Professor Ahmed Khalid earned his Ph.D. in
economics from Johns Hopkins University, USA. He joined Universiti Brunei
Darussalam in May 2015 as a Professor of Economics. Previously, he worked at the Bond Business
School as Professor of Economics and Finance since 2001. He also worked at the National University of
Singapore (NUS) from 1992-2000.
Professor Khalid has also worked with the World Bank (visiting
Consultant; the Planning Ministry of Pakistan (Advisor to the Minister) and
Washington and Lee University (visiting Scholar). His visiting academic appointments include Nanyang
Technology University, Singapore; Lahore University of Management Sciences
(LUMS), and Pakistan; and Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
(PIDE). He has also worked as a
consultant for leading institutions in finance and economics including the Economic
Research Institute for East Asia and ASEAN (ERIA), Limberg Institute of
Financial Economic (LIFE), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), CitiGroup, Haans
Seidel Foundation and the UNDP.
He is also Honorary Professor of Economics at
Bond University, Australia and Founder and Covenor of Global Development Forum
at the Bond University, Australia. He is
also a member of the U.K. based International Growth Centre (Macro Research
Cluster – Pakistan Chapter) and Bond Representative for the Quality Assurance
Program for Sur University College in Oman.
Professor Khalid’s research interests are in applied macroeconomics and
monetary economics, applied econometrics, financial crisis and financial sector
reforms with particular reference to emerging economies in East- and South-Asia
and globalization and financial market integration. He is Associate Editor of Singapore Economic
Review; member, Advisory Board, Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia (Malaysian Journal of
Economics); member of the editorial board of South Asian Journal of Global
Business Research and a number of other regional journals. His published papers and books are widely
cited in literature. His publications
include four books published by Edward Elgar Publishing Co. U.K.,
internationally refereed articles, chapters in books and numerous
consultancy/project reports, technical reports, working papers and conference
papers.