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Linda M. Ambrosie
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Short Biography:
Dr. Linda M. Ambrosie is currently a Post Doctorate Fellow at the Haskayne School of Business. She has a PhD in Accounting from the University of Calgary and is a Chartered Public Accountant. Prior to her project here working on the social sustainability of the Banff-Canmore Corridor, she authored a book on the tourism industry, tax evasion and destination governance partly based on her dissertation. For more than a decade, she has researched the origins of Cancun and Cancún’s public sector governance, sustainability and taxation. To complete here dissertation on Cancún and tourism entitled "Tourism: Sacred Cow or Silver Bullet", in 2010 she was awarded a Graduate Fellowship from the Organization of American States, (OAS) in conjunction with Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the only Canadian OAS fellowship recipient that year. In 2011 she was selected by Alberta’s business magazine, Alberta Venture, as one of Alberta’s ‘Next Ten’. In 2013, she won Honorable Mention at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada for her paper also based on her Cancun research.
Full Biography:
Dr. Linda M. Ambrosie is currently a Post Doctorate Fellow at the Haskayne School of Business. She has a PhD in Accounting from the University of Calgary and is a Chartered Public Accountant. Prior to her project here working on the social sustainability of the Banff-Canmore Corridor, she authored a book on the tourism industry, tax evasion and destination governance partly based on her dissertation. For more than a decade, she has researched the origins of Cancun and Cancún’s public sector governance, sustainability and taxation. To complete here dissertation on Cancún and tourism entitled "Tourism: Sacred Cow or Silver Bullet", in 2010 she was awarded a Graduate Fellowship from the Organization of American States, (OAS) in conjunction with Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the only Canadian OAS fellowship recipient that year. In 2011 she was selected by Alberta’s business magazine, Alberta Venture, as one of Alberta’s ‘Next Ten’. In 2013, she won Honorable Mention at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada for her paper also based on her Cancun research.
