Draft:Seyed Hossein Mirjalili

Seyed Hossein Mirjalili is an Iranian economist. He is Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics of the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran. He served as Senior Advisor at the World Bank Group in the USA. As visiting lecturer, he taught” Topics on Money and Banking” for graduate students at the University of Birmingham in UK (2006,2007,2008). He also worked for the Ministry of commerce in Iran mostly at the Plenipotentiary trade representative for accession to the WTO (1999-2005) and worked for the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance as an economist (1998- 1993). As a scholar, he has published (over 250 publications in Persian, Arabic and English) mainly in the areas of economic development, monetary economics, macroeconomics, international trade, Islamic Finance, and Schools of Economic thought. At the center of his research is advising economic policies. His works include “Schools of Economic thought” (2015),” An appraisal of Interest-free banking in Iran” (1995),” International Trade Theory and Policy and Foreign Trade of Iran&quot;(2009),” &quot;World Trade Organization: Structure, Rules and Agreements&quot;(2006),” The Islamic Development Bank Group&quot;(2005),” Essays on the New Banking Law in Iran&quot;(2010),” Resilient Economy” (2018),” Inclusive Growth in Iran’s Provinces” (2019), and” Financial Cycle and Macroeconomics of Iran” (2021). He is currently an editorial board for” Journal of Iranian Economic Issues”, ” Quarterly Journal of New Economy and Trade”,” Journal of Economic Modeling Research”, and” Quarterly Journal of Securities Exchange”.