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Hossein G. Askari

Iran Professor of International Business and International Affairs

Funger 405
2201 G Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (202) 994-0847
Fax: (202) 994-7422
E-mail: askari@gwu.edu
Homepage: http://hossein-askari.com/

Education:

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Expertise:

International trade and finance, Islamic economics, economic development in the Middle East

Background:

Professor Askari received his B.S. in Civil Engineering, attended the Sloan School of Management and received his Ph.D in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before coming to GW in 1982, he was a Professor of International Business and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, an Assistant Professor at Tufts University, and an Instructor at MIT. Askari has served on the Executive Board of the IMF and as a consultant to the OECD, the World Bank, the IFC, the UN, the Government of Saudi Arabia, and a number of multinational corporations.

Professor Askari's publications include New Issues in Islamic Finance: Progress and Challenges (September 2008), co-authored with Zamir Iqbal and Abbas Mirakhor; The Middle East Exporters: What Happened to Economic Development? (December 2006); Economic Development in the Countries of the GCC: The Curse and Blessing of Oil (1997); Third-World Debt and Financial Innovation (1991); and Saudi Arabia: Oil and the Search for Economic Development (1990). He is also the co-author with John Forrer, Hildy Teegen and Jiawen Yang of two books on economic sanctions, Economic Sanctions: Examining Their Philosophy and Efficacy (Praeger Publishers, 2003) and Case Studies of U.S. Economic Sanctions: The Chinese, Cuban and Iranian Experience (Praeger Publishers, 2003). Professor Askari has written professional journal articles on international finance and trade, on oil, on agriculture, Islamic economics and finance and on economic development in the Middle East, and a number of opinion-editorials for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune, Asia Times Online, Etemad-e-Melli, and In the National Interest. He has appeared on CNN, CNBC, BBC, BBC Persian Service, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg TV, Financial Network News and NBC.

Courses Taught:

Iaff 751 Economic Development in the Countries of the Persian Gulf
IBus 175 International Monetary and Financial Issues
IBus 271 International Business Finance
IBus 276 Seminar: International Financial Markets
MBAd 240 The World Economy

Last update: 11/18/2008