Faculty Profiles

Sobey School Faculty & Researchers

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Accounting Faculty

Bruce Anderson, PhD 
Granville Ansong, PhD 
Vasiliki Athanasakou, PhD, ACCA
David Bateman, MBA, CPA, CA
Matthew Boland, PhD 
Lawrence Corrigan, PhD, MBA, FCPA, FCGA
Mohamed Drira, PhD, CPA, CGA, CITP 
Hong Fan, PhD, CPA (Illinois)
Khin Phyo Hlaing, PhD, MAcc, MBA
Natalia Kochetova, PhD, FCPA, FCMA 
Karen Lightstone, PhD, CPA, CA
Jeffrey Power, PhD, FCPA, FCMA 
Daphne Rixon, PhD, FCPA, FCMA 
Heather Sceles, CPA, CA 
Peter Secord, PhD (Sabbatical)
Xiaofei Song, PhD, FCPA, FCGA 

Economics Faculty

Ather Akbari, PhD 
Sal AmirKhalkhali, PhD 
Pyare Arya, PhD 
Yigit Aydede, PhD 
Marie-Claire Robitaille-Blanchet, PhD
Atul Dar, PhD
Maryam Dilmaghani, PhD 
Martha MacDonald, PhD 
Joniada Milla, PhD
Sonja Novkovic, PhD 
Mark Raymond, PhD 
Bidyut Talukdar, PhD

Professors Emeritus

Andy Harvey, PhD

Finance, Information Systems & Management Science Faculty

Ashraf Al Zaman, PhD
Najah Attig, PhD
Francis Boabang, PhD
Tony Charles, PhD 
Liqiang Chen, PhD 
Jie Dai, PhD 
Paul S. Dixon, PhD 
J. Colin Dodds, PhD
Hamdi Driss, PhD
Dawn Jutla, PhD
Kathryn Kimery, PhD
Rahman Khokhar, PhD 
Eric Lee, PhD
Jia Liu, PhD
Bahareh Mansouri, PhD
Harvey Millar, PhD 
Mahmoud Moh'd, PhD
Florian Muenkel, PhD
Christine Panasian, PhD 
Mohammad Rahaman, PhD 
Shyamala C. Sivakumar, PhD 
Zeying (Zoey) Wan, PhD 
Hai Wang, PhD 
Muhong Wang, PhD
Michael Zhang, PhD

Management Faculty

Patricia Bradshaw, PhD
Wendy Carroll, PhD
Claudia De Fuentes, PhD 
Cathy A. Driscoll, PhD 
Ellen A. Farrell, PhD 
Chantal Hervieux, PhD 
Camilla M. Holmvall, PhD
Feng Liu, PhD
Kellie (Xiaoyu) Liu, PhD
Catherine Loughlin, PhD 
Margaret McKee, PhD 
Jean Helms Mills, PhD 
Albert Mills, PhD 
James O’Brien, PhD
Firat Sayin, PhD 
Russel J. Summers, PhD
Vurain Tabvuma, PhD 
Terry Wagar, PhD 
David Wicks, PhD

Professors Emeritus

Larry Haiven, PhD
Jamal Badawi, PhD 
Patricia Fitzgerald, PhD 
Shripad Pendse, PhD
Hermann Schwind, PhD

Marketing Faculty

Valerie Creelman, Ph.D.
Gordon Fullerton, Ph.D. 
Karen Grandy, Ph.D. 
Chankon Kim, Ph.D. 
Miguel Morales, Ph.D.
Ethan Pancer, Ph.D. 
Ramesh Venkat, Ph.D. 
Mei-Ling Wei, Ph.D.

Communications Editors

Angela Garofolo, BA 
Kimberley Hicks, BA, B.Ed.
Amy Clement, BA, B.Ed.