Awards and Prizes
The Department of Economics has the following prizes, which are bestowed on MSc students each academic year.
Student Prizes
- Examiners' Prize for the best overall performance across the MSc in Economics, MSc Economics and International Financial Economics and MSc Behavioural and Economic Science (Economics Track)
- Examiners' Prize for the best exam performance across the MSc in Economics and MSc Economics and International Financial Economics
- Dissertation Prize for the best MSc dissertation
- Project Prize for the best MSc in Behavioural and Economic Science (Economics Track) project
- Shiv Nath Prize for the best MSc student performance in the field of Development Economics
Please note that the Department reserves the right not to award any of these prizes in any one year.
2022/2023 Prize Winners
Best overall performance:
Pei He
Best exam performance:
Niraj-Subhash Gandhi
Best dissertation (joint):
Sai Shreyas Krishna Kumar and Zoe Vlaeminck
Best project:
Jiachen He
Shiv Nath Prize in Development Economics:
Esa Azali Asyahid
2021/2022 Prize Winners
Best overall performance (joint):
Lucy Hampton & Chris Marshall
Best exam performance:
David Arnett
Best dissertation (joint):
Joel Mundy & Eleni Sandi
Best project:
Priya Bhatter
Shiv Nath Prize in Development Economics:
Prekshaa Bansal
2020/2021 Prize Winners
Best overall performance (joint):
Julia Wyjadlowska & Vikram Patil
Best exam performance:
Yuting Lu
Best dissertation (joint):
Josh Wong, Chau Pham, Marco Sarandrea & Sylvia Ma
Best project:
Ainhoa Arias
Shiv Nath Prize in Development Economics:
Fathur Fatkhurrohman
2019/2020 Prize Winners
Best overall performance (joint):
Michael Eldar & Alice Pearce
Best exam performance:
Yixuan Huang
Best dissertation (joint):
Xinyan Fang, Michael Eldar & Yusuf Sambo
Best project (joint):
Anush Sridhar & Zimo He
Shiv Nath Prize in Development Economics (joint):
Lynette Agius, Tanisha Ghosal & Soyra Gune
2018/2019 Prize Winners
Best overall performance:
Shannon Lim
Best exam performance (joint):
Shannon Lim, Qi He, Shihan Lin, & Yuwei Gu
Best dissertation:
James Yoon
Best project (joint):
Anthony Zhang & Qiaoxu Wu
Shiv Nath Prize in Development Economics:
Krishna Kejriwal
2017/2018 Prize Winners
Examiners' Prize (joint):
See Yu Chan, Jiahao Tang, Nathanial Sear and Yue Zhang
Dissertation Prize (joint):
Christopher Jagau & Nathanial Sear
Shiv Nath Prize in Development Economics (joint):
Trina Ghosh & Sampada KC
Behavioural and Economic Science Best Project (Economics Track):
Yan Tong Lim
2016/17 Prize Winners
Examiners’ Prize (joint)
Sam Carr
Francesco Gaudio
Dissertation Prize
Stuart Allen
Magnus Martinsen
Christopher Scott
Nayuta Shoji
Yifan Zhang
Shiv Nath Prize
Not awarded in 2016/2017