Paris Descartes, and his MA, MPhil and PhD at Columbia University in New York. Though his degrees are in psychology, Dr. Hardisty's career path has ranged from beginning as a premed student at Stanford to teaching English in Japan, later working as a freelance web developer, before beginning his current research into consumer behaviour. He teaches courses in consumer decision-making, ethics and sustainability, and he's published over 20 papers in journals including the Journal of Consumer Psychology and the Journal of Marketing. He is an editorial board member for the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, as well as an ad hoc reviewer for over 30 other journals. In 2018, he co-founded the Centre for Decision Insights for Business and Society, and he is the Chair of the University of British Columbia's Marketing and Behavioural Science Division.