Areas of Interest:

• Natural Resources
• Agricultural Economics and Policy
• Rural Development

Education:

• Ph.D. Economics, December 1989, IOWA STATE UNIVERSIT, USA.
• M.Sc., Agricultural Economics, May 1988, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY, USA
• M.Sc., Agric. Economics, March 1983, UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM, Sudan
• B.Sc., Honors (Division I), July 1977 UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM, Sudan (Major: Agricultural Economics)

Experience:

• Emeritus Professor, CEEPA, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, November 2016–Present
• Secretary General, Higher Council for Environment and Natural Resources, Government of Sudan, May 2020 – November 2021
• Professor and Director, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA), Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, April 2001 – October 2016

Latest Publications:

• Abd Elbasit, Knight, Liu, Abu-Zreig, and Hasaan (2021). Valuation of ecosystem services in South Africa: climate change, land degradation and sustainable development, Sustainability 2021, 13, 11262. https://doi.org/10.3390/ su132011262
• Kyei and Hassan (2021). Distributional impacts of taxing water pollution in the Olifants river basin of South Africa, Development Southern Africa, DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2021.1932425
• Yami, Meyer, and Hassan. (2020). Price stabilization, spatial arbitrage and market integration: the experience of Ethiopia, Journal of Developing Areas, Volume 55, No. 2: 59-75