Ninos P. Malek is a Professor of Economics at De Anza College (Cupertino, California) and an Economics Lecturer at San Jose State University. He also taught Economics and Advanced Placement Economics at Valley Christian High School in San Jose, California for fourteen years.

He earned his B.A. and M.A. in Economics from San Jose State University and a Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University. Dr. Malek has been recognized for his teaching excellence at both the high school and college level. He placed second in the 2008 international Economics Communicators Contest in Las Vegas, Nevada sponsored by the Association of Private Enterprise Education. He was a 2018 finalist for Outstanding Lecturer at San Jose State University and he is the 2018-2019 recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award given by the College of Social Sciences at San Jose State University.

Dr. Malek has led several teacher and student workshops for various organizations including the Fraser Institute, Foundation for Teaching Economics, California Council on Economic Education/Bay Area Financial Education Foundation, California Association of School Economics Teachers, The Gus A. Stavros Centers for Economic Education at Florida State University and The University of South Florida, The Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University, and the Office of Economic Education at the University of Arizona.

Dr. Malek has been published in peer-reviewed economics education journals, Newsweek and The Mercury News.