Mohammad Hashem Pesaran

Who is Mohammad Hashem Pesaran?

Mohammad Hashem Pesaran is a British-Iranian economist.

He received his BSc in Economics at the University of Salford and his PhD in Economics at Cambridge University. Previously, Pesaran was Professor at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is presently the John Elliott Distinguished Chair in Economics at the University of Southern California and has held that position since August 2005. He also serves as the Director of the USC Dornsife Center for Applied Financial Economics Research. In January 2013, he was made a Distinguished Professor at USC.

Previously, he was head of the Economic Research Department of the Central Bank of Iran and the Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Iran. He has also been a Professor of Economics and the Director of the Applied Econometrics Program at UCLA, and Visiting Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna, at the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California.

He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and a Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics. He is the recipient of the 1990 George Sell Prize from The Institute of Petroleum, London, the 1992 Royal Economic Society Prize for the best article published in The Economic Journal for the years 1990 and 1991, and the joint recipient of the Econometric Reviews Best Paper Award 2002-2004 for his paper on Long Run Structural Modeling.