Shawkat Hammoudeh

Shawkat Hammoudeh is a Palestinian American citizen with a PhD in Economics from University of Kansas, USA. . He also had post doctorate courses in Finance at Drexel University, USA, in 1989-1990. After Graduation from University of Kansas, he joined Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research as an Associate Research Scientist in 1981. He then worked for OAPEC in Kuwait from 1983-1989 and was part of the Arab team that worked on the OAPEC/ENI Interdependence Model in Rome, Italy during the period 1983-1985. He also served on the Steering Committee of the Euro Arab Dialogue Project which was sponsored by OAPEC and the European Union in 1986-1987, and the Steering Committee for the project on exploring the future of the Arab Home Land executed by the Arab Unity Studies Center in Cairo, Egypt. During 1988-1989, he worked as a consultant with the World Bank working on Jordan’s Melody Energy-Economy in Amman, Jordan. Since then he has been a faculty member at Drexel University, where he was promoted from Associate Professor to Professor in 2004. His fields of specialization include OPEC oil pricing strategies, adjustments in commodity spreads, exchange rates and business cycles in the GCC bloc, stock markets in the GCC region and the MENA area, financial risk management and UC current account deficit. He has numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals and also serves as a referee for many journals. He is an associate editor of Global Review of Economics and Business Research and Brazilian Journal of Business Administration. He is a prolific researcher who has produced more than 55 articles in quality, refereed journals. He has cooperated on joint projects with researchers from many countries including Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, India, Australia, France, Vietnam, South Korea, Taiwan, Portugal. Canada and United States. He is also active in participating, organizing and chairing secessions for the Middle East Economics Association (MEEA) Chapter of ASSA and the Western Economics Association International (WEAI). He was the host of the 30thAnniversary dinner for the MEEA which took place in Philadelphia in 2005.