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Dr. Hassan Hakimian
Professor
Phone
+974 44541735Office location
C.00.061, Ground Floor, Minaretein Building
Dr. Hassan Hakimian
Professor
Educational Qualifications
DPhil
MPhil (Development Studies)
Entity
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Divison
Middle Eastern Studies Department (MESD)
Biography
Dr. Hassan Hakimian is a Professor of Economics, and Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Department (MESD). During 2010-2019, he was Director of the London Middle East Institute (LMEI) and Reader in the Economics Department at SOAS University of London. Prior to that, he was an Associate Dean at Cass (now Bayes) Business School, London, where he was responsible for Executive MBA Programs and set up pioneering programs in Shanghai and Dubai.
His research focuses on MENA economies, specifically labor markets, economic sanctions, inclusive growth, and the economics of Arab uprisings. He is the author of "Labour Transfer and Economic Development” (1990), co-editor of “The State and Global Change” (2000 with Ziba Moshaver), “Trade Policy and Economic Integration in MENA” (2003 with Jeff Nugent), “Iran and the Global Economy: Petro Populism, Islam and Economic Sanctions” (2014 with Parvin Alizadeh) and “Environmental Challenges in the MENAS Region” (2019 with Hamid Pouran). His latest work is the edited volume “The Routledge Handbook on the Middle East Economy” (2021).
Dr. Hakimian is a Founding Member and a past President of the International Iranian Economic Association (IIEA), a Lifelong Research Fellow, and a former Chair of the Economic Research Forum (ERF) Advisory Committee in Cairo. He currently serves as a Board member of the ERF. He is the Founder and Series Editor for the “Routledge Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa,” which he launched in 2003.
One of the programs he directed at SOAS at the Centre for International Education in Economics (CIEE) won the Queen’s Prize for Higher and Further Education in 1996.
DPhil
University of Sussex, UK
1979 - 1987
MPhil (Development Studies)
University of Sussex, UK
1977 - 1979
BSc (Econ)
London School of Economics, University of London.
1974 - 1977
- Economic Development and Growth in the MENA Region
- Inclusive Growth in the MENA Region
- Economics of the Arab Uprisings
- Human Resources and Labour Markets in the Middle East
- Economic Sanctions in the MENA Context
Director
London Middle East Institute (LMEI); Reader, Economics Department, SOAS (University of London): Leadership and oversight of LMEI, an interdisciplinary, renowned, specialist institute promoting understanding of the Middle East.
2010 - 2019
Associate Dean
Cass Business School, City University London.
2003 - 2007
Senior Lecturer in Economics
Faculty of Finance, Cass Business School, City University London.
2002 - 2010
Senior Lecturer in Economics
SOAS, University of London.
1995 - 2002
Director
Centre for International Education in Economics (CIEE), SOAS, University of London.
1994 - 1997
Lecturer in Economics
SOAS
1993 - 1995
Lecturer in Agricultural Development
Wye College (University of London).
1989 - 1993
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Economics,
North Staffordshire Polytechnic.
1987 - 1989
Visiting Lecturer in Economics
Business Management Department, Brighton University.
1982 - 1987
Books:
- Edited by Hassan Hakimian; London: Routledge, 2021.
https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-on-the-Middle-East-Economy/Hakimian/p/book/9781138099777
- Edited by Hamid Pouran and Hassan Hakimian; London: The Gingko Library (2019).
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/E/bo28415818.html
- Hemel Hempstead (UK); Boulder, CO, USA: Harvester Wheatsheaf and Lynne Rienner.
Articles:
- by Seyed M. Karimi, Hamid Pouran, Mahdi Majbouri, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh and Hassan Hakimian, Science of The Total Environment, 2020, 139053, ISSN 0048-9697,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139053
- The Economic Research Forum, Working Paper No. 1380, December 2019.
ttps://erf.org.eg/publications/from-oil-rents-to-inclusive-growth-lessons-from-the-mena-region/
- BBC History Magazine, November 2016, pp. 14-15.
- Iranian Studies, 44 (6): 851-74.
- CDPR Development ViewPoint (63):1-2.
- Commission on Growth & Development (2008), Working Paper No 26; World Bank, Washington DC. Available from: http://www.growthcommission.org/storage/cgdev/documents/gcwp026web.pdf
- Vanguardia – dossier, No. 24. julio/septiembre, pp. 70-76.
- Development & Change, 37(3): 571-97.
- Oxford Energy Forum, no. 64, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies: 5-7.
- joint paper with M Karshenas, Iranian Studies, 38 (1): 67-90.
- Encyclopaedia Iranica, edited by E Yarshater, Mazda Publishers, Costa Mesa, California, USA, 2005 (with Massoud Karshenas), ISBN 0-933273-86-X, pp. 110-19.
- Encyclopaedia Iranica, edited by E Yarshater, Mazda Publishers, Costa Mesa, California, USA, ISBN: 0-933273-84-3, pp. 105-10.
- Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 1 (1): 71-85.
- Ch. 4 in Hakimian and Moshaver (eds, 2001), The State and Global Change.