Faculty and Staff

Hafiz Akhand

Member
  • Associate Professor
  • PhD (Queen's)

Research Interests

  • Macroeconomic Theory, Monetary Theory, International Finance

Current Classes

  • Econ 201 Introductory microeconomics
  • Econ 202 Introductory macroeconomics
  • Econ 302 Intermediate macroeconomics I Fluctuations
  • Econ 308 Intermediate macroeconomics II Economic growth
  • Econ 342 International financial markets

Shaun Augustin

Member
  • Sessional Lecturer III
  • Head, Business Development & Leasing, Parks Service
  • Saskatchewan Ministry of Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport
  • MA Economics (Regina)

Current Classes

  • Econ 201 Introductory microeconomics
  • Econ 202 Introductory macroeconomics
  • Econ 238 Economics of sports

Jack Boan

Member
  • Professor Emeritus

Research Interests

  • Health Economics, Economics of Public Policy

Jason Childs

Member
  • Associate Professor
  • Graduate Coordinator
  • PhD (McMaster)

Research Interests

  • Experimental Economics, International Finance, Behavioural Economics, Public-Goods Provision, Economics of Deception

Current Classes

  • Econ 202 Introductory macroeconomics
  • Econ 309 Intermediate microeconomics II Game theory
  • Econ 802 Macroeconomics for public policy

Brian Christie

  • Associate Member, Department of Economics
  • Associate Vice-President (Resource Planning)
  • ABD PhD MA, BSc (Toronto)

Research Interests

  • Education economics, economic policy

Monika Çule

Member
  • Assistant Professor
  • PhD (Saskatchewan)

Research Interests

  • Economics of Corruption, Economics of Regulatory Compliance, New Institutional Economics, Environmental Economics

Current Classes

  • On sabbatical leave to June 2012

Fazal Dar

Member
  • Instructor III
  • MSc (Saskatchewan), MAdmin (Regina)

Current Classes

  • Econ 201 Introductory microeconomics
  • Econ 202 Introductory macroeconomics
  • Econ 281 Wages and employment
  • Econ 301 Intermediate microeconomics I
  • Econ 302 Intermediate macroeconomics I Economic fluctuations
  • Econ 331 Monetary theory and domestic financial markets

Viktoriya Galushko

Member
  • Assistant Professor
  • PhD (Saskatchewan)

Research Interests

  • Intellectual Property Rights in Agriculture, Economics of Innovation, Returns to Agricultural R & D, International Trade Policy, Agricultural Trade Policy

Current Classes

  • Econ 201 Introductory microeconomics
  • Econ 224 Empirical economics
  • Econ 322 Mathematical economics
  • Econ 341 Canada and the global economy (economics of trade)
  • Econ 801 Microeconomics for public policy

Mindy-Lee Geres-Gudmundson

Member
  • Sessional Lecturer II
  • Director of Financial Resource Planning, Ministry of Justice
  • BA Economics, BAET, BBA(HRM)

Current Classes

  • Econ 201 Introductory microeconomics

Harminder Guliani

Member
  • Lecturer
  • MSc GND University, Amritsar, India; PhD Candidate University of Manitoba

Research Interests

  • Health economics

Current Classes

  • Econ 100 Introduction to economic issues
  • Econ 211 Economics of Developing Countries
  • Econ 353 Health Economics

David Hanly

Member
  • Adjunct Professor; Sessional Lecturer III
  • Senior Energy Economist, Saskatchewan Ministry of Energy and Resources
  • PhD (York)

Current Classes

  • Econ 361 Economics of public enterprise and regulation
  • Econ 372 Natural resource management on the prairies

George Hartner

  • Sessional Lecturer II
  • Monitoring and analysis analyst, Financial services branch, Saskatchewan Ministry of Health
  • MS (Financial Economics), Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton)

Current Classes

  • Econ 301 Intermediate microeconomics
  • Econ 302 Intermediate macroeconomics
  • Econ 311 Development Economics
  • Econ 331 Theories of money and banking

Marion Jones

Member
  • Professor
  • PhD (London)

Research Interests

  • Economics of Development and Growth, Welfare Economics, Public Finance, China and Economies in Transformation

Current Classes

  • On Leave

Anichul Hoque Khan

Member
  • Sessional Lecturer III
  • Visiting Professor
  • PhD (Helsinki)

Research Interests

  • Macroeconomic Theory, Monetary Economics, and Micro Finance

Current Classes

  • Econ 211 Development economics
  • Econ 302 Intermediate macroeconomics I fluctuations

Harvey King

Member
  • Associate Professor
  • Director of the Centre for Continuing Eduction
  • PhD (Western Ontario)

Research Interests

  • Regional Wage Differences, Educational Production Functions

Current Classes

  • Econ 202 Introductory macroeconomics

Richard Kleer

Member
  • Associate Professor
  • Dean of Arts
  • PhD, Toronto

Research Interests

  • early modern monetary history, financial crises, bubbles

Ida Jianqiao Liu

Member
  • Assistant Professor
  • PhD University of Ottawa

Research Interests

  • Environmental economics, tradable permits, environmental R&D and taxation

Current Classes

  • Econ 100 Introduction to economic issues
  • Econ 273 Environmental economics
  • Econ 322 Mathematical economics

Perry Martens

Member
  • Sessional Lecturer II

Current Classes

  • Econ 100 Introduction to economic issues
  • Econ 201 Introductory microeconomics
  • Econ 351 Cost-benefit analysis

Bankole Fred Olayele

Member
  • Sessional Lecturer II
  • Economist/Policy Analyst, Economic Analysis and Strategy Branch
  • Enterprise Saskatchewan, Government of Saskatchewan
  • MA Economics (University of Victoria, B.C.), PMP

Current Classes

  • Econ 224 Empirical economics
  • Econ 273 Environmental economics

John Palmer

Member
  • Adjunct Professor
  • PhD Iowa State University (Ames)

Research Interests

  • Economic analysis of law, sports economics, money

Pavel Peykov

  • Sessional Lecturer II
  • International Officer, Saskatchewan Executive Council, Intergovernmental Affairs Branch, Government of Saskatchewan
  • MA Economics (Regina), MPA (Regina)

Current Classes

  • Econ 100 Introduction to economic issues
  • Econ 202 Introductory macroeconomics

Hale Ramsey

  • Adjunct Professor; Sessional Lecturer II
  • Fiscal Policy, Saskatchewan Finance

Current Classes

  • Econ 100 Introduction to economic issues
  • Econ 832 Tax policy and fiscal federalism

Ken Sagynbekov

Member
  • Assistant Professor
  • PhD University of Mississippi (Oxford)

Research Interests

  • Applied microeconomics, health, public choice

Current Classes

  • Econ 201 Introductory microeconomics
  • Econ 202 Introductory macroeconomics
  • Econ 253 Health care in Canada
  • Econ 824 Econometrics and data analysis

Gary Tompkins

Member
  • Associate Professor
  • PhD (Western Ontario)

Research Interests

  • Public finance

Current Classes

  • Econ 201 Introductory microeconomics
  • Econ 280 Writing for economists
  • Econ 354 Economics of Cities

Wendy Whitebear

Member
  • Secretary

  • Office: CL-241
  • Email: Wendy.Whitebear@uregina.ca
  • Phone: 306 585 4485
  • Fax: 306 585 4815

Stuart Wilson

Member
  • Associate Professor
  • Department Head
  • PhD (Queen's University at Kingston)

Research Interests

  • Savings, investment, and economic growth; demographic change and economic policy

Current Classes

  • Econ 480 Seminar in economics

Lihui Zhang

Member
  • Associate Member, Department of Economics
  • Assistant Professor, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy
  • PhD (Dalhousie University)

Research Interests

  • Labour economics, Applied econometrics, Crime economics, Economics of family and children, Population health and well-being, Poverty and inequality and public policies

Current Classes

  • JSGS 802 Public Finance
  • JSGS 805 Economics for public policy