Alumni Profiles

  • 2021

  • Ahmed AlJuhany

    Previous education: BA in Economics (Waseda University)

    Master’s thesis: "Explaining Culture: Dual Inheritance Theory and the Pursuit of How-Possibly’s"

    After graduation: PhD student at the University of Calgary

  • Kristian Bakker

    Previous education: BA Liberal Arts and Sciences (University College Maastricht); MA Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (Leiden University)

    Master's thesis: “Housing, the home of inequality – On the impossibility of applying egalitarian distributive theories to heterogeneous goods” 

    After graduation: Internship at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management and a Master in Urban, Port and Transport Economics
     

  • Elisabetta Gobbo

    Previous education: BA in Philosophy, Economics and International Studies (Ca' Foscari University, Venice)

    Master's thesis: "What should the right to the city entail? Occupancy rights and freedom from relational wrongs."

    After graduation:  PhD student at the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Inequality Against Freedom project 

  • Toine van Mourik

    Previous education: BSc Industrial Engineering (TU Eindhoven), BA Philosophy (KU Leuven)

    Master's thesis: “Affirmative Action as Distributive Justice – a Luck Egalitarian Defense of Preferential Selection Policies” 

    After graduation: Trainee at Vereniging Nederlandse Gemeenten (VNG)

  • 2020

  • Pascal Ally

    Previous education: DipHE in Education, English and African Culture; BA in Education and English; MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (University of York, UK)

    Master's thesis: Confronting the Central Conflict: Raz on Well-being and Morality

    After graduation: PhD student at the University of Sheffield

  • Gaia Belardinelli 

    Previous education: BA Philosophy (University of Padua), MSc Logic (University of Amsterdam) 

    Master's thesis: "Comparative and non-comparative aspects of desert-adjusted axiologies"

    After graduation: PhD student at the Center for Information and Bubble Studies, Copenhagen

  • Tim van Dijke

    Previous education: BA Liberal Arts and Sciences (University College Maastricht); MA Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (Leiden University)

    Master's thesis: “The European Central Bank, Independence, and Legitimacy”

    After graduation: Trainee at the Health Department of Berenshot

  • Lior Nissim Grinman

    Previous education: BA Economics and Labour Studies (Tel-Aviv University), pre-MA year History and Philosophy of Sciences and Ideas (Tel-Aviv University).

    Master's thesis: “Behavioral Paternalism: What is it? Can it be defended?"

    After graduation: PhD student at Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • Jakob Schönhuber

    Previous education: BSc in Economics (Vienna University of Economics, WU)

    Master's thesis: ““A Defence of Health-Related Quality of Life Measurement Against Hausman’s (2015) Critique”

    After graduation: MA in International Economics, Erasmus University 

  • Hidde Witteveen

    Previous education: BSc Economics and BA Philosophy (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

    Master's thesis: “Normative considerations about Integenerational Economic Mobility”

    After graduation: Policy advisor at Strategic Development department of the University of Delft 

  • Erica Yu 

    Previous education: BA Economics (Honors program) (Ateneo de Manila University)

    Master's thesis: “Let’s Keep it Democratic. Ensuring that ICT-based policy co-creation stays legitimate”

    After graduation: PhD student at Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  • 2019

  • Måns Abrahamson

    Previous education: BA in Practical Philosophy (Lund University), BSc in Business and Economics (majoring in Economics) (Lund University)

    Master's thesis: “Unsocial Credits of Social Credits: Motivation Crowding in China’s Prospective Social Credit System”

    After graduation: PhD student at Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  • Annalisa Costella

    Previous education: Bachelor's Degree in Economics (Bocconi University), Msc in Philosophy of the Social Sciences (London School of Economics)

    Master's thesis: “Fairness between Claims and Preferences”

    After graduation: PhD student at Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  • Carys Goodwin

    Previous education: BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (University of Exeter)

    Master's thesis: “Decolonizing Western Political Philosophy: The Veil of Ignorance as a Tool for Corrective Justice”

  • Jard van Heerde

    Previous education: Bachelor in Liberal Arts and Sciences, major in Economics and Law, minor in statistics (University College Utrecht), Bachelor in Dutch Law (Utrecht University)

    Master's thesis: “The Ownership of Land and its Taxation: an Extensive Analysis and a New Proposal”

  • Piet Jonker

    Previous education: 1973: Doctoral exam (MSc) in Economics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. 2014: BA in Philosophy at the Universiteit van Amsterdam

    Master's thesis: "The Epistemology of Speculation"

  • Annikka Lemmens

    Previous education: LLB in Dutch Law, BSc in Economics (major in International Economics), BA Philosophy, (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

    Master's thesis: “Pretend Submissions: A Methodological Analysis”

    After graduation: MSc Economics of Management and Organizations, Premaster Econometrics, Internship at CPB (Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis)

  • Vincent Schuttevaar

    Previous education: BSc Economics and Business Economics (Erasmus University Rotterdam), BA Philosophy of a Specific Discipline (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

    Master's thesis: “Can Mini-Publics Make Wise Decisions? Deliberative Democracy Meets Technocracy”

     

  • 2018

  • Manon Dillen

    Education: Bsc International Bachelor Economics and Business Economics, BA Philosophy of specific scientific field, Msc International Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam

    Master's thesis: "Time to (intra-)act: A diffractive reading of heterodox economics with Barad"

    After graduation: Editor, Vers Beton

  • Anne Albert van der Galiën 

    Education: Bsc Economics and Business Economics & Bsc Philosophy of a Science, Erasmus University Rotterdam

    Master's thesis: "Public policy as an art: Perspectives from complexity theory and uncertainty management"

    After graduation: App developer and philosopher

  • Lieke Martens

    Education: Propaedeutic year, management, economics and law at Avans univesity of applied sciences Breda & Bachelor philosophy at Tilburg university

    Master's thesis: "An Inquiry Into The Relationship Between Social Theory And Social Reality"

    After graduation: Adviseur, DSW Zorgverzekeraar

  • Lennart Ackermans

    Education: BSc in Mathematics at Leiden University (with double first year program Computer Science and Mathematics, minor in Political Philosophy), minor in Macroeconomics at the University of Amsterdam.

    Master's thesis: “The Nature of Money and Its Normative Consequences”

    After graduation: PhD student at Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  • Oyku Ulusoy

    Previous education: BA in Economics (Bogazici University); MA in International Relations (Bilgi University of Istanbul)

    Master's thesis: "Transformative experiences and how to live life to the fullest while keeping it rational"

    After graduation: PhD student at University of Bristol

  • 2017

  • Mario Alberto Castellano

    Previous education: BA in general philosophy at Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro, BA thesis in Ethics and Political Philosophy: Neoliberalism and Subjectivity: from entrepreneurship to debt  

    Master's thesis: "Is it possible to speak of 'corporate' moral responsibility?"

    After graduation: Consultant, Customer-contact, and Social media manager, MotorSistem

  • Emanuele Di Francesco

    Previous education: Bsc in Economics, Utrecht University

    Master's thesis: "An Inquiry Into the Behavioural Economics of Poverty"

    After graduation: Stichting Maatschappij en Onderneming (SMO)

  • Nicolás Berneman

    Previous education: BSc Economics (History minor), Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina; MA Epistemology & History of Science, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina

    Master's thesis: "Consensus in Economics: A Trade-off between Relevance and Reliability"

    After graduation: Lecturer at University of Buenos Aires

  • Zoe Evrard

    Previous education: PhD student at MaxPo, Max Planck and Sciences Po Center

    Master's thesis: What's Left of Politics?': An inquiry into the state of the social critique

    After graduation: PhD student at MaxPo, Max Planck and Sciences Po Center

  • 2016

  • Fabrizio Ciatti

    Previous education: BA Philosophy, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy

    Master's thesis: "The spell of the self-ownership thesis: an attempt to break it"

    After graduation: Master's in Economics at University of Nottingham

  • Sam van Dijck

    Previous education: BA Philosophy; BA History, Radboud University Nijmegen; Minor courses on Economics, Statistics, Morality and Psychology at Radboud University Nijmegen and Leiden University

    Master's thesis: "Corporate Tax Avoidance and Justice"

    After graduation: Researcher at SOMO (NGO/ Think Tank)

  • Willem van Dijk

    Previous education: BSc Economics, Tilburg University; Pre-master Philosophy, Tilburg University

    Master's thesis: "An Evaluation of Gigerenzer's Criticism on the Heuristics and Biases Program's Base-Rate Neglect Studies"

    After graduation: Interim Assitant-Director, OZSW Rotterdam

  • Tej Gonza

    Previous education: BA Economics at Faculty of Economics, University in Ljubljana, Slovenia; Exchange semester in Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), Poland

    Master's thesis: "From Paucity to Inefficiency: The Case of Democratic Governance"

    After graduation: Internship, Public Sector

  • Akshath Jitendranath

    Previous education: BSc Economics, Symbiosis International University, India

    Master's thesis: "Hard Choices"

    After graduation: PhD student at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  • Rui Maia

    Previous education: BA Economics, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil; Pre-Master Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, United Kingdom

    Master's thesis: "Reasoning with Theoretical Models"

    After graduation: PhD student at Bielefeld University

  • Felix den Ottolander

    Previous education: BSc Economics and Business Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

    Master's thesis: "Causal Mechanisms: A Potential Tool For Economic Policy?"

    After graduation: Intern at Autoriteit Financiele Markten

  • Carlos de Sousa

    Previous education: BSc Economics, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela; MSc Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, jointly awarded by Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

    Master's thesis: "Rothbard's gold obsession"

    After graduation: Consultant, CRU London

  • Victor van der Weerden

    Previous education: BA Philosophy, Wake Forest University, USA

    Master's thesis: "Financing difficulties in the Labor-Managed Firm"

    After graduation: Master's in Economics at Utrecht University

  • Virginia Ghiara

    Previous education: BSc Philosophy, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italia; MA Philosophy, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italia; High Qualification in Government and Human Sciences, Scuola di Studi Superiori Ferdinando Rossi, Italia

    Master's thesis: "Mind the gap: from data to big data in the economic domain"

    After graduation: PhD student at Kent University

     

  • 2015

  • Christiaan Broekman

    Previous education: BSc International Business Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Pre-Master Economics & Business, electives in Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam; (concurrent) MSc Economics & Business (Specialization International Economics), Erasmus University Rotterdam

    Master's thesis: "What we want from non-ideal theories of justice"

    After graduation: Intern at Global Alliance for Banking on Values

  • Huub Brouwer

    Previous education: BA Liberal Arts and Sciences, University College Utrecht; Exchange semester, Sciences Po Paris, France; MSc Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

    Master's thesis: "The asymmetry of desert reconsidered"

    After graduation: PhD student at Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  • Manuel Buitenhuis

    Previous education: BA Humanities & Social Science from University College Utrecht, University of Utrecht

    (concurrent) MSc in History & Philosophy of Science, University of Utrecht

    Master's thesis: "Non-uniform social discount rates in cost-benefit analysis"

    After graduation: Intern at Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid

  • Elina Vessonen

    Previous education: Bachelor of Social Sciences (Philosophy, Economics), University of Helsinki, Finland

    Exchange semester, University of Sydney, Australia

    Master's thesis: "The Carnapian approach to concept formation"

    After graduation: PhD student at University of Cambridge

  • Roel Visser

    Previous education: BSc Economics (Major) and European Governance (Minor), University of Utrecht; MA Politics, Philosophy & Economics, University of York, United Kingdom

    Master's thesis: "Using expert judgment to measure macroeconomic forecast uncertainty"

    After graduation: PhD student at Universität Bielefeld

  • Julia Rijssenbeek

    Previous education: BA Philosophy, University of Amsterdam
    Premaster Business, University of Amsterdam
    Master's thesis: "Beyond the objective risk notion in financial economics"

    After graduation: Research on behavior and culture change financial sector

  • 2014

  • Osman Caglar Dede

    Previous education: BA in Economics, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Master's thesis: "Preference Elicitation and the Normative Basis of Nudge Policies"

    After graduation: PhD student at Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  • James Grayot

    Previous education: BA, Philosophy (History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Language), Humboldt University, USA

    Master's thesis: "(Mis)understanding Adaptive Preferences: Where Description Begins and Implication Ends Concerning the 'Problem' of Adaptation"

    After graduation: PhD student at Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  • Nora Neuteboom

    Previous education: BSc Business and Economics, University of Amsterdam
    MSc Economics, Markets & Policy, Erasmus University Rotterdam

    Master's thesis: "The Metaphysics of Equality of Opportunity"

    After graduation: Internship at United Nations

  • 2013

  • Roebin Lijnis Huffenreuter

    Previous education: BA Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam (2008)

    Master's thesis: `The Economic Effects of Energy Efficiency' 

    After graduation: Researcher & Consultant Dutch Research Institute For Transitions (DRIFT), Erasmus University Rotterdam

  • Willem van der Deijl

    Previous education: BA Liberal arts and sciences (Economics, statistics and philosophy), Roosevelt Academy, Utrecht University (2011)

    Master's thesis: ʻData Mining: Vice or Virtue?'

    After graduation: PhD student at Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  • Darian Heim

    Previous education: BA in philosophy (major) and economics (minor) in Fribourg, Switzerland (2011), Exchange year at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM – 2010/11)

    Master's thesis: ʻHow much Trust can Economists Cope with? Why Oliver E. Williamson Distrusts the Concept of ʻTrust.ʼ

    After graduation: PhD student at Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

  • Vaios Koliofotis

    Master's thesis: ʻThree Concepts of Altruism: Proximate Patterns and
    Evolutionary Originsʼ

    After graduation: PhD student at Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  • Zoran Pantoulas

    Previous education: BA Economic and Regional Development Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences (Athens, Greece)

    Master's thesis: "An Inspection of Group Agency Theory"

    After graduation: Account Manager, Gresidence real estate Rotterdam

  • Philippe Verreault-Julien

    Previous education: BA Philosophy (Université Laval), Certificate Economics (Université Laval)

    Master's thesis: ʻUnderstanding the (Non)Explanatoriness of Economic Modelsʼ

    After graduation: PhD student at Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  • 2012

  • David Bassett

    Previous education: BSc Mathematics and Economics (University of Warwick)

    Master’s thesis: The pluralism of the Complexity Era: Individualism, Institutionalism and Holism in Complexity Economics (September, 2012)

    After graduation: Principal Consultant, Data2Decisions

  • Wiljan van den Berge

    Previous education: BSc Economics and Business Economics (EUR), BA Philosophy and Economics (EUR)

    Master’s thesis: Evolutionary foundations of rational choice theory (September, 2012)

    After graduation: Master's in Economics at Tilburg University

  • Hande Erkut

    Previous education: BA in Economics (Bilkent University)

    Master’s thesis: An Investigation on Behavioral Economics (August, 2012)

    After graduation: Postgraduate research student at Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, University of Nottingham

  • Hisashi Oki

    Previous education: BA in Economics (Waseda University)

    Master’s thesis: The Capability Approach and Development Policies (May, 2012)

    After graduation: MA in Political Philosophy, York University

  • Pedro Jose Llosa

    Previous education: MA in Latin American Literature (UNMSM), BA in Economics (Universidad. del Pacífico)

    Master’s thesis: Can individualised discrimination be better understood from the viewpoint of regocnition theories? A case study of Peruvian society (February, 2012)

    After graduation: Head of the Economics Department at Markham College in Lima, Perú

  • Lara Otonicar

    Previous education: MA Philosophy and Comparative Literature (University of Ljubljana, University College Utrecht)

    Master’s thesis: Ideology between Real and Ideal (August, 2012)

    After graduation: Post-graduate student at MIREES, University of Bologna

  • Johanna Thoma

    Previous education: BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics (University of Oxford)

    Master’s thesis: On the Robustness of Economic Models (June, 2012)

    After graduation: PhD student at University of Toronto

  • Melissa Vergara

    Previous education: BS Economics (Universidad de los Andes), Studies in Arts - Electronic Media (Universidad de los Andes)

    Master’s thesis: A defence of the economics profession after the crisis: a discussion on the use of models in economics (February, 2012)

    After graduation: PhD student at Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  • 2011

  • Rene Lazcano

    Previous education: MA courses in Political Philosophy (UNAM), BA Philosophy (UDLAP)

    Master’s thesis: Deliberating Capabilities: Capabilitarian Discourse Ethics (December, 2011)

    After graduation: PhD student at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)

  • J.W. Hengstmengel

    Previous education: MSc in Economics and Informatics, programme Computational Economics (EUR), BA in Philosophy of Economics (EUR), BA in Philosophy (EUR)

    Master’s thesis: The Role of Divine Providence in seventeenth-century economic thought (September, 2011)

    After graduation: PhD student at Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  • Deren Olgun

    Previous education: BA Economics (Girton College, Cambridge University)

    Master’s thesis: Economics and Intention (September, 2011)

    After graduation: PhD student at London School of Economics

  • Nick Skiadopoulos

    Previous education: MA in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (University of Athens), BA in Philology - Ancient Greek, Latin and Byzantine (University of Athens)

    Master’s thesis: Normative Choice and Instrumental Action (September, 2011)

  • Julia Köhn

    Previous education: BSc Business Administration and Economics (Universität Witen/Herdecke)

    Master’s thesis: A philosophical inquiry into the paradigms of modern financial economics (September, 2011)

    After graduation: PhD student at Witten/Herdecke University

  • 2010

  • Marco Sachy

    Previous education: BA Philosophy of Languages (Universitas Studiorum Mediolanensis)

    Master’s thesis: Re-thinking the nature of money for 21st century monetary economics: Complementary currencies for counteracting the systemic shortcomings of modern bank money (December, 2010)

    After graduation: PhD student at University of Leicester

  • Sine Bagatur

    Previous education:  MSc Economics (Middle East Technical University), BSc Economics (Middle East Technical University), Minor program in History of Philosophy

    Master's thesis: Are markets morally free zones? (November, 2010)

    After graduation: PhD student at Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  • François Claveau

    Previous education: MA Economics (McGill University), BA Political Science and Philosophy (Université de Montréal)

    Master’s thesis: Policy Conversation in Economics: A Critical Appraisal of the New Mainstream Approaches (August, 2010)

    After graduation: PhD student at Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  • 2009

  • Anil Divarci

    Previous education: MA Economics (Istanbul Technical University), BA International Relations (Istanbul University)

    Master's thesis: Bounded Rationality and Evolution (October, 2009)

    After graduation: PhD student at Antwerp Centre of Evolutionary Demography, University of Antwerp

  • C. Tyler DesRoches

    Previous education: MA Economics (University of Victoria), B.Comm. Honours Economics, minor in International Development Studies (Saint Mary’s University)

    Master's thesis: The World-view of Ecological Economics: Does Ontology matter for Economic Analysis? (June, 2009)

    After graduation: PhD student at the University of British Columbia

  • Attilia Ruzzene

    Previous education: BA and MA in International and Diplomatic Sciences (University of Torino), Msc in Economics (University of Torino)

    Master’s thesis: Causal knowledge in case-study research. A contextual analysis (March, 2009)

    After graduation: PhD student at Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  • Mary Robertson

    Previous education: BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics (Oxford)

    Master’s thesis: Rescuing Rhetoric from McCloskey: Why we need a Rhetoric of Economics but McCloskey goes too far

    After graduation: PhD student at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

  • Daniel Vargas

    Previous education: BA Economy (Universidad de los Andes), Minor in Political Philosophy (Universidad de los Andes)

    Master’s thesis: Producing Postmodern Economics (June, 2009)

    After graduation: PhD student at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Creative Planner and Strategist at Spotzer Media Group

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