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Registration Please register online, or email CIBFR@nottingham.edu.my This event is by invitation only. Please RSVP before 24 October 2014 (Friday).
Speaker biodataProfessor Dr Abbas Mirakhor joined INCEIF following a long and distinguished career as an economist and academician with considerable contribution in the field of Islamic economics, finance and banking. He is a graduate of the Kansas State University, USA, where he received his Bachelor, Master and PhD Degrees in Economics. Dr Abbas has worked as a Professor of Economics at the University of Alabama, Alabama A&M University, and the Florida Institute of Technology. In 1984, he joined the IMF in Washington DC as an economist. He spent 24 years with the IMF, serving as the organisation's Executive Director and Dean of the Executive Board, retiring in 2008. He was conferred the Order of Companion of Volta for service to Ghana by the President of Ghana in 2005. In 2003, he received the Islamic Development Bank Annual Prize for Research in Islamic Economics, which he shared with Dr Mohsin Khan, another well-known economist at IMF. The President of Pakistan conferred him the Quaid-e Azam star for service to Pakistan in 1997. He has published books, papers and research articles on a wide range of areas including microeconomic theory, mathematical economics and Islamic economics.
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