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2024-2025

National Champions

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The University of Notre Dame

Jack Knorr, John O’Neill, Henry Mussig, Taemin Yoon, Max Sombong, Samuel Robinson
Advisor: Forrest Spence, Ph.D.

2024-2025 Finalists

1st Runner Up: Minvera University

Atai Bekboev, Fabian Steinmetz, Nika Gudelj, Arina Alibayeva, Ana Soporean
Advisor: Ty Robbins, Ph.D.

2nd Runner Up: Muskingum University

Zachary Martin, Brock Pfister, Jillian Laposky, Asa Saxton, James Salchli, Riley Tuel
Advisor: Arjun Sondhi, Ph.D.

Runner-up: UCLA

Luis Muñoz Iovane, Andrew Urner, John Tacuchi, Ronojoy Borpujari, Adam Grossman, Nirvaan Singla
Advisor: Chris Surro, Ph.D.

Runner-up: Pace University

Kristina Krichmaryov, Angel Uzhca, Fatima Abba, William Winn, Victor Soulan
Advisor: Sam Baruch, Ph.D.

Runner-up: University of Austin

Alistair Haglund, Kyle Choy

Universities that Submitted to the 2024-2025 First-Round

Bridge Valley Community & Technical College	City College of San Francisco
Holy Cross College	Minerva University*
Mount Holyoke College	Muskingum University*
Nassau Community College	Northeastern University
Northwestern University	Pace University*
University of Austin*	University of California, Los Angeles*
University of California, Riverside	University of Chicago
University of Maryland, Baltimore County	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
University of North Carolina, Wilmington	University of Notre Dame*
University of Wisconsin–Madison

*Finalist

2022-2023

National Champions	Temple University
	Akash Banerjee, Zachary Somogyi, Karina McKenna, Matt Drayton, Michael Leeds, Ph.D (advisor)

1st Runner Up: University of Notre Dame	2nd Runner Up: Northeastern University
Jake Anthony, Hannah Edwards, Nolan Fletes, Katherine Huang, Suzette Kannala, Forrest Spence, Ph.D. (advisor)	Aleksei Shilov, Ivan Blinov, Robert Squires, Margaret Jensen Olivia Parsons, Vedant Mundhra, Mark Hooker, Ph.D (advisor)

Runner-up: University of Wisconsin-Madison	Runner-up: Independent [University of Notre Dame, University of Chicago]
Charles Zumbrennen, Lily Hamacher, Johnathan Tong, Tapasya Nangpal, Ethan Park, Zachary Heintz, Elizabeth Foste, Ph.D (adivsor)	Suzanne Sokolowski, Matthew Amante, Katie Compton, Rohan Jaipuria, Jack Knorr, Michael Schlueter, Jason Reed, Ph.D (advisor)
Runner-up: University of Chicago
Spencer Dalton, Avik Garg, Alex Gordon, Grace Hwang, Sam Hwang, Jack Jacobs, Kuevibulvanich Kanit, Ph.D (advisor)

2022-2023

National Champions	University of Notre Dame
	Jake Anthony, Martha Byrne, Nolan Fletes, Katherine Huang, Chris Mulligan

2nd Place: Princeton University	3rd Place: Northeastern University
Sydney Pargman, Bracklinn Williams, Lauren Fahlberg, Sydney Eck, Shirley Ren, Daniel Rodriguez	Sawyer Dixon, Robert Squires, Oona Foulser, Aleksei Shilov, Christopher Flynn, Ivan Blinov

Runner-up: University of Wisconsin-Madison	Runner-up: Independent [University of Notre Dame, St. Mary’s College, Holy Cross College]
Ethan Yang, Ethan Park, Aarush Jain, Atharv Padmalayan, Tapasya Nangpal, Amitabha Shatdal, Harmon Bhasin (advisor)	Hannah Edwards, Riley Russo, Matthew Williams, Will Segale, Sarah MacLachlan
Runner-up: Independent [Wheeling University, Southeastern Louisiana University, University of Maryland-Baltimore County]
Arun Dahal Khatri, Adwit Lamichhane, Pratyush Devkota, Anjali Thapa, Subin Bista

2021-2022

National Champions	Northeastern University
	Thomas Dillon, Oona Foulser, Sawyer Dixon, Peter Ballaro, Jan Berend, Aleksei Shilov

2nd Place: University of Notre Dame	3rd Place: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Josie Donlon, Emma Gran, Patrick Hogan, Michael McElroy, Brigid Meisenbacher, Forrest Spence (advisor), and Jason Reed (advisor)	Zach Heintz, Richard Shi, Ethan Yang, Sahana Prasad, Harmon Bhasin, Prahhwal Gandharv, Josh Gonzalez (advisor)

Runner-up: University of North Carolina-Wilmington	Runner-up: American University
Allison Browning, Scarlett Garrison, Adam Ragan, Danny Sierra, Daniel Soques (advisor)	Zachary Roten, Caleb Regen, Philip Holmes
Runner-up: Muskingum University
Jacob Untied, Antonia Snider, Jake Loudon, Caleb Barnette, Arjun Sondhi (Advisor)

2020-2021

National Champions

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University of Notre Dame

Josie Donlon, Michael Flegel, Emma Gran, Bridget Stockrahm, Stephen Vukovits, Forrest Spence (advisor), and Jason Reed (advisor)

2020-2021 Finalists

2nd place: University of Notre Dame

David Henry, Elise Jones, Mitchell Larson, Michael McElroy, Brigid Meisenbacher, Forrest Spence (advisor), and Jason Reed (advisor)

3rd place tie: Pace University

Carlton Allison, Brandon Diaz, Sarina Howe, Isabelle Labianco, Bujana Mulosmani, Lindsay Varzarevsky, Mark Weinstock (advisor)

3rd place tie: University of Notre Dame

Christian Coletta, Peter Emanuelli, Luis Elizondo Gracia, Mahati Kalaparthy, Spencer Koehl, Anabel Martinez, Forrest Spence (advisor), and Jason Reed (advisor)

2019-2020

National Champions

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University of Notre Dame

Christian Coletta, Luis Elizondo, Peter Emanuelli, Mahati Kalaparthy, Spencer Koehl, Anabel Martinez, Forrest Spence (advisor)

2019-2020 Finalists

2nd place: Pace University

Carlton Allison, Luke Artola, Brandon Diaz, Marc Gosine, Brooke Jefferds, Mark Weinstock (advisor)

3rd place: Montana State University

Brian Jaggers, Corrina Kitchen, Kathy Tran, Anja Wookey-Huffman, Gregory Gilpin (advisor)

Multiple Colleges:

Jiayi Chen (Grinnell College)

Zeyu Chen (University of Pennsylvania)

Kexin Feng (William & Mary College)

2018-2019

National Champions

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Stanford University

Usman Hanif, Samaksh Goyal, Sikata Sengupta, Teja Veeramacheneni, Bill Bergman from Truth in Accounting (advisor)

2018-2019 Finalists

Runner Up: University of Notre Dame

Laurence Cardonna, John Desler, Mitchell Larson, Michael McElroy, Emily Merola, Thomas Pero, Jason Reed (advisor)

Runner Up: University of Chicago

Alena Kang-Landsberg, Esteban Mendoza, Andrew Pyper, Ruilin Yang, Christopher Zhao

Runner Up: Pace University

Luke S. Artola, Joseph A. Drennan, Mark R. Gallo, Brooke Jefferds, Christian L. Morris, Mark L. Weinstock (advisor)

2016-2017

National Champions

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University of Notre Dame

Adam Kulam, Cole Folwell, Grace Campanile, Emily Merola, Michael Dang, Jason Zinn, Jason Reed (advisor), Forrest Spence (advisor)

2016-2017 Finalists

Runner Up: Harvard University

Samuel Huang, Amy Zhao, Christopher Cruz

Runner Up: Northeastern University

Elizabeth Platonova, Erin Thornton, Andre Kirunda, Garry Canepa, Paul Molander, Christopher Roughan

2017-2018

National Champions

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University of Notre Dame

Emily Merola, Grace Campanile, Mitchell Larson, Stephen Vukovits, Jason Reed (advisor), Forrest Spence (advisor)

2017-2018 Finalists

Runner Up: University of Notre Dame

Adam Kulam, Thomas Pero, Anne Marie Bryson, Michael Stanford, Laurence Caradonna, Jason Reed (advisor)

Runner Up: University of North Carolina at Wilmington

David Jackson, Caleb Kuhne, Cole Langlois, Alex Papalazaros, Grant Poulson, Danny Soques (advisor)

Runner Up: Northeastern University

Paul Molander, Andre Kirunda, Kabir Dugal, Mitch Bowman, Skye Nygaard

2015-2016

National Champions

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Harvard University

Eric Yang, Lukas Althoff, Jessica Li, Kavi Patel, Richard He

2015-2016 Finalists

Runner Up: University of Tübingen

Lukas Heinzmann, Laura Baiker, Georg Thunecke

Runner Up: Northeastern University

Alexander Arnst, Daniel Miller, Jeyshri Sundaram, Michael Mani, Michael Spoleti, Matthew Famiglietti

2015-2016 Honorable Mentions

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Yu Jung Han, Jialing Jiang, Justin Cole

Northwestern University

Yujiao Guo, Jingqi Chen

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dean Murphy, Tyler Tirpak, Mijal Bucay, Dashiell Mace, Jesse Meredith

2013-2014

National Champions

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2014-2015

National Champions

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Clemson University

Dylan Bargar, Jason Marshall, Kaitlin Matheson, Rebecca Moore, Darby Voisin

2014-2015 Finalists

Runner Up: Team 105

Mijal Bucay, Thatchinamoorthy Krshnan, Woo Sheng Ong

Runner Up: Team 109

Dylan Bargar, Jason Marshall, Kaitlin Matheson, Rebecca Moore, Darby Voisin

Runner Up: Team 110

Dashiell Mace, Dean Murphy

Runner Up: Team 111

Jessica Jiang, Ben Zhao, James Zhu

Previous Finals Presentation Videos Available on YouTube

Four Notre Dame students present their fiscal policy plan.

Team 681 Presents

Team 425 Presents

Team 799 Presents

Team 425 Presents

Team 471 Presents

Team 425 Presents

Team 807 Presents

Team 119 Presents

Team 119 Presesnts

Team 119 Presents

Team 471 Presents

Team 119 Presents

Team 681 Presents

Students hangout

Jeff Holland of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation

Chris Towner

Bob Bixby

Doug Holtz-Eakin

Bhairavi Jayaraman, Erica Patella, and Lisa Henning

Photo by Sam Kittner/ kittner.com

Team 799 – Notre Dame, St. Mary’s College, Holy Cross College

Team 425 – Wheeling University, Southeastern Louisiana University, University of Maryland-Baltimore County

Team 119 – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Team 681 – Notre Dame, 2023 National Champions

Team 471 – Princeton University, Second Runner Up

Team 807 – Northeastern University, First Runner Up

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PAST PARTICIPANTS

These are the Fiscal Changemakers

2024-2025

National Champions

The University of Notre Dame

1st Runner Up: Minvera University

2nd Runner Up: Muskingum University

Runner-up: UCLA

Runner-up: Pace University

Runner-up: University of Austin

Universities that Submitted to the 2024-2025 First-Round

*Finalist

National Champions

Temple University

1st Runner Up: University of Notre Dame

2nd Runner Up: Northeastern University

Runner-up: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Runner-up: Independent [University of Notre Dame, University of Chicago]

Runner-up: University of Chicago

National Champions

University of Notre Dame

2nd Place: Princeton University

3rd Place: Northeastern University

Runner-up: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Runner-up: Independent [University of Notre Dame, St. Mary’s College, Holy Cross College]

Runner-up: Independent [Wheeling University, Southeastern Louisiana University, University of Maryland-Baltimore County]

National Champions

Northeastern University

2nd Place: University of Notre Dame

3rd Place: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Runner-up: University of North Carolina-Wilmington

Runner-up: American University

Runner-up: Muskingum University

2020-2021

National Champions

University of Notre Dame

2nd place: University of Notre Dame

3rd place tie: Pace University

3rd place tie: University of Notre Dame

2019-2020

National Champions

University of Notre Dame

2nd place: Pace University

3rd place: Montana State University

Multiple Colleges:

2018-2019

National Champions

Stanford University

Runner Up: University of Notre Dame

Runner Up: University of Chicago

Runner Up: Pace University

2016-2017

National Champions

University of Notre Dame

Runner Up: Harvard University

Runner Up: Northeastern University

2017-2018

National Champions

University of Notre Dame

Runner Up: University of Notre Dame

Runner Up: University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Runner Up: Northeastern University

2015-2016

National Champions

Harvard University

Runner Up: University of Tübingen

Runner Up: Northeastern University

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Northwestern University

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2013-2014

National Champions

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2014-2015

National Champions

Clemson University

Runner Up: Team 105

Runner Up: Team 109

Runner Up: Team 110

Runner Up: Team 111