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Dr. M. Kabir Hassan is a financial economist with consulting, research and teaching experience in developing finance, money and capital markets, corporate finance, investments, monetary economics, macroeconomics and international trade and finance. He has published five books, and over 70 articles in refereed academic journals. He has presented over 100 research papers in professional conferences worldwide and has also presided over many sessions at professional and international seminars. Dr. Hassan has great experience in the privatising process of public sector industries. He worked on the impact of globalisation of financial markets in developing countries, privatisation of commercial banks in developing countries, impact of trade liberalisation on the efficiency of industry, efficiency and performance analysis of commercial banks, financial sector reform in developing countries, Euro impact of the MENA countries, and regional economic integration either as consultant of the USAID, the World Bank, IDB, ICDT, Government of Bangladesh, USIA and the Nathan Associates..

Dr. Hassan earned a B.A. in mathematics and economics with Phi Beta Kappa honors, an M.A. in Economics and a Ph.D. in finance in 1990 from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. Hassan has been teaching at the University of New Orleans, Lousiana, USA. He also taught at Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA, American University in Beirut, Lebanon and North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. His primary teaching responsibilities are in the area of financial markets and institutions, corporate finance and international finance. He teaches commercial bank management and financial management at the MBA level, financial markets and institutions and seminars in markets and institutions at the Ph.D. level.