Farhad Niami, Ph.D.

Farhad Niami serves as Chief Financial Officer/Chief Economist and prepares strategies and documents presenting economic and revenue information used by clients as forecasting and estimating tools for policy analysis and operations. Dr. Niami’s astuteness in assessing financial, political and economic aspects of potential investments and legislation has led him to earn millions of dollars in grant and research contracts. His background in quantitative analysis and statistics as well as his published and presented fiscal and economic studies were factors in his former appointment as State Economist for the State of Louisiana.

Dr. Niami earned his degrees from Oregon State University and University of Oregon with the distinction of earning an international education scholarship towards both degrees. In addition, he is committed to staying current on new fiscal methodologies for domestic and international projects and has incorporated these models in the array of economic and finance courses he teaches university students.