About

Mohamed Zahran is a Quantitative Economist specialising in Macroeconomics, International Macro-Finance, and Applied Econometrics. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA, UK), a Research Associate at the Economic Research Forum (ERF), and an experienced university educator. He holds a PhD in Economics from City, University of London and a Postgraduate Diploma in Academic Practice from City St George’s, University of London.

His research examines how uncertainty, institutional credibility, and financing frictions shape the transmission of monetary, fiscal, financial, and external shocks. His work focuses on monetary-policy credibility, sovereign risk, exchange-rate dynamics, foreign-exchange constraints, remittances, external financing conditions, and international policy spillovers. Methodologically, he combines structural and reduced-form macroeconometrics, DSGE modelling, time-series analysis, macroeconomic forecasting, and the identification of monetary, fiscal, and external shocks.

Dr Zahran serves as a reviewer for the Bulletin of Economic Research and the International Journal of Emerging Markets. He has held visiting research positions at the University of Texas at Dallas in the United States and the University of Victoria in Canada, and has undertaken advanced training at the International Monetary Fund and the University of Oxford. He has taught macroeconomics, econometrics, quantitative methods, economic policy, and political economy at universities in the United Kingdom and Egypt.