Alumni Career Paths

Consulting Firms

	Marjan Aikimbaeva '10 (Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets) Microfinance Consultant Fundación Paraguaya Asunción, Paraguay
"Right now I am conducting an impact analysis for the entire organization. I will be calculating the effectiveness of Fundación Paraguaya's programs on the elimination of poverty in Paraguay. Everything I learned last year in the master program enables me to do such analysis. In fact, this project will be an improved version of my grad project for GSE." Eye on Alumni Feature
	Thiago Arashiro '10 (Competition and Market Regulation) Economist Tendêndicas Consultoria Integrada São Paulo, Brazil
"My work involves econometric analysis to support companies during their merger process, advising companies against a complaint of anti-competitive practices in the competition authority, or any case related to competition policy. We also have to deal with theoretical issues advising regulated-industry companies (such as electricity) during public consultations. I was hired right after graduating from the master program - the highly practical focus of the program gave me good knowledge to perform this type of challenging analysis."
	David Araujo '09 (Economics of Science and Innovation) Director TATA Consultancy Services (Ecuador)
"I am the director of the Business Intelligence, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Practice for the Quito office of TATA Consultancy Services. I manage all of the projects involving the implementation of business intelligence, as well as those cases involving the generation of new businesses and exploitation of technology, which is all quite closely related with what we studied in the MESI program. "Prior to this, I was in charge of the Technology Exploitation & Entrepreneurship Department at ASCAMM in Barcelona. This involved trying to transfer technologies the center produces in its R&D projects (European, national or regional) into the market, either by licensing our patents or by creating spin-offs."
	Enric Fuster '09 (Economics of Science and Innovation) Consultant, Innovation in Urban Spaces and Territories Innopro Global Services (Barcelona)
	Andrea Commisso '08 (Competition and Market Regulation) Research Analyst LECG (Milan)
"My job is to support senior economists throughout the entire course of an antitrust case. My daily tasks include data analysis, literature reviews, and drafting parts of the final report that we will submit to the European Commission and other antitrust authorities."
	Stéphane Dewulf '09 (Competition and Market Regulation) Senior Associate RBB Economics (Brussels)
"My work focuses on using economic analysis to provide advice in competition policy cases. I have worked on abuse of dominance, merger, state aid and cartel cases before the European Commission and national competition authorities; covering a range of industries including banking, telecom, tobacco, airlines, satellite navigation, electrical distribution and steel industries." [professional biography]
	Patrick Lavery '09 (Economics of Science and Innovation) Senior Consultant Cardno (Brisbane, Australia)

	Jake Morris '09 (Competition and Market Regulation) Associate RBB Economics (The Hague, Netherlands)
"I am currently working on a merger in the pharmaceutical industry between two of the largest global players. It basically involves defining relevant markets and determining how much market power would be held by the combined entity in each of them following the merger. This allows us to identify those markets that are likely to cause competition concerns, with the next step being to take a closer look at the validity of those concerns per market. As the analysis covers a broad spectrum of markets across a large number of countries, it is a highly data intensive project with a relatively long duration. A particular challenge here is being able to coordinate to collect sufficient data on a global scale and build up a reliable database as the foundation for further analysis." Eye on Alumni Feature
	Alessandro Panozzo '08 (Finance) Consultant Accenture (Italy)
"In 2007 I decided to deepen my economic and financial knowledge by attending the Barcelona GSE's master program in Finance. This 'sabbatical year' was for me a great opportunity to extend my studies in the fields of finance, investments and business in an extremely multicultural environment and, last but not least, staying in an unforgettable city like Barcelona! Once I came back to Accenture, I could apply what I'd learned to several areas of my work as a professional consultant: Comparison with international students has improved my soft skills during business meetings and for the organization of complex activities involving many people. Financial training helped me in the analysis of specific aspects of operational, liquidity and interest rate risks. Statistical methods have been useful in analyzing data and research information."
	Jordi Prats '10 Transfer Pricing Manager Deloitte Buenos Aires
"I advise multinational companies on transfer pricing documentation according to the specific legislation of each country (I have a wide experience on Latin American issues), foreign trade and financial restructurings and help companies develop a suitable tax planning of their transfer prices. I have a strong track record in delivering large scale, multi-jurisdictional project solutions and I have extensive international transfer pricing experience. I have worked with Big 4 firm in two countries and I have a deep network of contacts the world over."