Faculty Biographies

Khairy A. Tourk

Office: DTC 416
E-Mail: tourk@stuart.iit.edu
Phone: 312.906.6537
Fax: 312.906.6549

Education

• B.S., University of Alexandria, Egypt 1959
• M.A., Vanderbilt University
• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1971

Affiliated Programs

Research Interests

• Japan's role in the economic modernization of East Asia, past and present
• Eastern and Western colonialism
• Evolution of the industrial enterprises in Greater China
• Restructuring of Southeast Asian economies

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Curriculum Vita

Professor Tourk teaches international business, economic theory, finance and international trade. He has served as a consultant to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Agency for International Development, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the Illinois Commerce Commission. He is a member of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago and is on the Board of Advisors of the International Association of Energy Economists. He has taught in the Middle East and China.