Areas of Interest:

• Inclusive growth and economic diversification in oil-exporting countries
• Economics of the Arab uprisings
• Economic sanctions and blockades in MENA
• Population policy and demographic transition (including migration and labour transfer)

Education:

• D.Phil., Sussex University, UK, 1987 - Dissertation Title: Structural Transformation & Labour Transfer in Iran’s Economic Development, 1900-1979
• M.Phil., Development Studies, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, 1980
• B.Sc., Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, UK, 1977

Experience:

• Director, Middle Eastern Studies Department, College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar, 2019 - Present
• Director, London Middle East Institute (LMEI); Reader, Economics Department, SOAS (University of London), Feb 2010- 2019
• Associate Dean, Cass Business School, 2003 - 2007
• Senior Lecturer in Economics, Faculty of Finance, Cass Business School, City University London, 2002-2010
• Associate Dean, Cass Business School – Oversight and leadership of international partnership/off-campus programmes delivering innovative, modular Executive, 2003 - 2007
• Senior Lecturer in Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1995-2002

Latest Publications:

• Routledge Handbook on the Middle East Economy. Edited by Hassan Hakimian; London: Routledge (forthcoming, 2021).
• Seyed M. Karimi, Hamid Pouran, Mahdi Majbouri, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh and Hassan Hakimian (2020), ‘Saharan Sand and Dust Storms and Neonatal Mortality: Evidence from Burkina Faso’, Science of The Total Environment, 2020, 139053, ISSN 0048-9697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139053
• ‘From Oil Rents to Inclusive Growth: Lessons from the MENA Region’, The Economic Research Forum, Working Paper No. 1380, December 2019.
• Jianwei Han & Hassan Hakimian (2019), “The Regional Security Complex in the Persian Gulf: The Contours of Iran’s GCC Policy”, Asian     Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, October 2019; DOI: 10.1080/25765949.2019.1682300.
• Environmental Challenges in the MENA Region: The Long Road from Conflict to Cooperation, (co-edited with Hamid Pouran), London: The Gingko Library (2019)
• 'Seven Fallacies of Economic Sanctions', Project Syndicate, Op-Ed, 9 May 2019.