Edward L. Alban was born in Ecuador in 1938. He came to the US in 1952 and became a US citizen in 1961. He has been married to JoAnn since 1965, and they have two children.

He holds a PhD in Economics (1973) from the University of Georgia. He has spent his entire professional life in academe, teaching Economics, Statistics, and Quantitative Methods at Auburn University, SUNY Potsdam, Armstrong State University, and Savannah State University. 


Since retiring, he has traveled extensively in Europe and South America and
pursued his love of languages and literature.