{"id":36887,"date":"2019-10-28T14:59:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T18:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=36887"},"modified":"2025-06-11T16:16:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T20:16:55","slug":"what-can-you-do-with-a-masters-degree-in-economics","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/event\/what-can-you-do-with-a-masters-degree-in-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"What Can You Do with a Master&#8217;s Degree in Economics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-36896\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/briana-brownell.jpg\" alt=\"Briana portrait outside with green trees\" class=\"wp-image-36896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/briana-brownell.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/briana-brownell-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Briana Brownell (M.A. Carleton, 2013) \u2013 Founder and CEO Pure Strategy Inc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-36898\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/scott-mcneil.jpg\" alt=\"Scott portrait white siding background\" class=\"wp-image-36898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/scott-mcneil.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/scott-mcneil-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Scott McNeil (M.A. Carleton, 2017) \u2013 Data Scientist, Shopify<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-36897\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/genevi\u00e8ve-vall\u00e9e.jpg\" alt=\"Genevi\u00e8ve portrait with dark grey background\" class=\"wp-image-36897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/genevi\u00e8ve-vall\u00e9e.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/genevi\u00e8ve-vall\u00e9e-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Genevi\u00e8ve Vall\u00e9e (M.A. Carleton, 2017) \u2013 Bank of Canada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Three recent Carleton economics graduates will make short presentations on who they are, how they got into the study of economics, how they got their first (and subsequent) jobs, and advice for graduating students, together with a brief discussion of possible future employment opportunities with their current employer and\/or more generally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pizza and soft-drink reception will be held first, followed by the presentations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organized by the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/\">Department of Economics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/economics\/undergraduate-studies\/cues\/\">Carleton Undergraduate Economics Society (CUES)<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/economics\/graduate-studies\/cges\/\">Carleton Graduate Economics Society (CGES)<\/a> with financial support from <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\">FPA<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/\">Economics<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Registration for this event has now closed.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-36887","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2019-11-28 18:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2019-11-28 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