Suhaib Riaz (English only)
Associate Professor of Management, Telfer School of Management
Professor Riaz's research focuses on international business, including challenges of global significance like political crises, new organizing and institutional changes.
"We can call this situation a complex causality with deeply intertwined political/economic angles. It is hard to understand the political and economic actions of the U.S. administration toward other economies without linking them to political stresses within the U.S., from the current Venezuela takeover to the trade/tariff conflicts and threats to take over Greenland and, even, Canada.
"It fits the actions by the administration against ‘outsiders’ or ‘others’ which fits the administration's overall agenda, both domestically and internationally, by deflecting blame from its own failures in addressing domestic structural issues. There will be multiple unintended consequences, which are always difficult to predict in advance."
Jean-Thomas Bernard (English and French)
Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences
jbernar3@uottawa.ca
Professor Bernard's expertise touches on the energy sector and includes the analysis of oil and gas prices. He can touch on the expected impact of the U.S.' invasion of Venezuela on the price of gas/oil in Canada.
David Gray (English and French)
Full Professor, Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences
Professor Gray’s expertise lies in the field of econometrics, macro and microeconomics. He can discuss the general economic ramifications of the Venezuela crisis on the Canadian and global economy.