Simon Neaime

Professor of Economics and Director Institute of Financial Economics, American University of Beirut

Simon Neaime obtained his PhD in 1997 in Economics from York University, Toronto - Canada. He holds an MA in Economics from the University of Toronto, and both a Master of Money & Banking and a BA in Economics from the American University of Beirut – Lebanon. Dr. Neaime is currently a Tenured Professor of Economics and Finance, Chair of the Department of Economics, Director of the Institute of Financial Economics, and the Chair of the AUB President’s Council of Economic Advisers at the American University of Beirut. Dr. Neaime served as Associate Editor of the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions, and Money; Finance Research Letters; Research in International Business and Finance; Journal of Economic Asymmetries; And the International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management. In between 2017 and 2018, he was Visiting Scholar at York University, in Toronto, Canada, and has previously served as Chief Economist at the United Nation Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, as Technical Advisor of the International Monetary Fund, and as Regional Economic Advisor for the European Commission’s Macroeconomic and Financial Assistance Program for Tunisia and Jordan. He has numerous academic articles published in top field finance and economics journals on emerging economies in general and the MENA economies in particular. His most recent articles have appeared in Economic Modelling, Emerging Markets Review, Journal of Banking and Finance, Finance Research Letters, Research in International Business and Finance, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Open Economies Review, Journal of Economic Integration, and the Review of Middle East Economics and Finance. Simon has also published several textbooks on emerging markets Finance and Macroeconomics.