Graduates of the Program

• Jacqueline Vanderpuye-Orgle is currently enrolled as a Ph.D. student with a full fellowship in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Cornell University. She is planning to do dissertation research in West Africa. She was a pioneer participant in the Pre-doctoral Program in Economics for Graduates of African Universities at Yale. She studied at Yale during the 1999-2000 academic year. At Yale, she took graduate and undergraduate courses in Economics, Mathematics and French. To Jacqueline, the most important benefits of her year at Yale were: the improvement in her background in mathematics, the usefulness of letters of recommendation from Yale faculty for her applications to Ph.D. programs, and her ability to arrange a summer internship at the World Bank. Before coming to Yale, she graduated with a First Class Honors B.Sc. Degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Ghana, Legon. She had superb recommendations from her instructors at Legon and quantitative GRE scores above the ninetieth percentile.
• Oghenovo Obrimah is currently enrolled as a Ph.D. student with a full fellowship in the Department of Finance at the University of Maryland. He was also a pioneer participant in the Pre-doctoral Program in Economics for Graduates of African Universities at Yale. He studied at Yale during the 1999-2000 academic year. At Yale, he took graduate and undergraduate courses in Economics, Finance and Statistics. For Oghenovo, the primary benefit of his year at Yale was the opportunity to take a variety of courses in economics, because his prior academic training was in mathematics. Before coming to Yale, he graduated with a First Class Honors B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Ibadan. He had excellent recommendations from his instructors and a supervisor and quantitative GRE scores above the eighty-fifth percentile. After graduating from Ibadan, he worked as a banker and consultant for an international consulting firm and a prominent merchant bank in Nigeria.
• Ruth Uwaifo is currently enrolled as a Ph.D. student with a full fellowship in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. She studied at Yale during the 2000-2001 academic year. At Yale, she took xxxx. Before coming to Yale, she graduated with a First Class Honors Degree in Economics from the University of Ibadan.