Alumni Profiles

2021

2020

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 

2019

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

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

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

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)

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

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