M. Kabir Hassan
Dr., Professor, Department of Economics and Finance, University of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Education:
- BA in Economics and Mathematics, Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota, USA.
- M.A. in Economics and Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.
He is a financial economist with consulting, research and teaching experiences in development finance, money and capital markets, Islamic finance, corporate finance, investments, monetary economics, macroeconomics and international trade and finance.
He provided consulting services to the World Bank (WB), International Monetary Fund (IMF), Islamic Development Bank (IDB), African Development Bank (AfDB), USAID, Government of Bangladesh, Organization of Islamic Conferences (OIC), Federal Reserve Bank, USA, and many corporations, private organizations and universities around the world.
He has more than 100 papers published in refereed academic journals to his credit. Dr. Hassan supervised 27 doctoral theses, and many of his students are now well placed in the academia, government and private sectors.
He is editor of The Global Journal of Finance and Economics and Journal of Islamic Economics, Banking and Finance, and Co-Editor of Journal of Economic Cooperation and Development. Dr. Hassan has edited and published many books along with articles in refereed academic journals. He is co-editor (with M.K. Lewis) of Handbook of Islamic Banking and Islamic Finance, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics (Edward Elgar, 2007), and co-editor (with Michael Mahlknecht) of Islamic Capital Market: Products and Strategies (John Wiley and Sons, 2011). He is co-author Islamic Entrepreneurship (Routledge UK, 2010). Together with Dr. Rasem N. Kayed and Umer Oseni, Dr. Hassan is currently working on a textbook development project on Islamic Finance to be published by Pearson.
A frequent traveller, Dr. Hassan gives lectures and workshops in the US and abroad, and has presented over 150 research papers at professional conferences.
