Meet our contract faculty who bring their experience to York as professionals within their industries, visiting professors from other institutions or as top scholars in their fields. Find out more about their professional experience, research activities and areas of academic interest.
Bartosz Amerski
Bartosz is a passionate instructor and educator who very much cares about his students. He delivers passionate and compelling lectures that are enhanced by the use of real-life examples and has ...
Michael Ben
Michael Ben is currently an instructor and Course Director at the School of Administrative Studies, York University, where he teaches Managing and Implementing Strategic Information Systems. Michael’s teaching methods involves ...
Syed Banoori
Syed considers his teaching style to be student-centric. He engages students as much as possible by posing thought provoking questions and class participation. He aims to create a positive environment ...
Dave Baumken
Dave provides students with a rewarding learning experience through excellence in teaching core subject matter supported by case study analysis and providing expert guidance of students research objectives. He has ...
Lorenzo Bonanno
Lorenzo is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Professional Accountant. He enjoys bringing his practical experience at work into the classroom to help students gain a better understanding of Canadian Taxation.Lorenzo Bonanno ...
Don Bourgeois
Don's teaching style is a mixture of presentation and iterative engagement with students and among students. He ensures students understand the fundamental information needed to engage in class and acquire a deeper ...
Eduardo Bresani
Eduardo's teaching style can be described as adaptive, interactive, supportive and transparent. He is comfortable with a high-tech approach to facilitate learning and encourage my students to have a voice ...
Tom Chatzidimos
Tom incorporates what he refers to as “the three Ds” into his teaching approach, being: Direct (demonstrate what to do); Discuss: (ask questions); and, Delegate (empower students to take initiative). ...
Yundi Chen
As a lecturer, Yundi intend to carry out ‘Transpositional Consideration’ which is teaching systematic knowledge from students’ standpoint in adaptive approach. Knowledge comes from life and knowledge applies to life. ...
Helena Cheung
Helena acts as a guide to create opportunities for fostering curiosity, interest, and understanding. She works hard to create a learning environment encouraging collaboration, critical thinking and problem solving. Her industry experience ...
Sophia Craig
Sophia is a professional emergency manager with over 17 years of emergency response and recovery experience internationally in complex emergencies, and domestically at municipal and regional levels in Canada. Sophia has ...
Steven Del Duca
Steven enjoys sharing anecdotes from his time serving in government as a senior Cabinet Minister in an attempt to provide real world examples to help students understand the course materials better. Steven was ...
David DeVries
David believes in passing on information through readings and lectures and then reinforcing learning through interactive discussions and group work. He supports experiential learning by providing scenarios based on real life emergencies or ...
Carmelina DiMondo
Carmelina practiced law in both public and private sectors for over ten years prior to employing her skills in a complex government business environment. A professional with a unique ...
Marius Dobre
Marius enjoys teaching as an opportunity for expanding knowledge horizons through integrated learning and application of theoretical concepts in real life contexts, supporting students’ professional accomplishment in their area of ...
Charles A. Dreezer
Charles' teaching style features multi-modal presentation of the material and combines a foundation of theoretical concepts with interactive real-world case studies to give students hands-on experience. Charles started his career in mergers and ...
Patricia Farrell
Patricia's professional experience started in the field of income tax, followed by a transition to controllership and human resources roles in both large public and small private companies. Her teaching ...
Paul Favaro
Paul has taught numerous courses in curriculum design, research methodology, organizational behaviour, and program/policy evaluation. He also conducts numerous professional training workshops and conference presentations in organizational development and evaluation. ...
Paul Fettes
Paul strives to integrate current real-world examples and industry context to enliven the learning experience. He encourages students to thrive by building their own insights and linking theory to daily practice. He ...
James Gaede
James encourages students to develop strong critical thinking skills, and strives to provide clear, consistent and prompt communication with students. His industry experience is largely in the energy sector where ...
Kristina Gaspar
Kristina’s teaching style is interactive. Using in-class discussion of current events, live cases and in-class activities to bring concepts to life, Kristina challenges the class to think critically, and explore ...
John Glen
John teaches five real estate courses with practical case studies. The cases are discussed and solved in group format. Several of the real estate courses are credits for real estate ...
Ian Gordon
Ian's approach to teaching comprises the following main elements: a) Student-centric to provide students with a relevant, tailored and responsive learning experience, b) inclusion of external stakeholders such as executives ...
Natalie Guriel
Natalie’s practical approach to teaching management involves using cases and news articles to help students connect textbook theory to real-life Canadian organizations. Natalie has taught a wide variety of business ...
Jeannie Haller
Jeannie uses a hands-on communicative approach as her teaching approach. She creates, develops and instructs university bridging programs. Her expertise is in academic listening and note-taking skills.
Charles (Chuck) Hendriks
Chuck is a passionate instructor and a skilled public speaker and educator. Chuck demonstrates a caring approach to teaching and delivers passionate and compelling lectures that are enhanced by the ...
Amanda Herold
Amanda recognizes the increasingly global competitive landscape, the rapid pace of technological innovation, and growing customer expectations require companies to innovate and respond to the market effectively and efficiently. As a ...
Kaz Higuchi
Kaz uses lectures to expose students to new concepts and methods. Bi-weekly assignments test the students' ability to solve specific problems using materials introduced in lectures. Through group projects, students ...
Vikram Iyer
Vikram's ideology of teaching is to ensure students take the subject forward. He tries to instill an organic method of learning so that they never memorize a concept but understand ...
Mohafiqul Kader
With large classroom setting of lower level, Mohafiqul prefers to be authoritative while in a small class of higher level he prefers students to be more participative. Mohafiqul has worked ...
Ben Kim
Ben prefers mixing up directing, discussing and delegating teaching styles to help maximize students’ learning effect. He likes to start off with big picture, focus on learning objectives, then go ...
Eytan Lasry
Eytan enjoys helping undergraduates and Internationally Educated Professionals (IEPs) think more critically about contemporary business issues, and to discuss current topics in strategic management. His industry experience is in real ...
Robert Levasseur
Robert's teaching style comprises lectures with time for discussion. He refers to his business and consulting experience as well as writings from business strategists. Robert has over 20 years experience ...
Robert A. Levine
Robert takes a conceptual approach to each area of law. He believes that if students have a basic understanding of the concepts, then it is easier for them to understand the various ...
Rudi M. Lof
Rudi is a JD/MBA graduate who practiced law at a national full service law firm before moving into education. He currently teaches post-secondary students at York University and (formerly at) ...
Malcolm MacTaggart
Malcolm was a General Manager at Microsoft Canada, during its start-up years and retired from corporate life in 2006. In 2012, he founded the Spark Angels, a private equity group, which ...
Steve Mallory
Steve brings years of risk management experience to York students, providing real business examples for discussion, review and consideration. He combines humour with an approach which combines part-academic, part-applied examples ...
Humaira Matin
Humaira teaches International Financial Management, Financial Markets, and Investment Management. She prefers creating an interactive learning environment where students parse financial market data to glean actionable insights. Her approach is to ...
DJ McCready
DJ sees teaching as more about coaching than tutoring. He taught as a graduate student, then 40 years full-time (Undergraduate and Graduate) and retired as Professor Emeritus Economics. He has ...
Andrew Moull
Andrew approaches teaching with the aim of bringing the realities of the professional world into academics and pushing students to tackle the challenges and problems facing contemporary society. His students ...
Narmin Multani
Narmin's teaching style is very hands on. She is interactive with students where she provides real examples for students to be able to relate and grasp concepts easily. She also ...
Taslima Nasreen
Taslima has been a contract faculty at the School of Administrative Studies since 2013. She holds a Master’s in Financial Accountability (MFAc) from York University. Currently, she is pursuing a ...
Timothy Ng
Timothy's teaching approach consists of the elements of learner-centered and application. He provides students with a personalized learning experience and encourages them to take an active role in the learning process. He ...
Alain Normand
Alain teaches emergency management communication. Communication often fails in emergency management so he aims to give students a fighting chance. He uses case studies a lot to teach from other's ...
Barry O'Brien
Barry is a seasoned professional having worked over 25 years in multiple senior executive roles in government, retail and higher education. His approach to education is to focus on bringing ...
Mike O'Brien
Mike says teaching is about bringing the literature to life and giving it perspective and meaning in the student’s life. Mike is an emergency management practitioner with over ten years ...
Taralyn Parr
Taralyn takes an interactive approach to teaching, encouraging students to think critically, engage in discussion, and relate course content to their own lived experiences. Taralyn’s overall objective is to encourage ...
Walter Perchal
Walter Perchal served both in the Canadian Forces as Senior Officer and taught a wide range of courses at York University. Over the course of his military service he: Commanded ...
Michael Rochon
Michael brings enthusiasm and passion for statistics in every class he delivers. He is able to convey advanced statistical and research-based material in an understandable way, applying them to current ...
Gaina Samarah
Gaina helps students discover meaning and value in the leaning material though practical application and insight. Her industry expertise comprises over 6 years of capital markets experience in the financial ...
Suzanne Seto
Suzanne Seto brings extensive knowledge and experience in the field of governance, risk management, and compliance from leading global organizations in the automotive industry in Canada. She developed and taught ...
Ruvani Shaubel
Ruvani uses a facilitator type teaching style with the focus being on encouraging student learning through class participation and group work; while drawing on student personal experience to encourage a deeper understanding and ...
Diana Sheikhman
Diana has spent her professional career working in the consulting industry, specialising in enterprise performance management and FP&A process review. Her teaching approach fosters student engagement and viewing lessons in ...
Robert Siddall
Robert Siddall’s career has spanned over 40 years of senior management experience, covering a wide range of strategic and financial functions, in both the private and public sectors. For example, ...
Pallavi Sodhi
Pallavi's teaching philosophy is to bridge the gap between traditional academic curriculum and the real world of business that goes beyond the classroom approach to learning. Her past and current ...
Indira Somwaru
Indira is a human resources professional and educator with over twenty years of experience in both business and academic settings. Her industry experience has included a broad range of senior human ...
David Soni
In his teaching, David integrates leading subject matter expertise and knowledge with practical real world application in today’s complex business environment. David has over 38 years of progressively responsible experience ...
Tony Stanco
Tony's teaching style is a friendly, personable style where he engages students to learn in an experiential learning environment. Tony has experience in a variety of industries including government, financial ...
Tim Storus
Tim is an Ontario called lawyer. His 40 year career spanned banking, corporate/commercial and securities law as a general counsel, corporate secretary, chief compliance officer in financial services. He holds ...
Andrew Temes
As a marketing practitioner, Andrew brings his experiences to the classroom to illustrate theory in the real world. He strives to make his classes as engaging as possible. The most ...
Roberto Umana
Roberto is a part-time faculty member at the School of Administrative Studies. He is a CPA, CA with over 14 years of public accounting experience. His focus is on advising ...
Walter Viguiliouk
Walter seeks to educate and share knowledge through interaction, empowering his students, and bridging academia and real world experience. He has worked for the largest and most prominent investment management ...
Yvonne Xu
Teaching in a professional faculty, Yvonne is constantly mindful of the need to ensure that theory is presented in a context that is meaningful to students, to connect the theoretical ...
Jason Yarmolinsky
As an instructor, Jason sees his role as making the material interesting, engaging and understandable. By the end of the term, students should gain a deeper appreciation for course material and ...
Troy Young
Troy approaches teaching as if he is preparing the students to come work for him. He highlights real-world applications and pepper his lectures with actual examples from his work experience. ...
Keith Yuen
As a teacher, Keith wants to help students understand the objective, purpose and principles behind each concept being taught while sharing practical examples from the industry. He believes that establishing ...
Victoria Zaremba
Victoria graduated in the first class at SAS to specialize in personal finance and has been marking, tutoring and teaching for York for roughly 10 years. She is a financial planner ...
Brian Zeiler-Kligman
Brian brings his professional insight into the classroom, moving beyond theory to incorporate and apply real-world examples to the course material. With his background in government relations and public affairs, ...