USF Economics Faculty
The Economic Programs at USF has some of the top Economists in the field!
Teaching on important topics such as women in development, agricultural economics, big data analytics, economic consequences of networked markets, international finance, political economy, authoritarian governance, behavioral economics, labor economics, and energy economics to name a few. Below you can learn more about some of our incredible faculty:
Full-Time Faculty
Jesse Anttila-Hughes is an Associate Professor and the current Chair of Economics at the University of San Francisco. His research combines physical…
Alessandra Cassar is a professor of economics at the University of San Francisco. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Economic Science…
Dr. Chakraborty received her PhD at the University of Minnesota. Her areas of specialization include: applied macroeconomics, international…
Andrew Hobbs studies how droughts, floods, and other disasters affect people, and develops tools to reduce the impact of climate change on farmers.…
Michael Jonas is from the University of California, Davis. His concentration area of specialization is monetary economics. He completed his doctorate…
Dr. Elizabeth Katz is a development economist with thirty years of experience conducting research on the intersection of gender and agricultural…
Professor Khachiyan studies the populations most exposed to aggregate industrial transitions, such as climate adaptation and automation. He uses data…
Robizon Khubulashvili's research is at the intersection of theoretical, behavioral, and experimental microeconomics. A common question in his…
Professor Lorentzen specializes in the economics of information, incentives, and institutions. He received his PhD in Economic Analysis and Policy…
Areas of research specialization are in the use of econometric, experimental, and quasi-experimental tools to study the impact of development…
Adjunct Faculty
Evan is a Senior Manager of Product Innovation at Netflix for Growth and Messaging Algorithms. He leads the development of machine learning…
Lawrence De Geest is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Suffolk University and a Senior Data Scientist at Lyft. Professor De Geest’s academic…
Jean Driscoll has an MBA from Columbia University and a BA in economics from the University of Massachusetts. She teaches at the University of San…
Sandhya Patlolla has a PhD from University of California, Davis. Her research specialization is in the areas of economic development, agricultural…
Konrad Edward Ian Posch studies comparative political economy and regulatory politics with a particular focus on the politics of technology and…
Zuriel Sanders is a data and policy analyst and economics instructor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He holds a Master of Science in Data…
Nihar Shah is a Chief Economist at the DoubleZero Foundation, where he currently works on questions at the intersection of cryptocurrency and…
Timothy Tung was born and raised in Los Alamos, New Mexico. His interest in working with and fostering first-generation students stems from multiple…
Summer Wang is a Senior Data Scientist at Netflix for Growth where she works on causal effect estimation to innovate and evaluate product features to…
Emeriti Faculty
Hartmut Fischer received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Fischer has a number of areas of specialization: international…
Prof. Lehmann obtained his PhD from Cornell University and taught at the University of San Francisco in traditional and on-line venues. He is the…
Charles N'cho-Oguie (N'cho) is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of San Francisco (USF), where he taught macroeconomics, econometrics…
John Veitch, Professor of Finance, and Director of the M.S. in Financial Analysis program, is an esteemed faculty member with over two decades of…
Visiting Faculty
Professor Beauregard is an experimental economist who investigates how non-monetary aspects of work, such as meaning, stigma, and signaling, shape…