Dr. Hassan Hakimian is Professor of Economics and Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Department (MESD) at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. During 2010-19, he was Director of the London Middle East Institute (LMEI) and Reader in the Economics Department at SOAS University of London. Prior to that, he was an Associate Dean at Cass Business School, London, where he was responsible for Executive MBA Programs and set up pioneering EMBA programs in Shanghai and Dubai.
His research focuses on MENA economies, specifically labor markets, economic sanctions, inclusive growth and the economics of Arab uprisings. He is the author of "Labour Transfer and Economic Development” (1990), co-editor of “The State and Global Change” (2000 with Ziba Moshaver), “Trade Policy and Economic Integration in MENA” (2003 with Jeff Nugent), “Iran and the Global Economy: Petro Populism, Islam and Economic Sanctions” (2014 with Parvin Alizadeh) and “Environmental Challenges in the MENAS Region” (2019 with Hamid Pouran). His latest work is the edited volume “The Routledge Handbook on the Middle East Economy” (2021).
Dr. Hakimian is a Founding Member and a past President of the International Iranian Economic Association (IIEA), a Research Fellow and Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in Cairo. He is the Founder and Series Editor for the “Routledge Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa,” which he launched in 2003.
One of the programmes he directed at SOAS at the Centre for International Education in Economics (CIEE), won the Queen’s Prize for Higher and Further Education in 1996.
London Middle East Institute (LMEI); Reader, Economics Department, SOAS (University of London): Leadership and oversight of LMEI, an interdisciplinary, renowned, specialist institute promoting understanding of the Middle East.
2010 - 2019Cass Business School, City University London.
2003 - 2007Faculty of Finance, Cass Business School, City University London.
2002 - 2010SOAS, University of London.
1995 - 2002Centre for International Education in Economics (CIEE), SOAS, University of London.
1994 - 1997SOAS
1993 - 1995Wye College (University of London).
1989 - 1993North Staffordshire Polytechnic.
1987 - 1989Business Management Department, Brighton University.
1982 - 1987University of Sussex, UK
1979 - 1987University of Sussex, UK
1977 - 1979London School of Economics, University of London.
1974 - 1977Edited by Hassan Hakimian; London: Routledge, 2021.
https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-on-the-Middle-East-Econ...
Edited by Hamid Pouran and Hassan Hakimian; London: The Gingko Library (2019).
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/E/bo28415818.html
Hemel Hempstead (UK); Boulder, CO, USA: Harvester Wheatsheaf and Lynne Rienner.
1990by Seyed M. Karimi, Hamid Pouran, Mahdi Majbouri, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh and Hassan Hakimian, Science of The Total Environment, 2020, 139053, ISSN 0048-9697,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139053
The Economic Research Forum, Working Paper No. 1380, December 2019.
https://erf.org.eg/publications/from-oil-rents-to-inclusive-growth-lesso...
BBC History Magazine, November 2016, pp. 14-15.
2016The Middle East in London, vol. 12, no. 4, June-July 2016, pp. 13-14.
2016Iranian Studies, 44 (6): 851-74.
2011CDPR Development ViewPoint (63):1-2.
2011Commission on Growth & Development (2008), Working Paper No 26; World Bank, Washington DC. Available from: http://www.growthcommission.org/storage/cgdev/documents/gcwp026web.pdf
2008Vanguardia – dossier, No. 24. julio/septiembre, pp. 70-76.
2007Development & Change, 37(3): 571-97.
2006Oxford Energy Forum, no. 64, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies: 5-7.
2006joint paper with M Karshenas, Iranian Studies, 38 (1): 67-90.
2005Encyclopaedia Iranica, edited by E Yarshater, Mazda Publishers, Costa Mesa, California, USA, 2005 (with Massoud Karshenas), ISBN 0-933273-86-X, pp. 110-19.
2005Encyclopaedia Iranica, edited by E Yarshater, Mazda Publishers, Costa Mesa, California, USA, ISBN: 0-933273-84-3, pp. 105-10.
2004Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 1 (1): 71-85.
2003Ch. 4 in Hakimian and Moshaver (eds, 2001), The State and Global Change.
2001