Umaima Imran is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham Dubai. She received her PhD in Economics from Toronto Metropolitan University in 2024. Before joining the University of Birmingham, she was an Assistant Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada, where she designed and delivered undergraduate courses such as Applied Econometrics, Mathematics for Economists, and Economics of Growth, and supervised Master’s dissertations in Business and Economics.
Her professional background also includes serving as a Policy Economist at the Ministry of Finance, Ontario, teaching Macroeconomics as a Module Lead at Toronto Metropolitan University, and more than four years of teaching undergraduate economics and business courses in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, including at the Emirates Institute of Banking and Financial Studies.