Atif.
A. Kubursi teaches Economics at McMaster University since 1969. Dr. Kubursi also
taught economics at Purdue University in Indiana (USA), was a senior visiting
scholar at Cambridge University (UK), and lectured and consulted at Harvard
University, Massachusetts (USA).
In 1972, Atif Kubursi formed Econometric Research Limited (ERL), which he has continuously served as its president. In 1982, he joined the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) as Senior Development Officer. Since then, he worked as a team leader of several UNIDO missions to Indonesia, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Sudan, and Egypt. In his consulting activities he has specialized in the areas of economic development strategies, impact analysis and regional planning with special emphasis on the environment, tourism and industrial development. He has frequently lectured on globalization issues, economic development, oil and industrialization, impact of tourism on provincial and local economies, political economy of development, Arab affairs and on environment-economy linkages.
He has served as the Chief of the Economic Analysis Division at United Nations’ Economic Commission for Western Asia (ECWA) and former President of the National Council on Canada-Arab Relations (NCCAR).
He has also directed a large number of projects for ERL and the United Nations in Canada and abroad. He is author of seven books in economics and over 200 articles and reports, frequently invited as a guest lecturer to university and non-university groups and commentator on Middle Eastern affairs on TV and radio.