Omar Masood
Subject Leader Banking & Finance, Business School, University of East London.
ACADEMIC AND CONSULTANCY POSITIONS:
- Consultant/ advisor Turkish Government on Turkish banking sector
- Associate editor of "International Journal of Monetary Economics & Finance"
- Advisor to Saudi Monetary Fund on financial markets and regulations
- Advisor to Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Risk Management Department, Germany
- Associate editor of "Islamic & Middle Eastern Finance and Management"
- Advisor to Air Slovakia
- Associate editor: "Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies"
Dr. Omar Masood is the Subject leader banking and finance group at the University of East London. Studied Economics and accounts as a first degree, followed by a MBA in Finance, TLHEP Degree in Teaching in Higher Learning Education Program (TLHEP & SEDA), and PhD in Risk Management in banking. Dr. Masood has worked as a consultant with the World Bank and as a strategic fund analyst to several banks and other multi-national companies. His research interests include issues related to fund management, banking crisis, behavioural finance, Islamic banking, political risk and international finance. He is the author of a number of research papers which have been published in international journals and conferences.
RECENT RESEARCH:
- Omar Masood and Chris Stewart "Predicting business failure: Determinant of non-performing loans and banking costs: Turkish banking crisis" in the Special Issue of International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management. Vol 11, Nos. 1/2, pp 20-38, 2009.
- Bruno S. Sergi and Omar Masood "Quantitative Measurement of Economic Sectors Effect on the Non-0il GDP in United Arab Emirates" in International Journal of Trade and Global Markets, Vol 1,Issue 3, 2008.
- E.Clark, O. Masood and R. Tunaru "The Effect of Political Events on the Pakistan Stock Exchange 1947-2001", International Journal Investment Management and Financial Innovations, Vol 5, Issue 3, October 2008.
- Omar Masood and Roman Matousek "Efficiency and Scale Economies in Banking: Empirical Evidence from Eight EU Countries" (forth coming) to Journal of Banking and Finance.
- Omar Masood "Key Drivers Investment Decision Making Process for Fund Managers of Large a Bank" in International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, Vol 1, Issue 3, 2008.
- Bruno S. Sergi and Omar Masood "Political Events and Pakistan's Stock Exchange" in International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies, Vol 1, Issue 4, 2008.
- Omar Masood and Radu Tunaru "An analysis of Factors Driving the Investment Decision Process for Fund Managers of a Bank" Vol 8,No.2 December 2007 in The Business Review, Cambridge.
- Chris Stewart and Omar Masood "Determinants of Returns and Decision Making of Turkish Fund Managers : survey evidence from four banks" Vol 3, No. 2, June 2007 in International Review of Business Research Papers.
- Frank J Fabozzi, Omar Masood and Radu Tunaru "Discrete Variable Chain Graphical Modelling for Assessing the Effects of Fund Manager Characteristics on Incentives Satisfaction Managers and Size of Returns" Vol 13, No. 3, April 2007 in The European Journal of Finance.
