Mohamad T. Vaziri
Professor, Department of Accounting and Finance, California State University, San Bernardino, USA
Introduction
Dr. Vaziri served as a chair of Department of Accounting and Finance from 1986-1989. His areas of research are international finance, corporate profitability measurement, Latin American's external debt, international taxation, micro-structure of securities, foreign country evaluation and analysis, and the European monetary system. He has published 20 articles since he was awarded tenure (1989), primarily in the areas of international finance, and attended many international conferences around the world. He served as faculty advisor to the Financial Management Association and Students for International Business. His teaching areas are International and corporate finance. He is a founding member of International Trade and Finance Association, American Finance Association and BALAS-Business Association of Latin America.
Based on invitation by Institute Superieur de Etudes Financieres etd' Ingenierie (ISEFI) and CETFI of University of Aix-Marseille, France, he spent six months in Europe (1993), five weeks in 1994, five weeks in 1995 and five weeks in 1996 and worked in the Sale de Marche de Bourse de Paris (Stock Trading Room of Paris Stock Exchange). He also initiated and implemented the Exchange Program between France (ISEFI-CETFI) and CSUSB. He organized, promoted, selected and lead 27 students for 5 weeks of intensive training, workshops, cultural exchange and sightseeing. The students received official certificates of stock market operations, foreign exchange markets and global financial planning. The students visited Marseille, Nice, Nimes, Arles, Aix-En-Provence, Cassis, Cannes, Camargue, Avignon, and many visited Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark, England and Switzerland. Students earned four units of CSUSB credit during the 1996 summer term.
Brief Biography of Professor Mo Vaziri
M. T. Vaziri: BS: Accounting), BS: Economics, MBA: Finance, MS: Industrial Engineering and Operation Research, Ph.D.: International Finance, Post Doctorate, Corporate Financial Planning and Security Analysis
Dr. Vaziri served as a chair of Department of Accounting and Finance from 1986-1989. He is the director of Center for Global Management and Coordinator of Business Access and Opportunity program. He is also Director of Arrowhead Laboratory for Security Analysis (ALSA), which he has helped to establish. The ALSA is the first university security trading and analysis of its kind in CSU system. He has vast experience in working in United States and around the world. Based on invitation by Institute Superieur de Etudes Financieres et d' Ingenierie (ISEFI) and CETFI of University of Aix-Marseille, France, he spends five weeks every year in France working in the Sale de Marche de Bourse de Paris (Stock Trading Room of Paris Stock Exchange), and training the French executives.
He also initiated and implemented the Exchange Program between France (ISEFI-CETFI) and CSUSB. He organizes, promotes, selects and leads 27 students for 5 weeks of intensive training, workshops, cultural exchange and sightseeing. The students receive official certificates of stock market operations, foreign exchange markets and global financial planning from France and earn four units of CSUSB credit. He helped to initiate Business Access and Opportunity Program to insure access of under-represented students to CSUSB, facilitate their education. As a director of CGM, he helps to develop seminars on international Trade, first live videoconference between executives of Inland Empire and Mexico, international exchange of the students and business executives. He has published more than30 articles in refereed journal and books, primarily in the areas of international finance, and attended many international conferences around the world. He served as faculty advisor to the Financial Management Association and Students for International Business. He is a founding member of International Trade and Finance Association, and member of American Finance Association and BALAS-Business Association of Latin America. He is also a founding member of French CFP association which he helped to establish in France. He is an approved faculty for National Endowment for Financial Education and College for Financial Planning. He is winner of many national grants such as US department of Transportation and Energy.
