Ali Emami's research focuses on assessing factors affecting Oregon's economic development and monitoring the competitiveness of different industries in Oregon and Pacific Northwest economies. He has analyzed, published, and presented articles on trade and markets, resource management, and impacts of industries on regional economies.

Currently, he is a principal investigator for several cooperative research projects with USDA concerned with: the Oregon agriculture database; the Oregon agricultural economic growth assessment model; global competitiveness of Oregon's agricultural products; the Pacific economies database; food demand patterns over changing levels of economic development in Pacific economies; China's economic growth and consumption patterns; impacts of foreign direct investments on the United States; and Oregon's economic growth.

• PhD, Oregon State University, 1988
• MS, University of Oregon, 1980
• BS, National University of Iran, 1972

• Economics of the public accounting profession
• International trade and finance

• Trade, Subsistence Consumption, Compensation and Resource Management: How Are They Related?
• Oregon Economy

• Emami, Ali. "Natural Resources and Sharing: The Role of Trade." Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, Seattle, Washington, 2018.
• Emami, Ali, and Richard S. Johnston. "The Survival of Cultures: Preemptive Consumption, Natural Resources, and Poverty." Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, Montpellier, France, 2010.
• Emami, Ali, Richard S. Johnston, and Raymond Emami. "Trade, Subsistence Consumption, Compensation and Resource Management: How Are They Related?" Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, Tokyo, Japan, 2004.
• Emami, Ali, and Richard S. Johnston. "Removing Trade Participation Constraints for Resource Exporting Countries in The Presence of Subsistence Consumption Requirements." Agricultural Policy Reform and the WTO: Where are We Heading?, Capri, Italy, 2003.
• Emami, Ali, and Richard S. Johnston. "Trade, Resources and Subsistence." Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, Wellington, New Zealand, 2002.
• Emami, Ali, and Richard S. Johnston. "Immiserizing Resource Management: A Two-Country General Equilibrium Model of Trade in a Renewable Resource." American Journal of Agricultural Economics Annual Meeting 79, Toronto, Canada, July 1997.