He holds a PhD and an MBA from the University of California at Irvine, and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the California State University at Fullerton. He is currently working on projects in the area of corporate governance where he is employing both traditional and evolutionary game theoretic techniques to examine the effects of agency costs on the shape of ownership structure in public firms. Prior to joining LAU’s faculty in 2009, Toukan was an assistant professor of economics at Chapman University.