👨🎓 Professional Experience
Position: Professor
Institute: Multimedia University, Melaka, Malaysia
Duration: November 1st, 2015 – Present
Responsibilities:
- Teaching Economics and Business subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate levels
- Supervising PhD, DBA, MPhil, and MBA final year projects
Position: Associate Professor
Institute: Multimedia University, Melaka, Malaysia
Duration: October 1st, 2010 – October 31st, 2015
Responsibilities:
- Teaching Economics and Business subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate levels
- Supervising PhD, DBA, MPhil, and MBA final year projects
Position: Senior Lecturer
Institute: Multimedia University, Melaka, Malaysia
Duration: June 1st, 2008 – September 30th, 2010
Responsibilities:
- Teaching Economics and Business subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate levels
- Supervising PhD, DBA, MPhil, and MBA final year projects
Position: Lecturer
Institute: Multimedia University, Melaka, Malaysia
Duration: September 27th, 2004 – May 31st, 2008
Responsibilities:
- Teaching Economics and Business subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate levels
- Supervising PhD, DBA, MPhil, and MBA final year projects
Area of Specialization: Development Economics
Research Interests:
- Development economics
- Productivity analysis (technological progress and technology transfer)
- Digital economy
- Knowledge-based economy
- Productivity and environment (green productivity)
- Economic growth and environment
- Economics and technology management
- Tourism and economic growth
- Microfinance
- Bioeconomy
🎓 Education
Ph.D. in Development Economics University: Universiti Putra Malaysia Completion: February 2005 Thesis Title: “Impact of Air and water Pollutant emissions on Malaysia’s Manufacturing Sector Productivity Growth” M.Sc. in Development Economics University: Universiti Putra Malaysia Completion: June 1998 Thesis Title: “Productivity and Performance of Malaysian Food Manufacturing Industry” B.Sc. in Agricultural Economics University: University of Alazhar, Cairo, Egypt Completion: June 1992
👨💼 Administrative Duties
Senate member of Multimedia University (MMU), MMU research and ethics, Board of Postgraduate and Students’ Disciplinary Committee Member (July 2015 – June 2019), Coordinator for Post Graduate programs (March 2006 – March 2014), Chairperson of Center for Globalization and Sustainability Research (March 2006 – March 2014), Faculty of Business, Multimedia University (MMU) research and development Committee, Panel of Expert for research grants, Member of the Institute of Postgraduate Studies (IPS) Coordination Committee (ICC) MMU, Other Working Experience, Research Assistant (RA) from February 1998 to August 1998, Store Keeper, Kenana Sugar Company Limited, Sudan during 1985-1988
📚 Teaching
Postgraduate Subjects: Advanced Research Methodology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Economics for Managers (MBA) Undergraduate Subjects: International Economic History, International Political Economy, International Economics East Asian Economies,, Economics of Integration and Regionalism, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Monetary Economics, Knowledge Economy, Malaysian and the Knowledge Economy, Research Methodology, Basic Economics, Management, and Accounting (for Engineering and IT Majors),Teaching Evaluation: Teaching evaluation for the subject taught in MMU averaged between 4 to 5 out of 5.
🎓 Postdoctoral Supervision
Completed PhD (Main Supervisor): List of completed PhD students provided. MPhil (Main Supervisor): List of completed MPhil students provided. PhD (Co Supervisor): List of completed PhD students provided. MPhil (Co Supervisor): List of completed MPhil students provided. In Progress (PhD Main Supervisor): List of PhD students in progress provided. In Progress (MPhil Main Supervisor): List of MPhil students in progress provided.