Miakhor, Abbas

(First Holder of INCEIF Chair of Islamic Finance, INCEIF, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) Mirkahor received his Ph.D. in Economics from Kansas State University in 1969. After teaching at various universities in the United States and in Iran he joined the staff of the Research Department of the IMF in 1984. He became an Executive Director of the IMF from 1990 until his retirement in 2008. He represented the countries of Afghanistan, Algeria, Ghana, Islamic Republic of Iran, Morocco, Pakistan, and Tunisia at the IMF. He is the author of a number of articles and books on Islamic economics and finance. He is the first person to hold the INCEIF Chair in Islamic Finance. His areas of interest include economic theory, Islamic finance and economics. Abbas Mirakhor served as an economist in the Research Department of the IMF and was formerly Professor of Economics at the Florida Institute of Technology. He has published in a variety of areas, including microeconomic theory, mathematical economics, and Islamic economics. He is the co-author of Essays on Iqtisad: Islamic Approach to Economic Problems (1989) and Theoretical Studies in Islamic Banking and Finance (1987). Mirakhor is the recipient of several awards, including the Order of Companion of Volta conferred for service to Ghana, the Islamic Development Bank Annual Prize for Research in Islamic Economics, shared with Mohsin Khan in 2003, the Quaide Azam star for service to Pakistan, and the IEEE Engineering Management Society First Paper Prize for “A Test of Relationship between Productivity, Satisfaction, and Ability in an R&D Organization,” with Vincent, in 1972.