Department of Economics

Sessional, visiting, adjunct, cross-listed, and emeritus faculty

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Noha Abdelfattah

Sessional Lecturer

BSc (Cairo), MSc (Portland), PhD Candidate (UVic).Noha Abdelfattah has held a teaching position at Cairo University, Egypt. She is currently a PhD candidate at UVic, working on research in the area of development economics. Her teaching interests and experience are in the fields of macroeconomics, econometrics and microeconomics.

Bijan Ahmadi

Sessional Lecturer

BSc (UVic), MSc (Barcelona), MA in progress (UVic). Bijan Ahmadi is currently completing a Masters in Economics at UVic. He has extensive experience with our Writing for Economists course, ECON 225, both as a teaching assistant and sessional lecturer.

Ken Avio

Professor Emeritus

BS (Oregon), MS (Purdue), PhD (Purdue). Ken Avio taught at the University of Western Ontario and Purdue University before joining the Department of Economics at UVic in 1974 as an assistant professor. He was promoted to professor in 1991 and served as department chair from 1983-86. His fields of interest are economics and philosophy, economic analysis of law, and economics of crime. Professor Avio retired in 2007.

Jim Brookes

Sessional Lecturer

BA and MA (SFU). Jim Brookes has had an extensive career in both industry and university research organizations. He has taught microeconomics and macroeconomics at SFU and BCIT. In industry, Jim was an executive with BC Tel/TELUS where he testified at numerous CRTC hearings on economics issues. He was responsible for company activities dealing with forecasting, elasticity studies, productivity studies, costing, and market share estimation. He also led departments responsible for marketing, advertising and business development. Dealing with university research, Jim was previously president of MITACS, currently is chief development officer for NeuroDevNet, and is on the boards of ISSNet and GRAND.

Yolina Denchev

Sessional Lecturer

MBA (Kentucky), MA (Tennessee), ABD (Tennessee). Yolina Denchev has taught in the Department of Economics at UVic since 1998 and is also an instructor and program chair in the Department of Finance and Economics in the School of Business at Camosun College. Her fields of specialization include macroeconomics, monetary economics, economic development, and public finance.

Lynda Gagné

Cross-listed Assistant Professor

BA (SFU), CGA, MA (SFU), PhD (UBC). Lynda Gagné joined the School of Public Administration as an assistant professor in 2001. She has been cross-listed in the Department of Economics since 2007. She taught accounting and economics at Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, and Columbia College between 1997 and 2001. She worked as an accountant in the non-profit sector and for the Yukon Government from 1986 to 1993. Professor Gagné’s government experience includes working as a budget analyst for the Yukon Government Budget Bureau and as an accountant for the Yukon Housing Corporation. She also worked as an information officer for the Yukon Government Bureau of Statistics. Her non-profit work experience includes working for a student association and for non-profit housing groups. Her research interests include: tobacco control; social programs, neighbourhoods, family behaviour and children’s outcomes; household economics; taxation and the family; public finance; and applied econometrics and microeconomics.

Iain Hardie

Sessional Lecturer

MA (Cantab.), MSc (Edinburgh), PhD (Edinburgh). Iain Hardie completed his first degree in 1985 in History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before beginning an investment banking career in London and Hong Kong, specialising in emerging bond markets. He came to Edinburgh in 2001 to complete a part-time MSc in International and European Politics, before completing a PhD in 2003-07. His PhD examines the links between the financialization of government bond markets and emerging market government policy autonomy, focusing on case studies Brazil, Lebanon and Turkey. He also works with Donald MacKenzie on the sociology of financial markets. Iain's research interests include issues surrounding financial globalization, especially financialization and varieties of financial capitalism, focusing on the implications for both developed and developing countries.

Knick Harley

Adjunct Professor

BA, Honours (College of Wooster), MA (Harvard), PhD (Harvard).Professor Harley has built an outstanding reputation in the fields of North American and European economic history through a long career in which he taught at the University of British Columbia, the University of Michigan, the University of Toronto, the University of Pennsylvania, Simon Fraser University, the University of California at Davis, the Free University of Berlin, the University of Western Ontario, and most recently the University of Oxford where he is professor of economic history. He has published one major book – The Integration of the World Economy, 1850-1914 – and a host of articles in referred journals including two prize winning articles published in the Journal of Economic History. He has also published over fifteen referred articles in books. His research to date has focused on transportation, trade, global integration, the industrial revolution in England, trade policy and the role of factor prices in shaping income distribution and trade.

Professor Harley has not only built a stellar reputation as a scholar, he continues to carry out research on a variety of topics. At present he is working on: regional economies in the United States and Canada and their relationship to the world economy in the 19th century; freight rates on the North Atlantic; and the role of profits in the cotton industry during the English Industrial Revolution.

Ahmed Hoque

Sessional Lecturer

BSS (Bangladesh), MSS (Bangladesh), MA (Manitoba), PhD Candidate (UVic). Ahmed Hoque is a PhD candidate, completing an interdisciplinary program in the Departments of Economics and Mathematics and Statistics.

Betty Johnson

Sessional Lecturer

BA (UVic), MA (UVic). Betty Johnson has taught courses in managerial economics and introductory economic statistics at UVic since 1999.

J. Colin H. Jones

Professor Emeritus

BA (Wales), MA (Montana State), PhD (Queen’s). Colin Jones was a lecturer at Montana State University and Queen’s University before joining the Department of Economics at UVic as an instructor in 1963. He was promoted to professor in 1979 and served as department chair from 1999-2000. His fields of interest include: industrial organization; price theory; money and banking; and sports economics. Professor Jones retired in 2002 but continued to teach part-time until 2006.

Sunil Kaplash

Sessional Lecturer

BA (Delhi), MA (York), MBA (York). Sunil Kaplash has taught introductory micro and macroeconomics in the Department of Economics at UVic since 1990.

Beryl Li

Sessional Lecturer

BEng (Beijing), MA (Saskatchewan), PhD Candidate (UVic). Beryl Li has been a PhD student in the Department of Economics since 2008 and is currently a PhD candidate.

Martina Lui

Sessional Lecturer

BBA (Hong Kong), MA (UVic), PhD Candidate (UVic). Martina Lui has been a graduate student in the Department of Economics since 2008. She completed her MA in 2010 and is currently a PhD candidate.

Cristina Martinez

Sessional Lecturer

BA (Mexico), MA (UVic). Cristina Martinez has taught economics and statistics in the Department of Economics at UVic as well as in the School of Business at Camosun College. Her work has been published in Economics Letters and the BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. She is currently a senior economic analyst in the BC Ministry of Finance.

Alan Mehlenbacher

Adjunct Assistant Professor

B.S. (Michigan), M.Sc. (UBC), M.B.A. (SFU), Ph.D. (UVic). Alan Mehlenbacher is an economics and management consultant whose practice includes economic analyses, business valuations, cost-benefit analyses, and econometric analyses. He was previously a partner in a software development company, president of a property management company, and a senior manager in two BC Crown Corporations. He has published papers in Global Governance, Environmental Science & Policy, Computational Economics, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, and the Canadian Journal of Botany. Visit Alan Mehlenbacher’s web page: http://web.uvic.ca/~amehlen.

Shannon Pendergast

Sessional Lecturer

BA (SFU), MA (UVic). Since completing her MA degree, Shannon Pendergast has worked at establishing a career in the public sector. She is currently a tax policy analyst in the BC Ministry of Finance.

Richard Porges

Sessional Lecturer

BA (SFU), MA (SFU), ABD (UBC). Richard Porges has taught as a visiting and sessional lecturer in the Department of Economics and the Schools of Business and Public Administration at UVic since 1989. His areas of specialization in economics include: international economics; public finance; environmental economics; applied econometrics; and Canadian microeconomic policy issues. Mr. Porges has worked in the public service in BC since 1999, holding positions as senior economist and manager. He is currently Director, Research & Planning for Tourism BC.

Owen Powell

Sessional Lecturer

BSc (UVic), MA (UVic), MPhil (Tilburg), PhD (Tilburg). Owen Powell completed his BSc and MA degrees at UVic and then continued his education in Europe, where he is now a senior scientist in the Department of Economics, University of Vienna. He was also a visiting assistant professor at the University of Madrid from 2009-11. His research interests include experimental finance, bubbles, growth and growth accounting, and agent-based economics.

Brian Scarfe

Sessional Lecturer

BA Hons (UBC), BPhil (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon), Rhodes Scholar for BC in 1963. Brian Scarfe has taught courses in cost-benefit analysis, resource economics, and international economics for the department over the past several years.  Previously, he has held teaching and administrative positions at the Universities of Manitoba, Alberta (where he was economics department chair for ten years), and Regina (where he was vice-president academic for five years).  His company, BriMar Consultants Ltd., has completed numerous reports for various BC Government departments, often on cost-benefit analysis themes.  Dr. Scarfe has also published widely in the areas of macroeconomics, international economics, and energy economics.  Having spent several winters in each of the prairie capitals, Victoria is his chosen home.     

Joseph Schaafsma

Professor Emeritus

BA (McMaster), MA (McMaster), PhD (Toronto). Joseph Schaafsma joined the Department of Economics in 1971 as an assistant professor. He was promoted to professor in 1996 and served as department chair from 2000-2005. His fields of interest are public finance, economics of human resources, and health economics. Professor Schaafsma retired in 2008.

John A. Schofield

Professor Emeritus

BA Hons (Durham), MBA (Indiana), MA (SFU), PhD (SFU). John Schofield held positions as research assistant, economist and teaching associate prior to joining the faculty of the Department of Economics at UVic in 1972 as assistant professor. He was promoted to professor in 1989. Professor Schofield held a number of administrative positions at UVic, including: Department Chair; Associate Vice-President, Academic; Dean of Arts & Science; and most recently, Acting Executive Director, Co-operative Education Programs. His fields of interest include: regional and urban economics; public finance; cost-benefit analysis; human resources economics; and economics of sport. Professor Schofield retired in 2006.

Amy Sopinka

Sessional Lecturer

B.A. (Queen's) 1990, M.A. (McGill), 1994, Ph.D In Progress (UVIC).  Amy has been teaching undergraduate economics courses since 2000. She has taught courses in money and banking, public finance, international economics, principles of microeconomics, the Canadian economy, and introduction to derivatives and risk. In addition to teaching she has worked in the energy sector (electricity & natural gas) as an analyst. She has also consulted on a variety of energy and environmental forecasting studies for the provincial government, utilities and the private sector.

Nancy M. South

Sessional Lecturer

BA Hons (UBC), MA (Essex), PhD (Toronto). Nancy South was a lecturer and assistant professor at UVic and Trent University before joining the public service, where she has held positions as senior economist and senior policy advisor. Dr. South is currently Director, Priority Project, in the Ministry of Health Services. She teaches courses in the areas of labour economics and Canadian economic history.

Bradley Stennes

Adjunct Associate Professor

BSC (UBC), MSc (UBC), PhD (UBC). Brad Stennes is a research economist in the Trade and Economics Program at the Pacific Forestry Centre of the Canadian Forest Service. His main research responsibilities are in forest products trade and the development of BC’s forest sector with special emphasis on Canada’s value-added wood processing sector. Dr. Stennes sponsors the Pacific Forestry Centre Graduate Fellowship Award, which has been held by UVic economics students. He has also co-authored journal articles, proceedings and policy analysis working papers with our faculty and graduate students.

Lindsay Tedds

Cross-listed Assistant Professor

BA Honours (Carleton), BA with Distinction (UVic), MA (UVic), PhD (McMaster). Lindsay Tedds is a cross-listed assistant professor in the School of Public Administration and the Department of Economics at UVic and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. Her primary research and teaching area is applied economic research and policy analysis. Professor Tedds has also held several posts with the Government of Canada in Ottawa in the areas of public economics and policy implementation.

Dan Vo

Sessional Lecturer

BSc with Distinction (UVic), MA (UVic), PhD Candidate (UVic). Dan Vo has been a student in the Department of Economics since 2002 and is currently a PhD candidate. He has been a teaching assistant since 2005 and started teaching as a sessional lecturer in Winter Session 2009-10. His areas of specialization include: micro and macroeconomics, industrial organization, cost benefit analysis, game theory, and information and incentives.

Frederick Willeboordse

Sessional Lecturer

BSc, Physics (Amsterdam), MA, Philosophy (Amsterdam), MA, Physics (Amsterdam), PhD, Physics (Tsukuba, Japan). After a varied career, including 5 years in business and a teaching position at The National University of Singapore, Frederick Willeboordse relocated to Victoria, where he now teaches in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, the Faculty of Business, and the Department of Economics.

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