Nir is a professor at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro (USA). He has authored 12 books and more than 200 academic articles, which have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese, and other languages. He has been ranked among the world’s top 0.03% researchers according to Elsevier BV and Stanford University’s “Updated sciencewide author databases of standardized citation indicators,” published in August 2021. Nir’s work has been featured by hundreds of media outlets, including BBC, Barron’s, Economist, Al Jazeera, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, Public Radio International, Scientific American, and Bloomberg TV. He has provided consulting services to the Asian Development Bank, the Commonwealth Secretariat, various UN agencies, and several private companies. His editorial roles include computing economics editor for Computer, IT economics editor for IT Professional, and associate editor for Electronic Commerce Research. He is a two-time TEDx speaker about the roles of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and blockchain, in fighting poverty. He is also responsible for the magazine's IT Economics column.