David Robinson

Dr.

Economics
Humanities and Social Sciences

4270 or 3212
A313
Sudbury Campus

David Robinson is Director of the Institute for Northern Ontario Research and Development at Laurentian University. As a leading expert on Northern Ontario economic development, he was the first person to identify and promote the Northern Ontario Mining Supply and Service sector as our leading sector. He was also the first person to propose Northern Ontario School of Architecture. He has consulted for forest-dependent communities and written on the economics of community forestry. He is best known publically for monthly columns in Northern Ontario Business Magazine, and in Sudbury Mining Solutions, the trade journal for the local Mining Supply and Services sector  which he helped found. He does frequent interviews in broadcast media has been a guest on TVO's Agenda, several times and is often a featured speaker at conferences and events.

He teaches Game Theory and Natural Resource Economics, Statistics, and Econometrics. He has been active in developing Laurentian's new School of Northern Development and in promoting various projects in the community.