Rashid Hassan

Rashid Mekki Hassan is the Professor and Director at the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA) at the University of Pretoria. He specialises in natural resource and environmental economics, agricultural economics, and optimisation and modelling of economic systems.

Education
Hassan holds a BSc and MSc., both in Agricultural Economics, from the University of Khartoum in 1977 and 1983 respectively. He proceeded to Iowa State University where he got MSc and Ph.D. degrees, both in Economics, in 1988 and 1989 respectively.

Career
Hassan is the professor of economics at the University of Pretoria where he studies natural resources management.

He has authored co-authored and co-edited journal articles and books on Water management in the South Africa which has been used to chart the efficiency of use of water.

He was elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in April 2019.

Books
The books which Hassan has authored, co-authored, or co-edited include:



Journal articles
Hassan has written dozens of articles including: