Oana Diaconu, Ph.D.
CVS Health; Executive Director, Data Science, Customer Experience and Call Servicing
Lisa Emsbo-Mattingly, M.A.
Fidelity; Director of Research, Global Asset Allocation
Jose Fillat, Ph.D.
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Senior Economist and Policy Advisor
Paul Garvey, Ph.D.
MITRE; Chief Scientist, Center for Acquisition and Management Science
Stephen Lawrence, Ph.D.
Vanguard; Head of Investment Management Fintech Data Science
Fr. Richard McGowan, D.B.A.
Jesuit East Coast Province; Treasurer / Boston College, Faculty
Karen Muncaster, Ph.D.
Boston College; Dean of the Woods College of Advancing Studies
Nurtekin Savas, M.S., M.B.A.
Capital One; Head of Machine Learning & Data Science (Enterprise Products + Platforms)
Aleksander (Sasha) Tomic
MSAA Program Director
Associate Dean, Strategy, Innovation, & Technology
Program Director, Master of Science in Applied Economics
Dr. Aleksandar (Sasha) Tomic is Associate Dean for Strategy, Innovation, & Technology, and Program Director of Master of Science in Applied Economics at the Boston College’s Woods College of Advancing Studies. He also holds appointments as Associate Professor of Practice in Economics department of Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences and Operations Management Department of Carroll School of Management. In addition to managing the MS in Applied Economics, Dr. Tomic leads strategic initiatives at the College, especially in areas of online education. Prior to joining BC, Dr. Tomic was Associate Professor at Mercer University, Professor at the Jack Welch Management Institute in Herndon, Virginia; Principal in Econometrics with HENDYPLAN, S.A. in Luxembourg; Associate Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate Programs in Business at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia; and Assistant Professor of Economics and co-founder and Director of the Center for Economic Analysis at Macon State College in Macon, Georgia.
In his career, Dr. Tomic has developed, grown, and turned around academic and research programs. He has written scholarly papers published in international journals and refereed books addressing topics such as EMU, behavior of political agents, racial disparities in policing and sentencing, and impact of college athletics on universities reputation. He is a frequent lecturer and commentator on economic issues at local/regional/national/international level.
In addition to his academic endeavors, Dr. Tomic has managed and participated in Eurostat-sponsored, complex, multi-year, multinational projects in economic statistics, business cycle forecasting, and macroeconometrics. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Applied Economics from Clemson University.