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

University of Salford The University of Salford is a Public university, public research university in Salford, Greater Manchester, Salford, Greater Manchester, England, west of Manchester city centre. The Royal Technical Institute, Salford, which opened in 1896, be ...

(England) and his PhD in Economics at

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

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and a professorial fellow of

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

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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

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from The Institute of Petroleum, London, the 1992

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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 Microfit is a List of statistical packages, statistics package developed by Bahram Pesaran and M. Hashem Pesaran, and published by Oxford University Press. It is designed for econometric modelling with time series data. References External l ...

(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,

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, 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

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, 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 an 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. 8 ...

, empirical finance,

macroeconomics Macroeconomics is a branch of economics that deals with the performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole. This includes regional, national, and global economies. Macroeconomists study topics such as output (econ ...

, and the Iranian economy, and is an expert in the economics of

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and the Middle East. His daughter, Evaleila Pesaran, is a Lecturer and Fellow in Politics and International Relations at

Murray Edwards College Murray Edwards College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1954 as New Hall and renamed in 2008. The name honours a gift of £30 million by alumna Ros Edwards and her husband Steve, and the firs ...

at the

and is the author of the book ''Iran's Struggle for Economic Independence''. His son, Bijan Pesaran, is the Robert A. Groff Professor of Teaching and Research in Neurosurgery II, and Professor of Neuroscience and Bioengineering at the

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 Econometricians