Taimur Sharif, PhD, PFHEA, CMgr.

Introduction

Taimur has a profound career of working for a diverse range of universities in the UK, the MENA region, and South Asia for over 25 years. He is currently the Dean of the School of Management and Economics (SME) and a Professor in International Business and Economics at the University of Kurdistan Hewler, Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). Taimur is also a Distinguished Professor at Woxsen University, India. He is the first and the only Business and Management School academic in the KRI and Iraq at large to receive the highly prestigious Principal Fellow (PFHEA) award of Advance HE (formerly, Higher Education Academy), UK. He is also recipients of the Chartered Manager (FCMI CMgr., C.Mgr.) status from the Chartered Management Institute (UK) and the Chartered Institute of Management (Canada), and “Recognised Teacher Status” from Cranfield University (UK). He is currently an External Examiner at the University of East London (UK), Leeds Beckett University (UK), and MAHSA University (Malaysia). Earlier, he served on various leadership roles (such as Head of School, Faculty Director, Faculty Dean, Department Chair) in Birmingham Newman University (UK), Muscat University (academic partner of Aston University and Cranfield University in Oman), Abu Dhabi Alhosn University (UAE), Murdoch University (Dubai Campus, UAE), and so on. 

Education

• - Ph.D. in International Business and Economics, London South Bank University, 2011
• - MSc Coursework in Quantitative Methods in Economics, Stockholm University, 1998
• - MA in Economics, Aligarh Muslim University, 1996
• - BA Hons. in Economics, Aligarh Muslim University, 1994
• - PGCE in Further Education, University of Sussex, 2009
• - PGC in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education, Stanford University, 2016

Research

Taimur has over 70 publications in leading ABS, ABDC, and QS-listed journals, to mention a few, Annals of Operations Research (ABS-3, ABDC-A, Q1), Business Strategy and The Environment (ABS-3, ABDC-A, Q1), Technological Forecasting & Social Change (ABS-3, ABDC-A, Q1), Psychology & Marketing (ABS-3, ABDC-A, Q1), International Review of Financial Analysis (ABS-3, ABDC-A, Q1), Electronic Commerce Journal (ABS-2, ABDC-A, Q1), Journal of Cleaner Production (ABS-2, ABDC-A, Q1), Journal of Policy Medeling (ABS-2, ABDC-A, Q1), Global Finance Journal (ABS-2, ABDC-A, Q1), International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management (ABS-2, ABDC-A, Q1), among others. He has also presented in international conferences as Keynote Speaker, Invited Guest Speaker, Session Chair, Invited Panelist, and so on. In the recent years, Taimur has been working on topics related to stock, energy and bond markets; cryptocurrencies; investor sentiment; ESG, and so on.

Professional Membership

• Principal Fellow (PFHEA), Advance HE (Higher Education Academy), UK.
• Senior Fellow (SFHEA), Advance HE (Higher Education Academy), UK.
• Chartered Manager (CMgr. FCMI), Chartered Management Institute (CMI), UK.
• Chartered Manager (C.Mgr.), Chartered Institute of Management (CIM), Canada.
• Certified Management and Business Educator (CMBE), Chartered Association of Business Schools, UK.
• Recognised Teacher Status, Cranfield University, UK.
• Research Fellow, National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE), UK.