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Expertise:
- Political Economy of Middle East
- Energy (Oil) Economics, Political Economy of Climate Change
- Public Finance: Shadow Economy and Economics of Corruption
- Natural Resource Curse
- Development Economics
- Country Focus: Iran
Professional/ Work Experience:
- Junior Professor of Economics of the Middle East, April 2012-
- Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS), Marburg University
- Post-Doctoral Researcher, May 2010-May 2012 (TU Dresden & ZEW Mannheim)
- Researcher (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Nov.2009 –May 2010
- Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management, ZEW Mannheim
- Researcher (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Sep.2009-Nov.2009
- Faculty of Business and Economics, TU Dresden
- Main tasks: DFG project “Decentralization and corruption: A theoretical and empirical investigation”
- PhD Researcher (DAAD scholarship holder), 2006-2009
- Faculty of Business and Economics, TU Dresden
- Main research fields: Political Economy, Shadow Economy, Smuggling, Energy Economics
- Main tasks: Publishing outcomes of researches in refereed journals, presentations of ongoing projects in faculty seminars; international conferences and workshops, cooperation with other departments’ researchers to define and implement research projects
- Main Achievements: 2 publications in refereed journals before finishing PhD dissertation and annual extensions of DAAD scholarship
- Economic Expert and Researcher, 2004-2005
- Research & Capital Market Development Dep. of Tehran Stock Exchange(TSE)
- Main research fields: Corporate governance, Macroeconomic of Iran, Investment
- Main tasks: Cooperation with other colleagues to write the first corporate governance regulation draft for listed companies in TSE, writing reports about the key political economy events which affected TSE development, cooperation in preparation of training materials for investments in TSE, training presentations about investments process in TSE for NGOs and national factories’ employees
- Researcher, 2003-2004
- Project member of “Designing Evaluation Indicators for Employment Policies in the Third Economic Development of Iran”, Expediency Council of Iran
- Researcher, 2003-2003
- Project of “Evaluating the Legal Frameworks of Build-Operating-Transfer (BOT) projects in Iran”, Research Center of Ministry of Energy (MATN),Tehran, Iran
- Economic Expert, 2001-2003
- Transit & Special Economic Zones Dep. of Ports & Shipping Organization, Tehran, Iran
- Main tasks: Analysis of oil transit via Iran, identifying transit problems in the Iranian ports, writing economic reports regarding opportunities and challenges in transit of products via Iran, coordination with other port authorities in region, cooperation in organizing the first international transit conference (Iran-Transit 2002)
- Economic Expert, 1999-2000
- Project of “Evaluation of Budget System of Iran over the First & Second Economic Development Plans”, Sadr Amin Auditing Company, Tehran, Iran
Affiliation:
- Since 2012: Research Fellow of the Economic Research Forum (ERF), Cairo.
- Since 2010: Research Fellow of the ZEW Mannheim & TU Dresden
- International Institute of Public Finance
- International Iranian Economic Association (IIEA)
- Gulf Research Unit, University of Oslo (since May 2011)
- Vereins für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association)
- European Public Choice Society
- European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)
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