Dr Mamad Pourhosseini

Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance and Economics

Mamad Pourhosseini Joined Richmond as Adjunct Associate Professor in September 2007. His teaching included Introduction to Macroeconomics and Country Risk Analysis in 2007/08 academic year. In the academic year 2008/09 he will teach Introduction to Microeconomics and Country Risk Analysis.

He is an economist with particular interest in application of quantitative techniques and database management. Trained as an Econometrician, he is a specialist in statistical analysis for financial decision-making and risk management. He won the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce prize for the best Master’s student in 1976 and completed his PhD at Birmingham University Economic Department in 1980.

He has worked for more than twenty years in technical consulting for international organisations including the World Bank in Washington DC, International Labour Organisation and UN Development Program. Dr. Pourhosseini was previously a senior lecturer in Financial Econometrics at Brighton Business School for 4 year and an economic instructor for the UBS Bank in London and Jersey.

He is currently a visiting lecturer at Greenwich University and the course leader of the MA course International Business issues. He is also the course leader of the Business Communication and Knowledge Management unit of the Mountbatten Institute MBA program. His current research is in the area of automated trading, volatility modelling and Systemic Risk Simulation. Mamad is married with two teenage children. He is a Lilywhite member of the Tottenham Hotspurs Football club.