Discipline
Business Economics and Public Policy
Supervisor
- Guy Holburn
Sorena is a PhD Candidate in Business Economics and Public Policy at the Ivey Business School. He is interested in how institutions evolve as they shape and are shaped by economic activity. He studies how corporations integrate their market and non-market capabilities to influence legislation and policy. Sorena also works with the Ivey Energy Policy and Management Centre, where he is involved in studying the investment climate for Canada’s energy sector, as well as investment conditions within Canada’s clean energy technology sector.
Education
- Master of Science in Economics, Sharif University of Technology, 2014-2017
- Bachelor of Science in Economics, Shahid Beheshti University, 2009-2014
Research Interests:
- Political Economy
- Non-Market Strategy
- Political Risk
- Law and Economics
Academic Experience:
- Graduate Research Assistant, Ivey Energy Policy and Management Centre, 2018-Present
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, Ivey Business School, 2018-Present
- Graduate Research Assistant, Sharif University of Technology, 2015-2018
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, Sharif University of Technology, 2015-2018
- Econometrics I (MSc Course, Fall 2015)
- Microeconomics II (MSc Course, Spring 2016)
- Macroeconomics II (MSc Course, Fall 2016)
- Microeconomics I (MSc Course, Fall 2017)
- Advanced Topics in Macroeconomics (MSc/PhD Course, Fall 2017)
- Industrial Organization (MSc/PhD Course, Spring 2018)
Academic Service
- VP Finance, Ivey PhD Association, 2019-Present
