About Me

I earned my Ph.D. in Economics from York University in June 2007. My dissertation, “Essays on Mixed Oligopoly,” was completed under the guidance of Professors Mahmudul Anam, Shin-Hwan Chiang, and Alfred Haug.

Following my graduation from York University, I joined the Qatar Central Bank (QCB) as a Research Economist in December 2007. Concurrently, I served as an Economic Consultant for the Qatar National Food Security Programme from February 2010 to August 2012. My time with the QCB concluded in June 2013, after which I experienced a brief period of unemployment from July to December 2013. I then joined Fikra Research & Policy, based in Qatar, as a Senior Research Fellow, a position I held from January 2014 to October 2016.

Interestingly, for a significant portion of my tenure at Fikra, I served as a non-resident fellow after relocating to Bangladesh in April 2014. In January 2015, I joined East West University's Department of Economics as an Associate Professor. I was Chair of the Department of Economics from September 2016 to April 2019 before becoming a Professor of Economics in July 2019.

My work has been published in various journals including the Journal of Population Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Energy Economics, Global Environmental Change, Economics of Transition, Journal of Forecasting, and Journal of Time Series Econometrics. Currently, my research is focused on regional disparity, energy markets, and applied time series econometrics.

I am available for lectures, discussions, or interviews about economics. You can reach me via email at syed.basher@gmail.com. 

• Ph.D. in Economics, York University, Toronto. 2007

  •     Dissertation: Essays on Mixed Oligopoly

• MA in Economics, York University, Toronto, 2001

• M.Sc. in Economics, North South University, Dhaka, 1999

• BBA with Finance, North South University, Dhaka, 1996 

• 2019 – Date: Professor, Department of Economics, East West University, Dhaka

• 2015 – Date: Senior Asian Fellow, Asian Center for Development, Dhaka

• 2015 – 2019: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, East West University, Dhaka

• 2016 – 2019: Chairperson, Department of Economics, East West University, Dhaka

• 2014 – 2016: Senior Research Fellow, Fikra Research & Policy, Qatar

• 2014: Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics, Independent University, Dhaka

• 2010 – 2012: Economic Consultant, Qatar National Food Security Programme

• 2007 – 2013: Research Economist, Department of Research & Monetary Policy, Qatar Central Bank

• 2010 – 2013: Research Fellow, Economic Research Group, Dhaka

• 2005 – 2007: Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Guelph, Guelph

• 2002 – 2007: Lecturer, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto

• 2002 – 2004: Research Assistant, Department of Economics, York University, Toronto

• 2000 – 2007: Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, York University, Toronto

• 1998 – 2000: Research Associate, Institute of Development, Environment and Strategic, Studies (IDESS), North South University, Dhaka

• 1996 – 1998: Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, North South University, Dhaka