Salah Nusair is a Professor of Economics specializing in international finance, open-economy macroeconomics, and monetary economics. He earned his Ph.D. from Wayne State University (USA) in 2001, with research focusing on purchasing power parity and exchange rate dynamics in developing economies. Over the past two decades, he has built a distinguished research record examining asymmetric relationships among exchange rates, oil prices, economic policy uncertainty, stock markets, and macroeconomic performance in advanced and emerging economies.

His work has been published in leading international journals, including Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, and Applied Economics. He has been recognized among Stanford University/Elsevier’s World’s Top 2% Scientists (2024) and ranks in the top 10% of economists worldwide according to RePEc/IDEAS.

Professor Nusair has held academic appointments across Canada and the Middle East and has taught extensively at both graduate and undergraduate levels, particularly in international finance and macroeconomics.