Prof. Dr. Mohammad Kabir Hassan
Keynote Speaker, Editor-in-Chief: International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management.
Professor Dr. M Kabir Hassan is Professor of Finance in the Department of Economics and Finance at the University of New Orleans. He currently holds four endowed Chairs-Hibernia Professor of Economics and Finance, Hancock Whitney Chair Professor in Business I, Hancock Whitney Chair Professor in Business II, and Bank One Professor in Business- in the University of New Orleans. Professor Hassan is the Winner of the 2016 Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Prize in Islamic Banking and Finance. Professor Hassan received his BA in Economics and Mathematics from Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota, USA, and M.A. in Economics and Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA respectively. Dr. Hassan stood first in combined merit list in the Secondary School Certificate (SSC, equivalent to O level) in 1978 from Cumilla Zilla School, Cumilla, Bangladesh in 1978 and Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC, equivalent to A level) in 1980 from Cumilla Victoria Government College, Cumilla, Bangladesh in 1980, respectively. Professor Hassan was a Senior Fulbright Scholar for 2022-2023.
Professor Hassan is a financial economist with consulting, research and teaching experiences in development finance, money and capital markets, Islamic finance, corporate finance, investments, monetary economics, macroeconomics, Islamic banking and finance, and international trade and finance. Professor Hassan has done consulting work for the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, African Development Bank, Transparency International-Bangladesh (TIB), Islamic Development Bank, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Bangladesh Bank, the Central bank of Saudi Arabia (formerly Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA), Government of Turkey and many private organizations. Professor Hassan has been elected a Board Member of Ethics and Governance Committee and Education Board of the Accounting and Auditing Organization for the Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) for two terms (2000-2003 and 2024-2028) Professor Hassan served as the Distinguished Visiting Professor at the National University of Malaysia (UKM) and UiTM, Malaysia. Dr. Hassan is an Advisory Council Member of the World Awqaf and Zakat Forum (WAZF). Professor has served as Member of the Oxford University Said Business School faith-based investing initiative. He serves on the Christin Michelson Institute (CMI) wo work on Islamic finance in the Nordic/Scandinavian countries.