Rate My Professor Sara Anaraki

Dr. Sara Kamali Anaraki serves as an Economics Instructor at Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City, within the Business & Economics discipline. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics, as indicated in the college's official faculty list under ECON and field Economics. Recognized as new ECON faculty, Dr. Anaraki was highlighted during the August 2024 Academic Senate meeting and listed as Ph.D., Economics Instructor in the 2025 Commencement Program. Her role supports student education in economics at the community college level.

Prior to joining Metropolitan Community College, Dr. Anaraki was a PhD student and Sessional Instructor in the Department of Economics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. She taught ECON 2J03 Environmental Economics, conducting office hours in KTH 402. As a research assistant affiliated with McMaster's Department of Economics, she contributed to peer-reviewed publications. In 2012, she co-authored 'Projections of oil demand in road transportation sector on the basis of vehicle ownership projections, worldwide: 1972–2020' in Economic Modelling. The study employed the Gompertz model on data from 154 countries to forecast vehicle ownership and oil demand, projecting a rise to 14,748 million barrels of oil equivalent by 2020 under business-as-usual conditions, or 11,601 mboe with policy-driven fuel efficiency gains. In 2019, she served as research assistant for 'Cigarette consumption estimates for 71 countries from 1970 to 2015: systematic collection of comparable data to facilitate quasi-experimental evaluations of national and global tobacco control interventions,' published in The BMJ. These works reflect her engagement in transportation economics, energy demand modeling, environmental economics, and tobacco control analysis.