El-Komi, Mohamed

(Assistant Professor, American University of Cairo, Egypt) Mohamed El-Komi is Assistant Professor of Economics, American University in Cairo. Prior to this, he was Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Finance and Economics at Durham University, UK (2010 to 2012), where he was also the Deputy Director of the Center for Behavioral Economics and Finance. He was Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Texas-Dallas (2008-2009) and a visiting scholar at the James Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University (during 2010-2011). His research interests are in behavioral/experimental economics and Islamic finance. Mohamed’s paper, titled: “Experiments in Islamic Microfinance”, published in JEBO (Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization), was the first to apply experimental economic techniques to Islamic finance. Mohamed organized several conferences on Islamic finance to promote empirical research in the field and he is currently the guest editor of JEBO’s Special Issue on Islamic finance. Mohamed has MA from Warwick University, MSc and Ph.D. from the University of Texas-Dallas.