Atif Kubursi is President of Econometric Research Limited which he founded in 1972. He is also Emeritus Professor of Economics at McMaster University, Canada. He taught economics at Purdue University in Indiana, USA, was visiting Scholar at Cambridge University in the UK in 194-75, Fellow of the Institute for Social and Economic Policy in the Middle East at Harvard University, 1987-1996, Adjunct Professor with the Faculty of the Environmental & Urban Change at York University and has served as the Acting Executive Secretary, and Undersecretary General of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia 2006-2008.

In 1981 he worked for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization as Senior Development Officer and was consultant to the Organization throughout the 1980s – 2010s.  He consulted regularly with the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, UNFAO, UNCTAD, UNILO, UNESCO, UNEP, UNDP, and many other international organizations and governments. 

He holds a Ph.D. (1969) and M Sc. (1966) degrees in Economics from Purdue University, USA. B.A (1963) in Economics from the American University of Beirut. He completed three years towards a law degree at the Faculty of Law, Lebanese University 1961-1964.  He sits on a number of community and academic boards including Chair of the Global Carbon Footprint Data Foundation, Wellwood, Raising a Village, Trans Arab Research Institute, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Development Economics, and Chair-Board of Trustees, Canadian Arab Federation, President of the National Council on Canada Arab Relations. 

Honours and Fellowships: 

• Dean’s Honour list 1962 and 1963, American University of Beirut.
• Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1964, David Ross Fellowship, 19661967, Krannert Fellowship, 19661967, National Science Foundation Scholarship 1968.Member of the University Senate, 19761989. Member of the President Budget Advisory Committee, 1978, 1979, 1987, 1997.Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, leave fellowships, 1974/75, 198182 and 1988/89, 1995/96 and 2004/05.
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Research Fellowships, 2006/07 and 2016/18.
• Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Development Studies.
• Governor General Centennial Medal for Academic Excellence
• Fellow, Economic Research Forum.

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