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Biography

Zo Andriantomanga is an empirical macroeconomist with research interests in inflation dynamics, monetary policy, and time-series econometrics. His research examines how inflation processes have evolved following major global shocks, including the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and global supply chain disruptions. A central theme of his work is the degree of inflation synchronization across advanced, emerging, and low-income economies.

His research has been published in Macroeconomic Dynamics and Business Economics. His article in Business Economics received the 2025 National Association for Business Economics (NABE) Abramson Scroll Award, recognizing outstanding applied research with relevance for policy and business economists.

In 2023, he participated in the American Economic Association  Summer Economics Fellow Program , which allowed him to further develop his dissertation research in residence at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. In 2022, he worked as an intern at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where he assessed the macroeconomic impact of global supply chain disruptions in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Prior to his doctoral studies, he was one of three recipients of the Fulbright Scholarship from Madagascar, which enabled him to pursue graduate training in the United States. He received an M.A. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 2020. He holds a Master II in Macroeconomics and Public Economics (2017) and a B.A. in Economics and Management (2014), both from the  Université Catholique de Madagascar.

Education

• Ph.D. Economics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, (expected 2026)

• M.A. Economics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, 2020

• Master II in Macroeconomics and Public Economics, Université Catholique de Madagascar, 2017

• B.A. in Economics and Management, Université Catholique de Madagascar, 2014

Honors and Awards

• Abramson Scroll Award, Business Economics, National Association for Business Economics (NABE), 2025. Awarded for one of the most outstanding papers published in Business Economics (Oct. 2024–Jul. 2025).

• Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2023. The Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) award recognizes and supports the most academically excellent PhD students who have achieved dissertator status at UWM. 

• American Economic Association Summer Fellowship, 2023. Selected for PhD Dissertation internship at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

• J. Walter Elliot Award for Excellence in Macroeconomics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2021. Awarded for a High Pass in the Macroeconomics Preliminary Examination.

• Chancellor’s Graduate Awards in Economics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2020 and 2024. Awarded to graduate students in Economics. 

• Fulbright Scholarship, 2018-2020. Fully funded scholarship to pursue a Master's degree at a US university (among one of three recipients).