Dr. Michael Pretes

Board Member, The North American Institute

Michael Pretes, a native of San Francisco, California, is currently Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of North Alabama in Florence, Alabama. He holds a BA in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley, an MA in Political Science from Northwestern University, and a PhD in Geographical Sciences from The Australian National University in Canberra. He has held teaching and research positions at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, the North American Forum at Stanford University, and the Arctic Institute of North America at the University of Calgary in Canada, as well as at universities in Australia, Finland, and Hawaii. His research interests are in the fields of resource management, geography of finance, economic development, and tourism.