New Issues in Islamic Finance and Economics: Progress and Challenges

Hossein Askari

PROF. HOSSEIN ASKARI received a B.S. in CivilEngineering, Ph.D. in Economics and attendedthe Sloan School of Management at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Hewas an instructor of Economics at MIT, AssistantProfessor of Economics at Tufts University,Associate Professor of Economics at Wayne State University, Associate Professor and Professor of International Business and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and is now the Iran Professor of International Business and Professor of International Affairs at the George Washington University. He served for two and a half years on the Executive Board of the IMF and was Special Advisor to the Minister of Finance of Saudi Arabia. In the mid-1980s he was the director of a multinational team that developed the first energy plan and energy planning models for Saudi Arabia. He has written extensively on economic development in the Middle East, international trade and finance, agricultural economics, oil economics, and on economic sanctions. He has been an advisor to a number of governments,institutions and corporations.