An interview with Dr A Mansur M Masih (Canberra resident) part 1 of 3
Dr Mansur Masih is currently Professor of Finance and Econometrics at INCEIF, the Global University of Islamic Finance, Malaysia. He obtained a Ph .D (in Applied Financial Econometrics) from Leeds University preceded by a Masters in Economics from Manchester University. Prior to joining Global University, he taught at the Australian (New South Wales and Edith Cowan) and British (Leeds) Universities for a total of 27 years and King Fahd University, Saudi Arabia for 8 years. During all these years he taught courses in three disciplines: Finance, Economics, and Applied Econometrics/Statistics at all levels including the MBA and Executive MBA levels.
He used to give an IT-intensive hands-on research workshop regularly to the Business Faculty at the Australian, Saudi Arabian and Malaysian Universities on “Recent and ongoing advances in econometric methodology for applied research”. Mentoring the junior faculty and leading a collaborative research team are his major contributions.
He has held Visiting Appointments with the Universities of Pennsylvania, Oxford, Rhode Island, Australian National, and Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Thailand Development Research Institute, and Malaysian Institute of Economic Research. Also, funded by Special Competitive Annual Research Grants of the University of New South Wales, Australia (where he taught for long 22 years) he made a number of field trips almost annually for twenty years to most South-East Asian and South Asian countries, as well as Hong Kong, China, Korea, and Japan.
He has had 92 refereed “applied” papers published/accepted (of which 81 papers are in European/American international scholarly refereed journals). Another 31 working papers applied to issues in Islamic Finance are completed. A small recent sample: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its applications, J. of International money and finance, J. of Financial research, J. of Business finance & accounting, Emerging Markets Review, Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), J. of Policy modeling, Economic modelling, Energy Economics, J. of Population economics. Some of these journals are ranked within the top ten finance journals in the world. Also, he has had more than 3500 citations so far.
He presented 120 refereed papers at International conferences. He sits on the editorial/advisory board of 12 international refereed journals and acts as an editorial referee to 16 international refereed journals.
more details about Dr Masih at http://www.inceif.org/faculty-members/prof-dr-abul-mansur-mohammed-masih/ or http://mansur.masih.net/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjbEGPboGxs
Host: Antara Aiyana Masih
Guest: Dr A. Mansur M. Masih, Professor of Finance & Econometrics
Arrangement: Muhit Masih Babu & Mahin Masih
Camera: Rafiqa Manik Mona, Shaheer Manik Rohan & Muhit Masih Babu
Video Edit: Shahadat Manik
Interview date: 5 August 2014
Producer: Shahadat Manik
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