Mansur Masih
Senior Professor,
Finance/Islamic Finance
Web Site Address:
http://mansur.masih.net
mansur@masih.net
Updated: 18 September, 2022 22:27
Dr A Mansur M Masih Senior Professor, Finance/Islamic Finance Teaching Experience:
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Business School Universiti Kuala Lumpur Kampung Baru 50300 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Phone: |
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Mansur's Career, Teaching and
Research Experiences at a Glance
(including
international professional awards):
Dr. Mansur Masih is currently a ‘Senior Professor’,
Finance/Islamic Finance, at UniKL Business School, Malaysia. He
is also the 2022 IsDB Laureate
in Islamic Economics and Finance.
He obtained a Ph.D. (in ‘Applied Financial Econometrics’) from
Leeds University preceded by a Masters in Economics from Manchester
University. Prior to joining UniKL in October 2019, he was a Professor
of Finance and Econometrics in INCEIF, Global University of Islamic
Finance for 9 years and
held the Distinguished ‘Chair Professorship of Finance’ at the National
University Malaysia and Northern University Malaysia, and also,
Saudi-Aramco Chair, King Fahd University, Saudi Arabia where he taught
for 8 years. Before that, he also taught at the Australian (New South
Wales and Edith Cowan) and
British (Leeds) Universities for a total of
27
years. During all these years he
taught courses in three disciplines: Finance, Economics, and Applied
Econometrics/Statistics at all levels including the MBA and Executive
MBA levels.
He used to give an IT-intensive hands-on research workshop regularly to the Business Faculty at the Australian, Saudi Arabian and Malaysian Universities on “Recent and ongoing advances in econometric methodology for applied research”. Mentoring the junior faculty and leading a collaborative research team consisting of the faculty and Graduate students are his major contributions.
He has held Visiting Appointments with the Universities of Pennsylvania, Oxford, Rhode Island, Australian National, and Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Thailand Development Research Institute, and Malaysian Institute of Economic Research. Also, funded by Special Competitive Annual Research Grants of the University of New South Wales, Australia (where he taught for long 22 years and which is currently ranked 43 in the QS world University rankings, 2022) he made a number of field trips almost annually for twenty years to most South-East Asian and South Asian countries, as well as Hong Kong, China, Korea, and Japan.
His research publications: 156 refereed “applied” papers published/accepted (of which 145 papers are in European/American international scholarly refereed journals). On the econometric testing of issues in finance/economics, during the last six years (2020-2015), he has had 63 papers published/accepted in mostly top-tier ISI/SSCI/Elsevier journals (on top of 5 papers currently under revision and 25 working papers completed). A total of 121 published papers so far are in the top four publishers’ journals (including 93 ISI/SSCI Journals). A small recent sample: Physica A: Statistical mechanics and its applications, J. of international money and finance, J. of financial research, J. of economic behavior & organization, Emerging markets review, J. of international Fin. markets, institutions & money, J. of policy modeling, Economic modelling, Energy economics, J. of population economics. Some of these journals are ranked within the top ten finance journals in the world.
His international and national research rankings: REPEC Global rank 4 (top authors in Islamic Finance), REPEC Global rank 11 (top authors by field, South East Asia); REPEC ASEAN rank 4 (top authors by region); REPEC country rank 1 (top authors by country, Malaysia),); Research Interest score (higher than 99% of research gate members) (with total current ‘Reads’ being 111,527 running at a rate of around 1000 ‘Reads’ every month). Based on Citations 10,022 (Googles) so far, his Global rank is number 1 on ‘Applied Financial Econometrics’, number 2 on ‘Islamic Banking and Finance’, number 3 on ‘Islamic Finance’ and number 1 on ‘South East Asia’. His h-index is 45 and i10-index is 133 (Googles).
His conference papers, editorial board membership and Ph.D./Master supervision: presented 153 refereed papers at International conferences. He sits on the editorial/advisory board of 11 international refereed journals including 7 Scopus journals including 3 top-tier ISI/SSCI journals such as, ‘subject editorship’ of Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, and International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management. Also, acts as an editorial referee to 24 international scholarly refereed journals. He supervised 18 Ph.D. theses and 4 Masters theses so far.
His research excellence is reflected in the following international professional recognitions/ awards:
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Holder of
“ Saudi Aramco Chair Professor of Energy Economics”,
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia (2005 –
2008);
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Holder of
“Bumiputra Commerce Bank Chair Professor of Finance and Banking”,
Northern University of Malaysia (2005 -2007) (June-August);
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Holder of
“Tun Ismail Ali Distinguished Chair Professor of Finance and
Investment”, National University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 2004
(June- August);
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“Keynote
Speaker” at the Bi-annual International Business and Economics
Conference, Universiti Teknologi Mara, Terengganu, Malaysia, October
2012;
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“Keynote
Speaker” at the International Workshop of the Center of Research
Excellence in Renewable Energy, King Fahd University of Petroleum &
Minerals, Saudi Arabia, May 2007;
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“Keynote Speaker” at the Asia-Pacific Economics and Business Bi-annual International Conference, Penang, Malaysia, October 2004 ;
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“Keynote Speaker” at the Malaysian Annual Finance Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April, 2003;
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the ‘best paper’ award in Asia-Pacific finance conference (Bangkok, 2001);
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the ‘best paper’ prize in Global finance conference sponsored by Chicago stock exchange (Chicago,2000);
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the ‘best paper’ prize in PACAP/FMA finance conference sponsored by Kuala Lumpur stock exchange (Kuala Lumpur, 1998);
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the ‘best
researcher’ of the faculty of business award (Edith Cowan
University, Western Australia),1998;
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and the recipient of six international ANBAR awards for most cited papers in 2001, 2000,1999, 1997.
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recipient of the ‘best paper’ prize awarded by the Malaysian Finance Association every year during (2012 -2017).
Links to the Universities I have been Associated with:
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Professor Dave Allen's Page @ ECU
- Australian National Library Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)
- CO-OP Online Book Shop WWW
- Job Openings for Economists
- Times Higher Education Supplement
- Times Higher Ed (Job Search)
- The Economist
- Financial Times
- Far Eastern Economic Review
- Australian Financial Review
- The Australian (Higher Ed)
- The American Economic Association's (EconLit)
- Financial Economics Web (FINWEB)
- Econometrics Journal Online
- Resources for Economists on the Internet (RFE)
- Homepages 'Econometric' Software Providers
- EVIEWS
- GAUSS
- LIMDEP
- MICROFIT
- PC GIVE
- RATS
- SHAZAM
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