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\n\t\tSocial Media and Networking\n\t<\/h1>\n

\n\t\t\n\t\tNetworking Resources for Williams and the CDE\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h2>\n\t

Make an EphLink account:<\/a><\/h3>\n

EphLink is a new Williams-sponsored networking setup for mentoring between alumni and with current students.<\/p>\n

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CDE Alumni Networking Resources<\/a>:<\/h3>\n

Check out the links on the CDE website, including accessing the alumni directory<\/a> and subscribing to the Williams monthly alumni newsletter, Ephnotes<\/a> (email the administrator to subscribe if you aren’t already on the list)<\/p>\n

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The CDE and Williams on Facebook:<\/h3>\n

Join the CDE alumni group for your class year. Email Rachel (rlouis), Tom (tpowers) or Karima (keb1) if you can’t find the group (all emails at williams dot edu). Most class-year groups are private.<\/p>\n

Join the Williams CDE Alumni Group.<\/a><\/p>\n

Follow the Williams College CDE Facebook page<\/a> to see updates and pictures.<\/p>\n

Follow the Williams College page on Facebook<\/a> to see what’s happening at the school.<\/p>\n

Follow the Williams College Economics page<\/a> on Facebook. The Economics Department runs this page, and occasionally posts career opportunities of the sort undergraduates or recent graduates might find interesting, like research assistantships.<\/p>\n

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Twitter:<\/h3>\n

Williams Economics<\/a><\/p>\n

Williams Professors on Twitter:<\/h4>\n

Sarah Jacobson<\/a><\/p>\n

Tara Watson<\/a><\/p>\n

Lucie Schmidt<\/a><\/p>\n

A Few Other Williams Twitterers:<\/h4>\n

The Williams Record<\/a>, the Williams College student newspaper<\/p>\n

Tweeting Economists Who Have Been to Williams:<\/h3>\n

These folks have been on campus mostly for development-related seminars, Development Dialogues with the CDE, or other similar events. If you were to meet them in an elevator somewhere, you could probably commiserate with them about the cold:<\/p>\n\t\t\t2019\n\t\t

Owen Zidar<\/a><\/p>\n

Martina Jasova<\/a><\/p>\n

Lee Badgett<\/a><\/p>\n

Vanessa Kerry<\/a><\/p>\n

Sandile Hlatshwayo<\/a><\/p>\n

Treb Allen<\/a><\/p>\n

Mike Luca<\/a><\/p>\n

Chris Barrett<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaveh Majlesi<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t2018\n\t\t

Mary Hallward-Driemeier<\/a><\/p>\n

Marianne Bitler<\/a><\/p>\n

Ben Ho<\/a><\/p>\n

David McKenzie<\/a><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Cascio<\/a><\/p>\n

Branko Milanovic<\/a><\/p>\n

Melinda Petre<\/a><\/p>\n

Hamza Farrukh<\/a> (Williams grad)<\/p>\n\t\t\t2017\n\t\t

Caitlyn Knowles Myers<\/a><\/p>\n

Trevon Logan<\/a><\/p>\n

Bill Cohan<\/a><\/p>\n

Rajeev Dehejia<\/a><\/p>\n

Scott GehlBach<\/a><\/p>\n

Fiona Burlig<\/a> (a Williams alum)<\/p>\n

Petra Moser<\/a><\/p>\n

Robert Stavins<\/a><\/p>\n

Jim Berry<\/a><\/p>\n

Nina Pavcnik<\/a><\/p>\n

Bradley Hardy<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t2016\n\t\t

Jennifer Doleac<\/a><\/p>\n

Tatiana Homonoff<\/a><\/p>\n

Erik Kimbrough<\/a><\/p>\n

Kate Ambler<\/a><\/p>\n

Andy Powell<\/a><\/p>\n

Asim Khwaja<\/a><\/p>\n

Ethan Lewis<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t2015\n\t\t

Karen Dynan<\/a><\/p>\n

Ben Golub<\/a><\/p>\n

Nemat Bizhan<\/a><\/p>\n

Sue Dynarski<\/a><\/p>\n

Mead Over<\/a><\/p>\n

Phil Levine<\/a><\/p>\n

Tavneet Suri<\/a><\/p>\n

Brian Levy<\/a><\/p>\n

Ina Ganguli<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t2014\n\t\t

Dina Pomeranz<\/a><\/p>\n

Eduardo Lora<\/a><\/p>\n

Leah Boustan<\/a><\/p>\n

David Evans<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t2012\n\t\t

Nancy Birdsall<\/a><\/p>\n

Paul Niehaus<\/a><\/p>\n

Nathan Nunn<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t2011\n\t\t

Ragan Petrie<\/a><\/p>\n

Patrick Honohan<\/a><\/p>\n

Dietz Vollrath<\/a><\/p>\n

Dean Yang<\/a><\/p>\n

Biju Rao<\/a><\/p>\n

David Wilcox<\/a><\/p>\n

Larry Summers<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\tWho We Follow on Social Media\n\t<\/h2>\n\t

On Twitter:<\/h3>\n

Policy Groups and Think Tanks:<\/h4>\n

VoxDev :<\/a> a group that aims to bridge the gap between the latest and best in development research and policy-making on the ground<\/p>\n

The Center for Global Development<\/a> :<\/p>\n

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)<\/a><\/p>\n

The International Growth Centre:<\/a> “demand-led policy research”<\/p>\n

Non-Williams Economists Whose Work You May Have Read for Class:<\/h4>\n

Ben Bernanke<\/a>, former Chair of the Federal Reserve, now at Brookings<\/p>\n

Chris Blattman<\/a>, an economist who works on crime, poverty, and conflict<\/p>\n

Angus Deaton<\/a>, 2015 Nobel Prizewinner for work on poverty, consumption and welfare<\/p>\n

Seema Jayachandran<\/a>, a strong voice on health and gender, especially in Africa and South Asia<\/p>\n

Paul Krugman<\/a>, 2008 Nobel Prizewinner who now writes a column on the New York Times<\/p>\n

Christine LaGarde<\/a>, former head of the IMF, now at the European Central Bank<\/p>\n

Edward Miguel<\/a>, one of the primary development economists of our day working on Africa<\/p>\n

Mushfiq Mobarak<\/a>, a leader in the generation of development economists asking about the role of the environment in development<\/p>\n

Martin Ravallion<\/a>, one of the foremost development economists and the man who came up with the dollar-a-day poverty line<\/p>\n

Dani Rodrik<\/a>, you’ve probably read something by him on globalization.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Sachs<\/a>, perhaps best known for his work on poverty traps<\/p>\n

Joseph Stiglitz<\/a>, 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, macroeconomics, trade, globalization, climate, you name it.<\/p>\n

Tavneet Suri<\/a>, currently working on the effects of technology on poverty.<\/p>\n

Christopher Udry<\/a>, one of the big names in research in African development these days, especially as regards agriculture in rural, sub-Saharan Africa<\/p>\n

Miguel Urquiola<\/a>, one of the leading economists on education<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\n\t\tAlumni on Twitter (coming soon)\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h2>\n\t

Follow fellow CDE alumni on Twitter and see what we’re all up to in the world<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\n\t\tBlogs We Follow (coming soon)\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h2>\n\t

See what blogs we have in our browser bookmarks<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\n\t\tOther Networking Resources (coming soon)\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h3>\n\t

Let us know if there are other networking resources you’d like to see up here!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGo to the Williamstown Newsdesk\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tView our CDE course resources\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Social Media and Networking Networking Resources for Williams and the CDE Make an EphLink account: EphLink is a new Williams-sponsored networking setup for mentoring between alumni and with current students.   CDE Alumni Networking Resources: Check out the links on the CDE website, including accessing the alumni directory and subscribing to the Williams monthly alumni…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2197,"featured_media":0,"parent":1922,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2249","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4703,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2249\/revisions\/4703"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}