Tomas de los Santos, Ph.d.

Professor - Department of Economics and International Business

Dr. de los Santos is a Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and International Business. Before joining UCO in 1991, he taught at the University of Maine for three years after earning his Ph.D. in economics.  Prior to that, he was a Senior Economist serving as head of the Industrial Studies and Services Division of the National Bank of Foreign Trade of Mexico (BANCOMEXT), and an Economist at the Joint UNIDO-NAFINSA Capital Goods Research Project in Mexico, as well as other technical positions in the public sector of that country.

He is the author of several studies in the areas of international economics, macroeconomic policy, and industrial sector economic policy.  His teaching fields are international economics, economic growth and development, microeconomics, macroeconomics, as well as other economic courses.  Dr. de los Santos has a keen interest in observing first-hand economic development at work.  To that end, in the last few years he has undertaken field trips to China, Ireland, Central Mexico, and India. Dr. de los Santos’s current research interests are in the areas of economic development and international economics.

Dr. de los Santos earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Clark University, an M.A. in Development Economics from Boston University, and a  B.A. in Economics from Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon in Mexico.