(Professor, New Orleans University, New Orleans, Louisiana) Hassan is a financial economist with consulting, research, and teaching experience in development finance, money and capital markets, Islamic finance, corporate finance, investments, monetary economics, macroeconomics, and international trade and finance. He has provided consulting services to various governments and multilateral development agencies. Hassan received his B.A. in Economics and Mathematics (Phi Beta Kappa) from Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota and M.A. in Economics and Ph.D.