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Below is a list of the types of positions taken by our Master's students since 1995. Employment by sector appears in the graph below.

• Staff Economist, RCF Economic and Financial Consulting, Inc., Chicago IL
• Research Assistant, Interamerican Development Bank, Washington DC
• Policy Advisor, World Vision International
• Christensen & Associates, Madison WI (economic consulting firm)
• Operations Research Analyst, ZS Associates, Evanston, IL (organizational consulting for pharmaceutical companies)
• Regional Assistant for Planning and Evaluation, Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Peace Corps
• Faculty Associate, Institute for Environmental Studies, UW-Madison, and instructor, Madison Area Technical College
• Department of Natural Resources, State of Wisconsin
• Family Health International, Durham, North Carolina (non-profit international public health organization)
• International Sales Manager, Froedert Malting Corporation, Milwaukee, WI
• Economist, Frostiv, Israel (frozen food distributor)
• Outreach Specialist, Great Lakes Intertribal Managed Care Demonstration Project, Family Medicine Department, UW-Madison
• International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya
• World Bank
• Foreign Agriculture Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
• International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC
• Research consultant, UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty
• Fiscal Analyst, Legislative Fiscal Bureau, State of Wisconsin
• Resource Valuation Manager, Water Use Planning, BC Hydro, British Columbia, Canada
• Research Scientist, Bureau of Integrated Science Services, Department of Natural Resources, State of Wisconsin
• Associate, Stratus Consulting, Inc, Boulder CO (environment and energy research)
• US Agency for International Development, Washington DC
• Research Fellow, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Economics Instructor, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee
• Economics Instructor, IBMEC Business School, Sao Paulo, Brazil
• World Council of Credit Unions, Madison WI
• County Extension Agent, Waukesha County, Wisconsin
• Associate Director, BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, UW-Madison (funded by USAID)
• Instituto de Pesquisa Economica Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Financial Comptroller, Lake Country Dairy, Turtle Lake, WI
• National Agricultural Cooperative Federation of Korea, Seoul, Korea
• Outreach Coordinator, Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program, UW-Madison
• Associate Planner, Agnew Beck Consulting Group, Anchorage, AK (community development in rural Alaska)
• Investment in Japan Information Center, Cabinet Office of Japan
• Managing Associate, Nathan Associates, Inc., Arlington VA (economic development consulting)
• Economist, Fisheries Monitoring and Socioeconomics Division, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (NOAA), Honolulu, Hawaii
• Economist, Virginia State Department of Planning and Budget
• Research Associate, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University
• Research Associate, Stratus Consulting, Inc, Boulder CO (environment and energy research)
• Industry Economist, Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington DC
• Economist, Seattle City Light, Seattle, WA
• Research Associate, Industrial Economics, Inc., Boston, MA
• Economist, Energy Center of Wisconsin (non-profit research and policy center), Madison, WI
• Shawano County Agriculture Agent, University of Wisconsin Extension
• Financial Consulting Associate, Charles River Associates, Washington DC
• Senior Consultant, Navigant Consulting (energy efficiency program evaluation), Madison
• Epic medical software, Verona WI

• Leader of Benchmarking and Economic Studies, Power System Engineering, Madison

• Clerk, US Court of International Trade, New York
• Pricing Analyst, Exelon Energy, Kennett Square, PA