Mohammad Hashem Pesaran (born 30 March 1946) is a British-Iranian economist. He received his BSc in economics at the

University of Salford , caption = Coat of ArmsUniversity of Salford , mottoeng = "Let us seek higher things" , established = 1850 - Pendleton Mechanics Institute 1896 – Royal Technical Institute, Salford 1967 – gained ...

(England) and his PhD in Economics at

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. Previously, Pesaran was professor at the Faculty of Economics at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

and a professorial fellow of

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. He is the John Elliott Distinguished Chair in Economics at the

University of Southern California , mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist , established = , accreditation = WSCUC , type = Private research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $8.1 ...

and has held that position since August 2005. He also serves as the director of the USC Dornsife Center for Applied Financial Economics Research. In January 2013, he was made a distinguished professor at USC. He has been head of the Economic Research Department of the

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and the under-secretary of the Iranian Ministry of Education. He has also been a professor of economics and the director of the Applied Econometrics Program at

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, and visiting professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna, at the

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, and the

(USC). He is a

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of the

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, a fellow of the

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, and a fellow of the

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. He is the recipient of the 1990 George Sell Prize from The Institute of Petroleum, London, the 1992

Royal Economic Society The Royal Economic Society (RES) is a professional association that promotes the study of economic science in academia, government service, banking, industry, and public affairs. Originally established in 1890 as the British Economic Association, ...

Prize for the best article published in ''

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'' for the years 1990 and 1991, and the joint recipient of the Econometric Reviews Best Paper Award 2002–2004 for his paper on Long Run Structural Modeling. Pesaran is the founding editor of the '' Journal of Applied Econometrics'', and a co-developer of Microfit (versions 1–5), an econometric software package published by Oxford University Press. He has been a member of the board of trustees of the Economic Research Forum for Arab Countries,

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

, and

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over the period, and has served as a member of the

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's Council of Advisers for the Middle East and North Africa, 1996–2000. Pesaran has served as a director on the board of Acorn Investment Trust and Cambridge Econometrics, and is now honorary president of Cambridge Econometrics. In 1997 he became a charter member of the Oliver Wyman Institute, serving until January 2000. Between 2000 and 2002 he was appointed vice-president in charge of development and computerised trading systems at

Tudor Investment Corporation Tudor Investment Corporation is an American investment firm based in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm invests in both public and private markets globally. Background In 1980, Paul Tudor Jones founded the Tudor Investment Corporation. Comm ...

, Connecticut, US, and in October 2004 he was appointed as director of USC College Institute for Economic Policy Research. He has more than 200 publications in the areas of

econometrics Econometrics is the application of statistical methods to economic data in order to give empirical content to economic relationships. M. Hashem Pesaran (1987). "Econometrics," '' The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics'', v. 2, p. 8 p. ...

, empirical finance,

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, and the Iranian economy, and is an expert in the economics of Oil and the Middle East. His daughter, Evaleila Pesaran, is a Lecturer and Fellow in Politics and International Relations at Murray Edwards College at the

and is the author of the book ''Iran's Struggle for Economic Independence''. His son, Bijan Pesaran, is a neuroscientist at the Center for Neural Science at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, th ...

Selected publications

For a full list refer to his personal homepage at Cambridge University. * * * * * * * * *

References

External links

Personal Website
the Faculty of Economics, Cambridge University. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem 1946 births Living people British people of Iranian descent Iranian economists British economists Alumni of the University of Salford Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge People from Shiraz Fellows of the Econometric Society Fellows of the British Academy