Djavad Salehi Isfahani
Expertise
Demographic economics, energy economics, and the economics of the Middle East.
Experience
Dr. Salehi-Isfahani was Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania (1977-84) and visiting faculty at the University of Oxford (1991-92). He has served on the Board of Trustees of the Economic Research Forum (2001-2006), a network of Middle East economists based in Cairo, where he has been a Research Fellow since 1993, and on the Board of the Middle East Economic Association. He is currently Professor of Economics at Virginia Tech and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Education
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani holds a BSc from University of London, Queen Mary College (1971), and Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University (1977).
Research Interests
He has co-authored, with Jacques Cremer, The World Oil Market, 1991, and edited two volumes: Labor and Human Capital in the Middle East, 2001, which was recognized as a Noteworthy Book of the year by the Princeton University Industrial Relations Section; and The Production and Diffusion of Public Choice Political Economy: Reflections on the VPI Center, with Douglas Eckel and Joseph C. Pitt, 2004. His articles have appeared in Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Journal of Economic Inequality, International Journal of Middle East Studies, and Iranian Studies, among others. >> Publications
