University of Guelph-Humber

Dr. Renata Guidi has taught at the University of Guelph-Humber since 2020. She is an Associate Professor at the Yorkville University in Toronto. Her areas of interest are Business Analytics, Performance Management, Business Decision Analysis, Innovation and Strategy. Dr. Guidi holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte-Brazil. Her Ph.D. field research was done under the supervision of the prominent Professor Stanley Lewis Engerman at the University of Rochester (USA). Professor Engerman is known for his quantitative historical work along with Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Fogel. Dr. Guidi holds a Master’s degree in Marketing from the University of East Anglia – UK, and a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte - Brazil. At the University of Guelph-Humber, Dr. Guidi teaches Introduction to Business Analytics course, as well as an instructor with the Faculty of Business at Humber College in Toronto.  As a researcher, Dr. Guidi has several publications in recognized international journals as well as she has just published her first book, Institutions, Efficiency and Brazilian Professional Education.

Mohamad Haniff has been an instructor in the Early Childhood Studies, Justice Studies, and Family and Community Social Services programs at the University of Guelph-Humber since 2007. Haniff operates a consulting company whose clients have included provincial and federal health ministries. Haniff is a fierce defender of human rights and was a conciliator with the Ontario Human Rights Commission, and previously, taught social work at York University, Centennial College, and George Brown College. He also taught case management at the University of Toronto and McMaster University. Haniff has worked in social welfare, correctional services (correctional officer, probation/parole officer, youth worker, staff-trainer), human rights and social policy at Queen's Park. Haniff has also worked as a senior policy analyst for the Ministry of Community and Social Services, where he was influential in the policy work that led to the passing of the Social Work and Social Service Work Act of 1998. Haniff has had Cabinet appointments to boards of the CCAC system. Haniff was contracted by the Ontario government to establish regulatory colleges.