Areas of Interest:

• Financial markets
• Energy markets
• Law and society

Education:

• Ph.D., Economics, Northwestern University, 1988
• M.Sc., Statistics, Stanford University, 1985
• M.A., Economics, The American University in Cairo, 1985
• B.A. Economics, The American University in Cairo, 1983

Experience:

• Professor of Economics and Statistics, Rice University, (01/1998 – present)
• Chair of Islamic Economics, Finance & Management, Rice University, (01/1998 – present)
• Will Clayton Fellow in International Economics, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, (01/2010 – 12/2011)
• Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, The American University in Cairo,  (07/2014 – 06/2015)

Latest Publications:

• “Rising Inequality and DeDemocratization,” (with Hany AbdelLatif),Middle East Development Journal, in press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/17938120.2020.1720333
• “Financial Liquidity, Geopolitics, and Oil Prices,” (with Hany AbdelLatif), Energy Economics, in press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104482
• “Antecedents of War: The Geopolitics of Low Oil Prices and Decelerating Financial Liquidity,” (with Hany AbdelLatif), Applied Economics Letters, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2018.1494802