Careers

Jobs in Economics! The main benefit of the MAE program is that upon graduation you can get a well-paying and interesting professional position as an analyst, consultant, and/or economist. See below for more details.

CERGE-EI Graduation Ceremony

CERGE-EI MA graduates hold top positions in global corporations and organizations.

Go to Alumni Profiles for an overview of our graduates.

We provide full support for graduating students in searching for a job and preparing for the application/interview procedure.

MAE graduates will be needed in the private sector, the public sector, and international/nonprofit organizations. Here are some of the positions and types of institutions that an MAE graduate could look forward to after graduation:

Positions

Analyst: Financial, Policy, Management, Legislative, Credit, Budget, Investment
Management Consultant
Research Associate/Director
City Planner
Financial Planner
Central Bank Economist
Strategist
Financial Director/Manager
Treasury Specialist
Senior Manager
Teacher/Professor
Economic Researcher
Government Staff Economist

Institutions

Companies and Corporations in various industries
Think tanks
World Bank
International Monetary Fund
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
Industrial associations
Trade associations
Governmental committees

CERGE-EI has a long tradition of quickly improving students’ qualifications so they can gain a higher-level career position in a short period of time.

MAE Alumni Advisory Board

Meet the CERGE-EI Alumni Advisory Board. This group of successful professionals advises the MAE program on various important program decisions and ensures the quality of the program. They also serve as excellent examples of the kinds of careers that MAE alumni can expect to have after graduation.

Board members include Richard Podpiera, Tomas Kadlec, Anna Ratcheva, Martina Lubyova, Alexei Kapkin, and Olga Cook.

Profiles

Olga Cook (née Borissova) (MA 2006)

Olga Cook currently works as a Business Development Specialist & Business Analyst at SAP in Prague, an international business software corporation. She previously worked as a Senior eBusiness Analyst at Monster Worldwide, a global recruiting group. She was initially admitted at CERGE-EI in 2003, specializing in advanced Macroeconomics theory and financial markets. Her previous academic work was done at the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research.

Martina Lubyová (PhD 2002)

Martina Lubyová is currently Member of the Scientific Council and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Forecasting at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. After completing her PhD at CERGE-EI in 2002, she worked at the International Labor Organization (ILO) as an Employment Development Specialist in the ILO's Sub-regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia in Moscow, Russia. In 2008 she was appointed Director of that office. Wishing to return to more academic research, in summer 2010 she took a position in her native Slovakia at the Institute of Forecasting at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on labor markets in CEE/CIS countries along with issues of regional migration, human capital development, poverty reduction and informal economies.

In her short time back in the research sector, she has published "Foreign migration and its regional dimensions in Slovakia following EU accession", co-authored with Edita Nemcová in Prognostické práce (2010). In 2009 she authored an ILO working paper titled "Labour market institutions and policies in the CIS: Post-Transition Outcomes". Before that she contributed to the OECD's chapter on the Slovak Republic in "An International Migration Outlook: Annual Report 2006" and a similar report in 2004.

Anna Racheva-Sarabian (PhD 2007)

Anna Racheva-Sarabian is a Vice President at Fieldman, Rolapp & Associates, a financial advisory firm located in Orange County, California, which she joined in 2003, nearly four years before formally defending her dissertation entitled "Essays on the Default of California Non-Rated Land Secured Bonds". Before joining the firm, she served as an investment banking analyst at CommerzBank in Prague and a teaching assistant in Corporate Finance at the University of California-Riverside, from where she earned her Master of Business Administration (concentration in Finance). She holds the CIPFA designation as a Certified Independent Public Finance Advisor from the National Association of Independent Public Finance Advisors (NAIPFA).