Goran M. Muhamad is an experienced economist who has a series of qualifications in economics, including an M.Sc. from the University of Nottingham, UK, and a Ph.D. from the University of Kurdistan Hewler. He has an in-depth knowledge of economic discipline contributing to teaching and scholarship activities. He has worked in various sectors, such as academia, consultancy, and management recognised for his positivity, highly organized, detail-oriented and collaborative. His research areas include Development Economics, Natural Resources Economics, Environmental Economics, Private Sector Development and post-conflict affected countries. His strength lies in the development of interdisciplinary empirical approaches for analysing issues where economic variables interact or intersect with non-economic variables of political, governance institutions, and agri-environmental resources. His research is internationally recognized and published in excellent peer-reviewed international journals and books.Nabaz T. Khayyat is an engineering economist with an MSc and a PhD in IT Engineering from Seoul National University (Seoul, South Korea), and a second PhD in Economics from Swiss Management University (Zurich, Switzerland). He works as a country director of AWA Organization for Sustainable Development in Iraq. He was Vice President for Academic Affairs, at Knowledge University, and the Head of the Economics and Finance Department at the University of Kurdistan Hewler. He has also worked in the Faculty of Business at the University of Liverpool in the UK. Dr. Nabaz has published numerous books and articles in international journals. He also supervised numerous students in their master’s and Ph.D. studies at the University of Liverpool and the University of Kurdistan Hewler.
