About

Mohamed Zahran is an Economist specialising in Monetary Economics, International Macroeconomics, Macro-Finance, and Applied Macroeconometrics. 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 received his PhD in Economics from City, University of London and subsequently completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Academic Practice at City St George's, University of London.

His research examines the transmission of monetary, financial, and external shocks through financial intermediation, expectations, contractual structures, and external-sector frictions. His work focuses on monetary-policy transmission, macroeconomic uncertainty, monetary-policy credibility, sovereign risk, exchange-rate dynamics, remittances, external financing conditions, and the distributional effects of monetary policy in both emerging and advanced economies.

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, USA, and the University of Victoria, Canada, and has undertaken advanced professional training in DSGE modelling and forecasting at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and computational methods at the University of Oxford.

He has taught quantitative methods, econometrics, macroeconomics, economic policy, and political economy across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at the University of Nottingham, Queen Mary University of London, and City St George's, University of London.