Department of Economics
Hagey Hall building, room 213
Tel 519 888-4567
x33567 (Undergraduate Program Inquiries)
x36556 (Graduate Program Inquiries)
Margaret Insley
margaret.insley@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x32209
Office: HH 127
Personal website
BA (Calgary); MA (Alberta); PhD (Guelph)
Areas of specialization: Natural resource and environmental economics; Investment under uncertainty -- real options
Anindya Sen
519-888-4567 x32123
Office: EC5 1003
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
BA (Delhi); MA (Concordia); PhD (Toronto)
Recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award
Areas of specialization: Pricing and firm strategy in imperfectly competitive markets such as retail gasoline; Deregulation of retail alcohol and marijuana; Smoking and cigarette taxes; Poverty and the minimum wage; Government policy in electricity markets; Border effects and trade flows
Trien Nguyen
nguyen@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x32794
Office: HH 202
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
BSc; ChE (California, Berkeley); MA (Simon Fraser); MA; PhD (Western Ontario)
Areas of specialization: Public policy; Economics of taxation; Computational economics; Asian economies; Teaching and learning
Joseph De Juan
jdejuan@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x33549
Office: HH 208
Personal website
BSc (De La Salle); MSc (Illinois); MA Stat; PhD (North Carolina State)
Areas of specialization: Macroeconomics; Monetary economics; Applied econometrics
Alain-Désiré Nimubona
animubona@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x33949
Office: HH 212
Personal website
BA (Université du Burundi); MSci; PhD (École des Hautes Études commerciales de Montréal (HEC Montréal) - Univ of Montréal)
Areas of specialization: Environmental economics; Industrial organization; Development economics
Pat Shaw
pshaw@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x36556
Office: HH 219
Contact for: Current and future MA and PhD program inquiries
Joel Blit
jblit@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x35211
Office: HH 105
Website and CV: Joel Blit
BASc Engineering Science (Toronto); MASc Computer Engineering (Waterloo); MBA (INSEAD); MA Economics (Western); PhD Economics (Toronto)
Areas of specialization: Economics of Innovation, Technology Clusters, Intellectual Property, Entrepreneurship, International Trade
John Burbidge
jburbidge@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x37204
Office: HH 125
Personal website
BA Mathematics & Economics (McGill); PhD (McGill)
Areas of specialization: Public finance
Lutz-Alexander Busch
lbusch@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x35229
Office: HH 216
BSc (Victoria); MA; PhD (Western Ontario)
Areas of specialization: Applied microeconomic theory; Applied game theory
Emanuel Carvalho
ecarvalho@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x32246
Office: PAS 2419
CV: Emanuel Carvalho
BA, MA (Waterloo); PhD Urban and Regional Planning (Waterloo)
Areas of Specialization: Regional and community economic development
Pierre Chaussé
pierre.chausse@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x32422
Office: HH 211
Personal website
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
BA (Montréal); MA (Queen's); MPhil (Yale); PhD (Québec à Montréal)
Areas of specialization: Applied and theoretical econometrics; Generalized empirical likelihood; Generalized method of moments
Tao Chen
t66chen@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x32558
Office: HH 207
BA Finance (SISU); MA Economics; MS Math; PhD Economics; PhD Math [A.B.D.] (University of Connecticut)
Areas of specialization: Econometric theory; Applied econometrics; Functional data analysis; Labour economics
Philip Curry
pacurry@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x32644
Office: HH 126
CV: Philip Curry
Personal website
BA; MA; PhD (Western)
Areas of specialization: Applied microeconomic theory; Economics of crime; Family law; Optimal taxation; Industrial organization
Lori J. Curtis
ljcurtis@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x33162
Office: HH 240
CV: Lori J. Curtis
Personal website
Nursing Diploma (Durham College); B.Sc (Honours Economics, Trent); MA (Economics, McMaster); PhD (Economics, McMaster)
Areas of specialization: Health economics; Labour economics; Social policy; Applied microeconometrics
Matthew Doyle
m6doyle@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x35352
Office: HH 132
Personal website
BA; MA (McMaster); PhD (University of British Columbia)
Areas of specialization: Macroeconomics; Monetary theory and policy; Fisheries economics
Jean Guillaume Forand
jgforand@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x33635
Office: HH 131
Personal website
BA (Ottawa); MA (Université du Québec à Montréal); PhD (Toronto)
Areas of specialization: Microeconomic theory; Political economy
Jean-Paul Lam
jplam@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x33091
Office: HH 220
BSc Honours (University of Hull, England); MA, PhD (McMaster)
Areas of specialization: Macroeconomics; Monetary economics
Eva Lau
Retired: 2014
Areas of specialization: Microeconomics and macroeconomics; Cost benefit analysis; Economics of education; Personal finance and economics
Stéphanie Lluis
slluis@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x32960
Office: HH 217
Personal website
MSc (Mathématiques Appliquées et Sc. Sociales, Univ. Paris 7 et Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) and MSc Economics (Université de Montréal); PhD Economics (Université de Montréal)
Areas of specialization: Labour economics; Personnel economics; Applied econometrics
Geoff Malleck
geoff.malleck@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x32654
Office: HH 101
CV: Geoff Malleck
Executive MBA (Queen's)
Areas of specialization: Marketing; Consumer economics; Entrepreneurship
Mikko Packalen
packalen@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x33413
Office: HH 205
Personal website
MSocSci (Helsinki); LicSocSci (Helsinki); PhD (Stanford)
Areas of specialization: Public Economics; Health Economics; Economics of Innovation
Thomas Parker
tmparker@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x38600
Office: HH 206
CV: Thomas Parker
Personal website
BS Economics (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); MA Economics (University of British Columbia); PhD Economics (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Areas of specialization: Econometric theory; Applied econometrics
Emmanuelle Piérard
epierard@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x37712
Office: HH 209
Personal website
BSc Université du Québec à Montréal; MA; PhD (McMaster)
Areas of specialization: Health economics; Applied econometrics
Horatiu A. Rus
hrus@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x38338
Office: HH 203
Personal website
BA (Babes-Bolyai University); MA International Relations and European Studies (Central European University); MA Economics (York University); PhD (University of British Columbia)
Areas of specialization: International trade; Natural resource and environmental economics; Political economy and development
Kathleen Rybczynski
krybczynski@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x32146
Office: HH 210
Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (BSFS) (Georgetown University-School of Foreign Service); MA (Waterloo); PhD (Queen's)
Areas of specialization: Labour economics; Health economics; Economics of gender
Mikal Skuterud
skuterud@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x32584
Office: HH 204
Personal website
BA (McMaster); MA (British Columbia); PhD (McMaster)
Areas of specialization: Labour economics; Microeconometrics
Larry Smith
lwsmith@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x32647
Office: SCH 240
MA, Waterloo; Recipient of the "Distinguished Teacher Award"
Areas of specialization: Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Forecasting
Corey Van de Waal
chvandewaal@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x32463
Office: HH 103
BA; MA (Waterloo)
Areas of specialization: Labour economics; Public policy; Economics of education; Economics of sport
Mary Ann Vaughan
CV: Mary Ann Vaughan
BA (McMaster); MA (Waterloo)
Areas of specialization: Macroeconomics; Monetary policy
Dinghai Xu
dhxu@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x32047
Office: HH 201
Personal website
BA (CTBU - China); MA (Windsor); PhD (Western Ontario)
Areas of specialization: Financial econometrics; Empirical finance; Applied econometrics
Nafeez Fatima
BSc; MSc Economics (North South University, Bangladesh); MA Economics (York); MSc Economics (Oklahoma State)
E-mail: n2fatima@uwaterloo.ca
Office: HH 162
Ryan George
E-mail: r22georg@uwaterloo.ca
Phone: x 33169
Office: HH 218
Personal website
BSc Economics; BA History (Victoria); MA Economics (Toronto); MA History (York); PhD History (McMaster)
Wokia Kumase
BSc (University of Buea); MA, PhD (University of Gottingen)
E-mail: wkumase@uwaterloo.ca
Office: HH 162
Zara Liaqat
BSc (Lahore University of Management Sciences); MA, PhD (University of Southern California)
E-mail: zliaqat@uwaterloo.ca
Office: HH 162
Here is the link to my personal website.
Olivia Ozlem Mesta
omesta@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x36559
Office: HH 221
BSc Mathematics (Istanbul University); MSc Mathematical Engineering (Istanbul Technical University); MBA, MSc Applied Mathematics, MA Economics, PhD Economics (University of Missouri)
Areas of specialization: Microeconomics; Mathematical Economics; Industrial Organization; Marketing, Business Economics; Financial Economics.
Fiona Rahman
Master of Arts in Business Economics (MABE) (Laurier); MA (Waterloo)
E-mail:ftrahman@uwaterloo.ca
Office: HH 162
Wendy Roth
BMath (Waterloo); BA (Waterloo); MA (Economics, Toronto); MEd (Educational Administration and Policy, Toronto/Ontario Institute for Studies in Education)
E-mail: wroth@uwaterloo.ca
Pirapa Tharmalingam
BA (McMaster); MA (Waterloo)
E-mail: p2tharma@uwaterloo.ca
Office: HH 162
Andreas A. Andrikopoulos
Personal home page
Email: aaa@aueb.gr
Retired: 1991
Areas of specialization: Applied microeconometrics; Urban and regional economics
Karl M.H. Bennett
BA; MA (Queen's); PhD (McGill)
Retired: 2002
Areas of specialization: Economic development (trade policy); Economic development (finance)
Richard W. Bodell
BSc, Dip Ed (Sydney); MA, PhD (York)
Retired: 2007
Areas of specialization: Natural resource economics; Cost-benefit analysis
James A. Brox
BA (Toronto); MA, PhD(McMaster)
Email:jbrox@uwaterloo.ca
Retired: 2009
Areas of specialization: Forecasting; Applied econometrics
Michael C. Howard
BA, MA (Lancaster); PhD (Leicester)
Email: mchoward@uwaterloo.ca
Retired: 1997
Areas of specialization: Economic theory; Economic thought; Economic systems
Stanley W. Kardasz
BA (Loyola); PhD (Queen's)
Email: swkardas@uwaterloo.ca
Retired: 2005
Areas of specialization: Industrial organization - determinants of domestic and import prices in Canadian manufacturing
Robert R. Kerton
BComm (Toronto); MA (Carleton); PhD (Duke)
Email: kerton@uwaterloo.ca
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Retired: 2008
Areas of specialization: Consumer economics; International consumer policy; Microeconomics of regulation; Public policy
Ramesh C. Kumar
BStat, MStat (Indian Statistical Institute); MA, PhD (Toronto)
Email: rkumar@uwaterloo.ca
Retired: 2010
Areas of specialization: Comparative economic growth; Resource and environment economics
Fadle M. Naqib
BSc (Washington); MSc (Oregon); PhD (Queen's)
Email: fmnaqib@uwaterloo.ca
Retired: 2003
Areas of specialization: Mathematical economics; Economics of the Middle East
James Redekop
BSc (Victoria); MA, PhD (Toronto); PhD (Waterloo)
Email: jredekop@uwaterloo.ca
Retired: 2011
Areas of specialization: Financial economics; Econometrics; Social choice and welfare; Mathematical economics
Kenneth Stollery
BA (Southern California); MA, PhD (Queen's)
Professor of Economics at the University of Waterloo: 1974 - 2005
Ken Stollery passed away in 2005. He was a highly regarded faculty member in the Department of Economics for more than 30 years, serving as Associate Chair for both undergraduate and graduate studies.
Areas of specialization: Natural resources; Environmental economics
David Wilton
BComm (McMaster); PhD (MIT)
Retired: 2007
Areas of specialization: Labour economics; Economics of tourism; Macroeconomics
Behnoush Amery
BA and MA (Economics, Shahid Beheshti University); MA (Labour Economics, Concordia University)
E-mail: bamery@uwaterloo.ca
Office: HH 236
Yu Chen
BA (Shanghai University); MA (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
E-mail: y327chen@uwaterloo.ca
Office:
Hang Gao
BA (Shan Xi University of Finance and Economics); MA (University of Windsor)
Email: H24gao@uwaterloo.ca
Office: HH 236
Xiao Yan Lin
BSc (Economics and Mathematics, University of Toronto); MA (University of Waterloo)
E-mail: xy2lin@uwaterloo.ca
Ghazal Memartoluie
BA (Theoretical economics, University of Tehran); MA (Economics, University of Waterloo)
E-mail: ghazal.toluie@gmail.com
Office: HH 236
Shi Lei Niu
BSc (Economics and Finance, University of York); MSc (Finance and Econometrics, University of York)
E-mail: slniu@uwaterloo.ca
Mykhaylo Oystrakh
HonBA (Business-Economics, York University); MA (Economics, York University).
E-mail: moystrakh@uwaterloo.ca
Mauricio Zelaya
BComm (Finance and Economics, University of Toronto); MA, (International Economics and Finance, Ryerson University).
E-mail: mzelaya@uwaterloo.ca
Office: PAS 2204
Camelia Nunez
BA (Waterloo); MBET (Waterloo)
E-mail: cnunez@uwaterloo.ca
Office: SCH - 2nd floor (Velocity Start)
Million Tadesse
Ph.D. Economics (Norwegian University of Life Sciences, School of Economics and Business, Norway).
Email: mtaytenf@uwaterloo.ca
Office: HH 162
Qian Ji
BS (International Economics, Anhui University); MS (Policy Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign)
E-mail: qji@uwaterloo.ca
Office: (Inactive for fall 2015)
Jiahua Zhu
BSci (Statistics, Qingdoa University, China); MSci (Economics, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore)
Email: ZHUJ0018@e.ntu.edu.sg
Office:
Elshan Alekberov
BA (Plekhanov University of Economics); MA (School of Advanced International Relations, Johns Hopkins University) PhD (Plekhanov University of Economics)
Hany Fahmy
Zongjia Chen
BSci., University of Toronto
MA, University of Windsor
E-mail: zj5chen@uwaterloo.ca
Office: PAS 2206
Chris Riddell
c2riddell@uwaterloo
519-888-4567 x33560
HH 104
CV: Chris Riddell
BA, University of British Columbia; MA, McMaster University; PhD, University of Toronto
Areas of specialization: Labour Economics
Ghazal Memartoluie
BA (Theoretical economics, University of Tehran); MA (Economics, University of Waterloo); PhD Candidate (University of Waterloo)
Email: ghazal.toluie@gmail.com
Office: HH 230
Zhen He
BBA (Renmin University of China); MA Economics (University of New Brunswick); PhD Economics (University of Alberta)
E-mail: zhen.he@uwaterloo.ca
Office: HH 162
Nazrul Khan
MA (International Economics and Finance, Ryerson University)
E-mail: mn3khan@uwaterloo.ca
Office: HH 233
Ahmet Ozkardas
Ahmet Ozkardas
aozkarda@uwaterloo.ca
PAS 1049
CV: Ahmet Ozkardas
BSc Econometrics; MSc Economics (Université de Lyon II)
MSc Statistics (Universita' degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
PhD Economics (PSE - University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne)
Teferi Mergo
tmergo@uwaterloo.ca
519-885-1460 x 25208
Office: STP 210
Personal Website
BA (Addis Ababa University); MA (MTSU); PhD (Berkeley)
Areas of Specialization: Development; Demography; International
Idris Ademuyiwa
MSc. Economics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
E-mail: idris_ademuyiwa@yahoo.com
Office: PAS 2209
Ana Ferrer
aferrer@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x38771
Office: PAS 2427
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Personal website
IZA profile
BA (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid); MA, PhD (Boston University)
Areas of specialization: Labour economics; Education and household economics
Rosemary Peros
BA, MA Economics (Waterloo)
Email: rperos@uwaterloo.ca
Office: HH 162
CV: Rosemary Peros
Rob Nicholson, MA
David Rose
BMath (Waterloo); MBA (Wilfrid Laurier)
Email: d9rose@uwaterloo.ca
Office: Accelerator building 216B
Phone: 519-888-4567 x 30131
Predrag Rajsic
BSc, MSc Agricultural Economics (University of Guelph), PhD Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (University of Guelph)
E-mail: prajsic@uwaterloo.ca
Office: HH 162
Mark Zhou
BA Economics (University of Western Ontario); BA Information and Management (Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, China); MA, PhD (Queen’s University)
Francisco M. Gonzalez
francisco.gonzalez@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x32136
Office: HH 130
Personal website
BA (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), PhD (Boston University)
Areas of specialization: Macroeconomics; Economic development; Public economics
Greg Tanguay
B.Comm (Concordia) MBA (McGill) PhD (ABD) (Wilfrid Laurier)
Email: gtanguay@uwaterloo.ca
Office: HH 162
Xinyuan Yang
BA, Shandong University of Finance
MA, University of Windsor
E-mail: x283yang@uwaterloo.ca
Office: HH 236 / PHY 3008
Vivian (Xiaofei) Yang
vivyang@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x37073
Office: PAS 1049
PhD and MA in Economics (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Areas of specialization: International trade
Jie Chen
BSci (Mathematics, Shenzhen University); MSci (Economics, University of Windsor)
E-mail: j642chen@uwaterloo.ca
Office: PAS 2209
Irfan Mandozai, MA
Matthew Lo
Matthew is currently an intern at the Fraser Institute in Vancouver. He graduated with a joint honours degree in environment and business and economics.
Mohamad Ghaziaskar
BA (Theoretical Economics, University of Esfahan, Iran); MA (Theoretical Economics, University of Tehran, Iran ); MA (Economics, Simon Fraser University)
E-Mail: mghazias@uwaterloo.ca
Iuliia Nesterova
BA, East Ukrainian State University
MA, University of New Brunswick
E-mail: inestero@uwaterloo.ca
Office: HH 236
Yixuan Li
Hon. BMath, University of Waterloo
MA, University of Winnipeg
E-mail: y584li@uwaterloo.ca
Office: HH 237
Samantha St. Amand, MA
Ahmad Jiwani
Ahmad currently works as a Solution Marketing Consultant for SAP. He graduated with Honours Economics in the Arts and Business program.
Roy Brouwer
rbrouwer@uwaterloo.ca
Office: EIT 3003
CV: Roy Brouwer
MSc Agricultural Economics
(Wageningen Agricultural University, NL)
PhD Environmental Economics
(University of East Anglia, UK)
Xiaochen Zhou
BBA (Sichuan University, University of Prince Edward Island); MA (Economics, University of New Brunswick)
Email: zxcwhr@gmail.com
Office:
Zehua Pan
BSci., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
E-mail: z64pan@uwaterloo.ca
Office: EIT 3008 / HH 236
Sue Horton
sehorton@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x 37730
Office: LHN 2714
CV: Sue Horton
BA (Cambridge), AM, PhD (Harvard)
Areas of specialization: Economics of health and nutrition in low and middle income countries; economics of public health; cost-effectiveness of health interventions
Barb Bloemhof
Email: bloemhof@uwaterloo.ca
Location: Hagey Hall Room 241
Phone: 519-888-4567 x32132
Bachelor of Arts (Specialized Honours Economics), University of Guelph
Master of Arts, Economics, Queen’s University
Doctor of Philosophy, Economics, McMaster University
Lingrui Zhang
BSci., University of Delaware
MA, San Diego State University
Email: l565zhan@uwaterloo.ca
Office: HH 236
Tawnessa Carter
tawnessa.carter@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x46886
Office: HH 213
Advisor for: Economics minor, Management Studies minor
Contact for: academic advising questions, co-op sequence changes, degree audits, course scheduling, calendar changes
Sherri Anne Arsenault
saarsenault@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x33695
Office: HH215
Lynn Skelly
lskelly@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x32186
Office: HH 214
Contact for: academic advising questions, co-op sequence changes, degree audits, course scheduling, calendar changes
Derek Stacey
dstacey@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x36825
Office: HH 102
Link to personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/derekgstacey/
Education: BBA (Nipissing); MA & PhD (Queen’s)
Research interests: Housing, Labour, Finance
Sudipto Ghosh
MA, University of Windsor
BA, North South University, Bangladesh
E-mail: s52ghosh@uwaterloo.ca
Office: TBD
Sining Wang
Sining Wang
s555wang@uwaterloo.ca
HH 128
(519)-888-4567 ext. 36561
CV: Sining Wang
Website: www.siningwang.com
Boukary Traore
BSci., 2nd University Ouaga, Burkina Faso
MSci., University of Sherbrooke
Email: btraore@uwaterloo.ca
Office: TBD
Muhebullah Karimzada
HBSc (Integrative Biology and Economics, University of Toronto), MA (Economics, University of Windsor), PhD Candidate (Economics, McMaster).