More than twenty years of academic, research, and practical experience in economies of newly independent and developing countries.
Research and consulting for governments, universities, and companies.
Major areas: general economics, transition economies, economic development, international trade, cost-benefit analysis, project evaluation.

• Candidate of Sciences, Economics: Industrial Organization & Planning (Ph.D. equivalent)

1985, USSR Academy of Sciences - Moscow, Russia

• Dissertation: Prospects for Alternative (Non-Petroleum) Fuels and Products

• Master of Science, Economics

1995, Iowa State University - Ames, Iowa, USA

• Inter-Republic Trade in the Former Soviet Union

• Bachelor's, Economics/Engineering

1978, Azerbaijan Oil & Chemistry Institute - Baku, Azerbaijan, USSR

• Thesis: Cooperation and Concentration in Chemical Industry of Azerbaijan

• January 2003 - To Date
Associate Professor,
Skyline College, Sharjah, UAE
• Teach macro- and microeconomics, managerial and business economics, quantitative methods. Coordinate and develop curricula in economics, finance, accounting cources. Advise students.

• March 1999 - February 2002
Consultant
United Nations Development Programme / Government of Kuwait, Kuwait-City, Kuwait
Consulted Ministries of Planning and Finance of Kuwait under the UNDP project "Strengthening the National Planning System". Developed financial and statistical models, reporting formats, documentation, and guidelines for public / private projects' appraisal / evaluation. Developed and conducted training seminars for professional staff in conducting research, project evaluation, feasibility studies, and investment decisions. Designed a new UNDP project to reform the Offset Department.

• June 1996 - August 1998
Chief Economist
Synergy International / Ministry of Finance of Kuwait, Kuwait-City, Kuwait
Consulted Counter Trade Offset Program (OPD), Ministry of Finance, State of Kuwait.
Provided economic, social and financial evaluations of international Offset Business Ventures, as well as economic / econometric estimations of their impacts on the economy of Kuwait. Designed and introduced several models in support of these functions. One of them, the Evaluation Model, is now a standard tool in the everyday practice of the Offset Program of Kuwait. Provided OPD with reports and recommendations on policy issues. Developed and conducted seminars for professional staff members.

• August 1995 - April 1996
Consultant / Lecturer
Iowa State University / Nizhni-Novgorod State Agricultural Academy Project,
Ames, Iowa, USA / Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia
• Consulted joint seminars and workshops on development of private sector in various areas of Russian agricultural business.
• Lectured principles of macro- and microeconomics to students and adult professionals. Introduced curriculum revisions and new approaches to teaching.

• September 1992 - July 1995
Edmund Muskee Fellow, Visiting Scholar, Research Assistant
• International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX), USA,
• Economics Institute, Colorado University, Boulder, Colorado, USA
• Department of Economics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA

Was competitively selected to visit the U.S. academia as an Edmund Muskie Fellow. Took some graduate classes, which applied towards a Master of Science degree in Economics. Later in the program conducted independent research for the Center of Agricultural and Rural Development, Department of Economics, Iowa State University. Main results are presented in a paper on application of gravity models towards inter-republic trade in the countries of the former Soviet Union.

• August 1990 - September 1992
Assistant Professor (Docent)
Department of Economics, Yerevan Institute of Foreign Economic Relations & Management, Yerevan, Armenia
Department of International Economics, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia
• Lectured undergraduate courses on Economics, International Trade, International Economics and International Finance Principles,
• Research on Foreign Economic Relations of Armenia

• January 1989 - August 1992
Research Associate
The Economics Institute, Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
• Research: Armenia's market transition - new financial, fiscal, and foreign trade systems.
• Regional natural resources' valuation and efficient utilization.

• January 1987 - January 1989
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics, CR and Trade Unions' College, Baku (Azerbaijan)

• Lectured on the principles of the Soviet economy.

• Developed curriculum and teaching materials.

• Research on natural resources valuation under market transition.

• August 1978 - January 1987
Research Associate,
Department of Economic R & D, Petrochemical Branch Institute, Baku, Azerbaijan
• Economic efficiency, project evaluation, and feasibility studies of new technologies in oil processing and petrochemical industry.

• December 1981 - December 1985
Graduate Scholar (Aspirant)
USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
• Research: economics, new technologies, and feasibility of alternative fuels (non-oil sources) for petrochemical production.

Overall four books and about 30 papers, articles, proceedings, and synopsis. Among them:

Public Project Evaluation and Selection ,

Skyline Business Journal, Skyline College , v.2, #1, Sharjah, UAE, 2005 ( with Dr. Sudhakar Kota );
      (also included on the GDNet’s Knowledge Base and republished by the The Economics Web Institute )

UAE: Financial Development and Economic Growth ,

Skyline Business Journal, Skyline College , v.1, #2, Sharjah, UAE, 2005 ( with Dr. Nizar M. F. Sahawneh );
      (also included on the GDNet’s Knowledge Base )

Gravity Models for Inter-Republic Trade,

Accepted for publication in Voprosy Ekonomiki Journal, Moscow;

New Financial, Fiscal, and Monetary System for Armenia,

"Banker", Yerevan, 1992, No.2 (with V.Gabrielian);

Problems of Financial Reform in Armenia,

"Business Armenia", Yerevan, 1992, No.2,3;

Prospects for Foreign Economic Relations of the Republic of Armenia,

"National Economy of Armenia", Yerevan, 1992, No.5, 6 (with T.Torossian);

National Currency - Pros and Cons,

"Republic of Armenia", Yerevan, 01.08.92;

Conditions to Attract Foreign Capital,

"Yerkir", Yerevan, 09/28/91 (with T.Torossian);

Production Cost, Profitability, and Pricing (Student's Manual),

CP Higher Education School, Baku, 1989, 23 pp. (with Z.Mamedov and Sh.Muradova);

Economic Glossary of Perestroika" (Student's Manual),

CP College, Baku, 1988, 21 pp. (with Z.Mamedov).

• To Date: Member of Board of Experts, The Economics Web Institute
• To Date: Researcher, The Global Development Network (GDN)
• To Date: Council Member, Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG Councils)
• To Date: Listed in the "Who’s Who in the World", 20th Edition, 2003
• 1999-2002: Consultant UNDP-Kuwait
• 1995-1998: Member of European Economic Association
• 1995-1996: Consultant Lecturer, Iowa State University, College of Business - Nizhnii Novgorod State Agricultural Academy Partnership Project, US Agency for International Development (USAID)
• 1993-1995: Vice-President, US/Armenian Economic Scholarly Exchange, International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX), USA
• 1993-1996: Member of American Economic Association
• 1992-1994: Edmund Muskee Fellow, Edmund Muskee Fellow, IREX, USA
• 1989-1993: Member of Armenian Economists' Union
• 1985 - 1989: Member of the USSR "Znanie" (Knowledge) Society
• 1978 - 1989: Member of the USSR Trade Union of Culture, Science & Education Workers
• A number of honorary diploma and letters of approval from places of study and employment

• General: DOS, MS Windows & MS Office, Unix, Internet/HTML
• Word processing: Word Perfect, Word (English/Russian)
• Spreadsheets: Lotus, Excel
• Database: Access, D-Base
• Graphics: Paint Shop Pro, Harvard Graphics
• Statistics: Shazam, TSP, SPSS
• Professional: Comfar, GAMS

• English, Russian, Armenian - excellent;
• Azeri-Turkish - basic;
• Understand most of Slavic languages of Central & Eastern Europe and CIS.

Date of Birth: November 11, 1956;
Nationalities: USSR Ь Armenia , Canada

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