
School of Business & Economics
The School of Business and Economics at Algoma University delivers a high calibre business education in two unique locations, Sault Ste. Marie and Brampton.
The School builds on the success of the business and economics programs and the long-standing commitment of the University to provide access to top-quality academic programming that prepares students for career success while supporting the needs of its local business communities.
The Business Administration degree includes specialization in Accounting, Human Resources, Marketing and Economics.
The School of Business and Economics prides itself on developing business- and socially-conscious leaders. Students benefit from small class sizes, one-on-one interactions with caring faculty, and opportunities for personal and professional growth through experiential learning, such as the Northern Ontario Business Case Competition, co-operative education, internships, research positions, and more.

Two Unique Campus Locations
The Sault Ste. Marie campus offers a truly northern experience in the heart of the Great Lakes, while the School’s Brampton campus provides a unique urban lifestyle located downtown in one of Canada’s fastest growing cities. Both locations focus on academic excellence, concentrating on the educational and practical opportunities required to succeed in today’s economy.
Student Opportunities
CEO Case Competition
Teams of up to 5 members will face off against each other for a shot at earning a $1k. non-renewable scholarship to be used towards their future studies at AU. Learn More
Student Opportunities
Ambassador Program
The SchoolBE Ambassador Program is designed to orient current secondary level students (Grades 11 & 12) from our local school boards to the academic and social culture within the Algoma University School of Business & Economics. Learn More
Student Opportunities
Be The Blueprint: Leadership Conference/Workshops
Working with external organizations to facilitate workshops, presentations and activities related to a variety of soft skills, each leadership conference has its own unique underlying theme, with the goal of imparting participants with a new or enhanced “leadership” skill. Learn More
Student Opportunities
ADMN 4896: Innovative Solutions for Organizations
The "Innovative Solutions For Organizations" course was designed in collaboration with the City of Brampton’s Entrepreneurship Centre with the goal to create a positive impact through collaboration with community, government and industry partners. Learn More





Graduate Certificate in Human Resources Management
This Graduate Certificate is suitable for students who already hold another degree but desire skills in the HR field to complement their work experience and previous education.

Graduate Certificate in Business
The Graduate Certificate in Business is a one year program designed for students whose main interest is in acquiring basic knowledge and skills in business to enter or reenter the workforce quickly.

School of Business & Economic FAQs
On this page you will find some of the most Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) we receive from prospective and current students.
PROGRAMMING IN BRAMPTON | ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS |
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Bachelor of Business Administration - Business Administration | Gr. 12 English and two U/M Math (MDM4U recommended) |
Bachelor of Arts - Finance & Economics | Gr. 12 English and two U/M Math (MDM4U recommended) |
PROGRAMMING IN SAULT STE. MARIE | ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS |
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Bachelor of Arts - Accounting | Gr. 12 English and two U/M Math (MDM4U recommended) |
Bachelor of Business Administration - Business Administration | Gr. 12 English and two U/M Math (MDM4U recommended) |
Bachelor of Arts - Economics | Gr. 12 English and two U/M Math (MDM4U recommended) |
Bachelor of Arts - Finance & Economics | Gr. 12 English and two U/M Math (MDM4U recommended) |
Meet Our Team
Meet the faculty and staff members of the School of Business and Economics

Pelham Matthews
Faculty Chair, School of Business and Economics, Associate Professor
View Contact InfoVinay Yarlagadda
Part Time Contract Faculty
Brampton campus
Vinay had 7 years of experience as a full stack developer on .NET Stack. His experience ranges from Video Games Industry to Steel Manufacturing Industry since 2010. He is a PMI certified Project Management Professional and is currently heading Sales and Marketing for a Salesforce Partner, WestSpark. He holds an International MBA from Schulich School of Business and enjoys teaching.

Dr. Inderpal Kaur
Part-Time Instructor
Brampton campus
Education: B.Sc. (Homs.) in Economics, M.Sc. (Jon’s.) in Economics, Ph.D. In Economics, B.Ed.
Work Experience: Taught at Ryerson University and HBI College in Canada, 25 years of teaching experience in Indian University to Business and Economics classes. Publications include one book and twenty research papers. Areas of specialisation include Micro-Economics, Consumer Behaviour and Marketing Management, Business Statistics and Environment Economics. Research includes Human Resource Development.

Dr. Gerry J. Mahar
Assistant Professor
Sault Ste. Marie campus
[email protected]
705-949-2301, ext. 4758
Office: NW 304B

Pelham Matthews
Faculty Chair, School of Business and Economics, Associate Professor
Sault Ste. Marie campus
[email protected]
705-949-2301, ext. 4329
Office: NW 304

Dr. Nusrate Aziz
Associate Professor
Sault Ste. Marie campus
[email protected]
705-949-2301, ext. 4236
Office: SH 501
Credentials:
- PhD (International Economics & Financial Economics), University of Birmingham
- MSc (Development Economics), University of Birmingham
- BSS (Honours) & MSS (Economics), University of Chittagong
Area of Expertise:
International Economics and Financial Economics, Migration Economics, Institutional Quality and Economic Development
Teaching:
- ECON 2107 Intermediate Macroeconomics I
- ECON 3107 Intermediate Macroeconomics II
- ECON 3446 International Trade
- ECON 3447 International Finance
- ADMN 3116 Financial Management
- ADMN 3117 Corporate Finance
Selected Publications
- Nusrate Aziz, Murshed Chowdhury, and Arusha Cooray (2021), “Why do people of wealthy countries migrate?” European Journal of Political Economy (Elsevier) – forthcoming.
- Nusrate Aziz, Belayet Hossain and Laura Lamb (2021), “Does Green Policy Pay Dividends?”, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (Springer). https://link.springer.com/
article/10.1007%2Fs10018-021- 00317-7 - Nusrate Aziz, Arusha Cooray and Wing Leong Teo (2021), “Do Immigrants’ Funds Affect the Exchange Rate?”, The World Economy (Wiley), Vol. 44 (2): 560-585. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.13003
- Armed Conflict, Military Expenditure and International Tourism”, Tourism Economics (SAGE) Vol. 26 (4): 555-577 (2020). (with Usman Khalid, and Luke Okafor). https://doi.org/10.1177/
1354816619851404. - “Armed Conflict, Military Expenses and FDI Inflow to Developing Countries”, Defence and Peace Economics (Taylor & Francis), Vol. 30 (2): 238-251 (2019). (with U. Khalid). https://doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2017.1388066
- “Does the Quality of Political Institutions Affect Intra-Industry Trade within Trade Blocs? The ASEAN Perspective”, Applied Economics (Taylor & Francis), Vol 50, No. 33, 3560 – 3574 (2018). (with B. Hossain and I. Mowlah). https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2018.1430336
- “Exchange rate hysteresis in the UK imports from the South Asian Countries”, International Review of Economics and Finance (Elsevier), Vol. 58, No. Nov 2018, Page 159-178. (with AH Ahmad). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2018.03.007
- “The Role of Income in Intergenerational Co-residence: Evidence from Developing Countries”, Australasian Journal on Ageing (Wiley), Vol. 37 (2), E55–E60 (2018). (with B. Hossain and M. Emran). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ajag.12511
- “Military Spending, Armed Conflict and Economic Growth in Developing Countries in the Post-Cold War Era”, Journal of Economic Studies (Emerald), 44 (1): 47-68 (2017). (with MN Asadullah). https://doi.org/10.1108/JES-01-2015-0021
- “The Impact of Political Regime and Governance on ASEAN Economic Growth”, Journal of Southeast Asian Economies (Project MUSE), Vol. 32 (3): 375-389 (2015) (with Sheela D. Sundarasen). https://muse.jhu.edu/article/603884/pdf
- “The first and second stage pass-through of exchange rates: A developing country perspective”, Review of Development Economics (Wiley-Blackwell), Vol. 18(3), 595–609 (2014) (with N. Horsewood and S. Sen). https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.12105
- “Service Quality and Behavioural Intentions in Broadband Services Selection”, Marketing Intelligence and Planning (Emerald), Vol. 32 (4): 455-474 (2014) (with M.S. Rahman). http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/MIP-06-2013-0093
- “Interest Rate Pass-Through in the UK: Has the Transmission Mechanism Changed During the Financial Crisis?” Economic Issues, Vol. 18 (1): 17-37 (2013) (with H. Ahmad and S. Rummun). http://www.economicissues.org.uk/Files/2013/113Ahmad.pdf
- “Does a real devaluation improve the balance of trade? Empirics from Bangladesh economy”, Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. 46 (2): 19-41 (2012). https://muse.jhu.edu/article/470997
- “Growth of Government Expenditure in Bangladesh: An Empirical Enquiry into the Validity of Wagner’s Law”, Global Economy Journal, Vol. 9 (2): Article 5 (2010) (with M. A. Kalam). https://doi.org/10.2202/1524-5861.1451
Recent Conferences/Research Papers
- “Recent Vs Historical Migrants: A study on the Canadian Provincial Trade-Migration Nexus”. The 55th Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association (online) 3-5 June 2021. Presenter: Nusrate Aziz, Algoma University.
- “Does Green Policy Pay Dividends?”, 29th Annual Conference of the Canadian Environmental and Resource Economics Association, Oct 4-6, 2019, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
- “Good Governance, Quality of Institutions and International Migration”, The 2019 Canadian Economics Association Conference, May 31 – June 2, 2019, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
- “Labour Migration, Sectoral Shifts and Interprovincial Trade”, The 2018 Canadian Economics Association Conference, June 1-3, 2018, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
- “Labour Mobility and Interprovincial Trade in Canada”, GLO Discussion Paper, No. 341, Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen (2019). http://hdl.handle.net/10419/195101.
- “Armed Conflict, Military Expenditure and International Tourism”, The 2018 Canadian Economics Association Conference, June 1-3, 2018, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
- “Exchange rate hysteresis in UK imports from South Asian countries”, Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, CREDIT 18/3, (2018) University of Nottingham, UK. https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/credit/news/papers/1803.aspx
- “Institutions and Economic Growth: Does Income Level Matter?” MPRA Paper No. 83684 (2018).
- “Armed Conflict, Military expenses and FDI inflow”, The 51st Annual Conference of Canadian Economic Association (CEA), Nova Scotia’s St Francis Xavier University (June 2-4, 2017).
- “Do Immigrants’ Funds Affect the Exchange Rate?”. Research Paper 2017/13. Globalization and Economic Policy (GEP). University of Nottingham (October 2017). http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/gep/news-events/news/papers/1713.aspx. Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University, https://crawford.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/publication/cama_crawford_anu_edu_au/2017-10/64_2017_aziz_cooray_teo.pdf. Presented in the 50th Annual Conference of the CEA, University of Ottawa, Ontario (June 3-June 5, 2016).
- “The Effect of Immigration on Bilateral Exchange Rates: Canadian Perspective”, 9th Globalization and Economic Policy (GEP) International Conference, (February17-18, 2016).
- “Migrant Workers’ Remittance and Economic Growth: The Role of Financial Development”, MPRA Working paper no. 66992. https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/66992/1/MPRA_paper_66992.pdf. Presented in the 8th Globalization and Economic Policy (GEP) International Conference (11-12 February 2015).
Research in Progress
- Labour Retention and Assimilation of Migrants in the Northern Ontario Labour Market
- Northern Ontario Tourism Development & Recovery Strategy in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Immigration and sectoral shift in trade
- Canadian provincial environment control policy and CO2 emission
- Interest rate pass-through during the crises
- Capital Control, globalization, and Investment
- Risk and Returns of Cryptofinance

Dr. Krishna Kadiyala
Professor Emeritus
Sault Ste. Marie campus
[email protected]
705-949-2301, ext. 4325
Office: NW 304A


Dr. Hari Luitel
Associate Professor
Sault Ste. Marie campus
[email protected]
705-949-2301, ext. 4757
Office: SH 512

Dave Galotta
Associate Professor
Sault Ste. Marie campus
[email protected]
705-949-2301, ext. 4318
Office: NW 304D

Cathy Denomme
Associate Professor
Brampton & Sault Ste. Marie campus
[email protected]
705-949-2301, ext. 4343
Office: NW 304E

Nadine Landon
Director of Administrative Services and Strategic Initiatives
Brampton & Sault Ste. Marie campus
[email protected]
705-949-2301, ext. 4223

Dr. Aaron J. Gordon
Associate Professor
Sault Ste. Marie campus
[email protected]
705-949-2301, ext. 4376
Office: CC 401


Kareem Roberts
Part Time Instructor, School of Business and Economics
Brampton campus
Credentials: MBA Laurentian University, DBA student Edinburgh Business School
Area of Expertise: Nonprofit Management, Marketing. ADMN1016, 2017, 1206, 2406
Kareem has over 10 year working in the banking industry and also 5 year of non-profit industry working here in Canada, Europe, and Africa. Kareem currently working on a Doctorate degree from Edinburgh Business School in the UK.

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“Through the support of faculty and experiential learning, I’ve been given the opportunity to participate in the Algoma University Business Society and to build relationships with local businesspeople. The vision of experiential learning that the faculty has shaped encouraged me to push myself and to explore new ideas. My university experience has been filled with encouragement, unique opportunities, and an education that has given me the confidence to succeed. I can’t wait to see the continued growth of the Algoma University School of Business & Economics in the coming years.”
Courtney Dukes
Fourth-year student, HR & Marketing, BBA Program

“University School of Business and Economics prepares students for their future by hosting networking events, allowing flexible program routes (including co-op placements and a variety of programs), and maximum transferability of both college and university credits. This program was designed specifically for the benefit of students as they seek post-graduate work. Because of this, Algoma has taken special care to build a faculty of skilled, hardworking, well-educated, critical thinkers. These faculty members view challenges and problems as opportunities to learn and their eagerness is to grow is directly translated into the curriculum. Enrolling at Algoma in the BBA program sets students up with opportunities to meet future mentors and launch their dream career!”
Pelham Matthews
Associate Professor, Algoma University