Faculty
Our regular faculty members, instructors, and administrative staff want to make your experience in our department enriching and positive. We have a broad range of interests and expertise to help guide you through your program.
Dr. Kam H. Chu
Professor
On leave during 2024-25
Telephone: (709) 864-8102
Email: kchu@mun.ca
Research Interests: Money and Banking in Canada and Hong Kong; Free Banking, Banking Regulation, Banking Stability and Deposit Insurance
Dr. Tony Fang 
Professor and Stephen Jarislowsky Chair in Economic and Cultural Transformation
Telephone: (709) 864-3779
Email: tfang@mun.ca
Research Interests: Labour economics and applied econometrics. Global and local cultures, immigration, diasporas, demographic change and strategies for population growth and immigration retention and integration, pension, retirement policy and the ageing workforce, economics of education and minimum wages, recruitment and retention of international students.
Dr. Lynn Gambin 
Associate Professor
On leave during 2024-25
Telephone: (709) 864-8103
Email: lynn.gambin@mun.ca
Research Interests: Labour economics; economics of education; health economics; public policy; programme evaluation; and vocational education and training.
Dr. Gubhinder Kundhi
Associate Professor
On leave during FALL 2024-25
Telephone: (709) 864-8108
Email: gkundhi@mun.ca
Research Interests: Applied Econometrics, Econometrics Theory, Micro-Econometrics, Statistics
Dr. Jean-Gabriel Lauzier
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Assistant Professor
Email: jlauzier@mun.ca
Research Interests: Theory, Risk and Uncertainty, Insurance economics and actuarial science, Incentives
Dr. Blair Long
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Assistant Professor
Email: blairlong@mun.ca
Website: www.blairlong.ca
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Economic History, Law and Economics
Dr. Nikita Lyssenko
Associate Professor
Telephone: (709) 864-2149
Email: nlysenko@mun.ca
Research Interests: Environmental economics, valuation of environmental and natural resources, economics of climate change
Dr. Rober MartÃnez-Espiñeira
Professor and Department Head
Telephone: (709) 864-3676
Email: rmartinezesp@mun.ca
Research Interests: Water demand and water pricing, valuation of natural resources and other non-marketed goods and services
Dr. Derek Messacar
Associate Professor
Co-operative Education Coordinator and Undergraduate Program Director
Telephone: (709) 864-2465
Email: dmessacar@mun.ca
Research Interests: Public, Labour, Behavioural, Education, Empirical Micro
Professor Emeritus
Dr. Noel Roy (Retired)
Dr. William E. Schrank (Retired)
Honorary Research Professors
Dr. Jim Feehan (Retired)
Email: feehan@mun.ca
Dr. Doug May (Retired)
Email: dmay@mun.ca
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Dr. C Michael Wernerheim (Retired)
Email: wern@mun.ca
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