Managerial Economics

Aleksandar (Sasha) Tomic is Associate Dean for Strategy, Innovation, & Technology, and Program Director of the Master of Science in Applied Economics at the Boston College's Woods College of Advancing Studies. He also holds courtesy appointments as Associate Professor of Practice in the Economics Department of Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences and the Operations Management Department of the Carroll School of Management. Tomic has held academic and professional appointments at Mercer University, Wesleyan College (Macon, Georgia), Macon State College, the Jack Welch Management Institute, and Hendyplan, SA (Luxembourg). In addition to managing the MS in applied economics, Tomic leads strategic initiatives at Boston College, especially in areas of online education. In his career, Tomic has developed, grown, and turned around academic and research programs. He has written scholarly papers published in international journals and refereed books addressing topics such as the European Monetary Union (EMU), behavior of political agents, racial disparities in policing and sentencing, and impact of college athletics on universities reputation. In addition to his academic endeavors, Tomic has managed and participated in Eurostat-sponsored, complex, multi-year, multinational projects in economic statistics, business cycle forecasting, and macroeconometrics. He earned his MA and PhD in applied economics from Clemson University.