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Farid Novin (born May 1, 1947) is a Canadian economist.^[1] He served as Senior Representative of Bank of Canada in British Columbia and Yukon, from 1992 to 2014.^[2]

Novin was born in 1947 in Isfahan, Iran. His father, Mohammad Hassan Novin, worked as a parliamentary adviser to several prime ministers, including Hoveyda, Amoozgar, Gen. Azhari, Sharif Emami, and Bakhtiar. His mother Soroor Panahandeh was an official in the Ministry of Health in Iran.

Due to his father's various postings, Novin's education took place in multiple cities:

• Primary education: Semnan (Mhran Primary School) and Rasht (Farabi Primary School)
• Secondary education: Mashhad (Nader High School) and Tehran (Adib High School)
• Bachelor's degree: Economics, National University of Iran

After completing his bachelor's degree, Novin served two years in the military as a second lieutenant in Iran's Military Industries Organization.

Following his military service, Novin joined the Plan and Budget Organization of Iran as a budget analyst for higher education. His responsibilities included:

• Negotiating and determining budgets for the Ministry of Higher Education
• Overseeing budgets for various universities and research institutions, including:

   * Ariyamehr University of Technology and its affiliated research entities 
   * Pahlavi University of Shiraz
   * Universities of Mashhad, Tabriz, Isfahan, and Rezaieh (Urmia)
   * Newly established universities of BuAli Sina of Hamedan and Azad University
 

During this time, Novin also contributed articles to several periodicals, including Nagin, Khoosheh, and Zaman magazines. His writings covered topics in research, literature, and cultural criticism.^[3][4]

1. Postgraduate Diploma in Socio-economic Planning, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague,Netherlands (1976)
2. Advanced Diploma in Development Economics, Manchester University, England (1978)
3. Master's degree in Economics, Manchester University(1979), specializing in Monetary Economics and Development Economics
4. Ph.D. in Economics, Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada (1983), specializing in Econometric and Monetary Policy^[5]

His Ph.D. thesis, titled 'A Bayesian Choice Theoretic Approach to the Dynamic Adjustment of Prices: A Study of Price Behavior in Canadian Manufacturing Industries,' was accepted by Queen's University, leading to the awarding of his Ph.D. in 1983. ^[6]

He was Assistant Professor of Economics at Concordia University Montreal, and adjunct professor of finance at the Sauder School of Business at University of British Columbia. He has served in various departments of Bank of Canada as Energy specialist, Economic Projection, and Credit Analyst before taking a leading role in the Regional Office of Bank of Canada in BC and Yukon.^{[7] [8][9] [10] [11]}

In this capacity, he directed research and analysis on economic and financial developments in the region. He also played a major role in communicating the Bank’s messages to a variety of audiences and promoted an exchange of views on the economy and monetary policy. [12][13][14]

Apart from his academic papers,^[15] he is the author of a number of research articles published in the Bank of Canada Review. ^[16]

Novin married Guity Novin, a painter and graphic desiner. They have three sons Sal Novin, a US Health IT executive who died at 45, batteling brain cancer ^[17], Alamir Novin Ph. D. Assistant Professor ; School of Information Science College of Information and Communications University of South Carolina ^[18], and Alishah Novin, a product manager at Microsoft, Community Leader of the Year - 12th Annual NTC Awards - NTC^[19]