Short Bio

I am the Chair of the Department of Finance, Economics, and Decision Sciences & an Associate Professor of Finance and Economics in the School of Business and Economics at Algoma University. I am a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO),  a member of the International Migration Research Centre (IMRC), a visiting researcher at Wilfrid Laurier University,  Adjunct Faculty at Thompson Rivers University, a research associate of the NORDIK Institute, and Guest Editor, Journal of Risk and Financial Management. In the past, I was an academic at the University of Bath, University of Nottingham, University of Birmingham, and Multimedia University, among others. I received my Ph.D. (International Economics), supervised by Professor Anindya Banerjee (a well-known econometrician), and MSc (Development Economics) from the Department of Economics, University of Birmingham, UK. My research interests include labor migration, international economics, international business, international finance, institutional economics, environmental policy, and applied econometrics. I am currently working on the Northern Ontario Labour Market & Migration, Northern Ontario Tourism Development, and Analysis of the Sault Trade Area. I published in the European Journal of Political Economy, The World Economy, Applied Economics, International Review of Economics and Finance , IZA Journal of Development and Migration, Journal of Clnear Production, Tourism Economics,  and Marketing Intelligence and Planning , among other journals. My research projects were funded by government bodies including the SSHRC Insight Development Grant, Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC), SSHRC Institutional Grants, Mitacs Globallink Research Internship (GRI) program, Canada; the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme , Ministry of Education, Malaysia;  and the Overseas Research Students Award Scheme, UK.  My research projects were also funded by Ryerson University (Canada), Algoma University (Canada), University of Birmingham (UK), and Multimedia University (Malaysia). I worked as a principal consultant for an iDE project funded by the Department for International Development (DFID), UK; and the Australian Aid (AusAid).