Queen's University Management School

 The last 4 years I have been publishing in mainly three areas: (1) Panel Data, more precisely in the field of testing for stationarity in panel data where I am considered as the lead author internationally. My 2000 paper, published in Econometrics Journal is  ranked
    Top 1‰ items by number of citations
    Top 1‰ items by number of citations discounted by age
    Top 1‰ items by number of citations weighted by recursive impact factors
    Top 1‰ items by number of citations weighted by recursive impact factors and discounted by age.

 It has more than 1020 hits in Google Scholar. (2) Financial Econometrics: my paper published in the Journal of Financial Econometrics in 2011 attracted many international invitations as a keynote speaker or invited speaker including by Princeton University, Toulouse University, Toronto University, Cairo University, Itotsubashi University, Marseille University ect. (3) I started to work on a third field of research concerning Primary commodity Prices in relation to appropriate policies in ressource-rich countries only in 2010. Already, I received invitations as keynote speaker/ invited speaker By Oxford University, the African Econometric Society Meeting in Nairobi, the High level Seminar organized jointly by the IMF and the Central Bank of Algeria to address Ministers of Finance and Governors of Central Banks across the continent of Africa. My paper on the topic registered the highest download amongst my papers posted in RePec in 2011. Overall, my reseach is ranked amongst the top 5% in the world in terms of citations in RePec.

•  External Examiner, Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (2007-), all the quantitative undergraduate modules
• External Examiner, Department of Economics, Exeter University (2007-2009), postgraduate and undergraduate quantitative modules.
• External Examiner, Department of Economics, Leicester (2008-), postgraduate and undergraduate Econometrics/Statistics modules.
• African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) resource person to advise researchers and PhD students from Sub-Sahara Africa (2004-present).
• Member of the Subcommittee for research of the AERC (2008-)
• Invited by the IMF to participate and present a paper   to the IMF Institute-Bank of Algeria High Level Seminar on  "Natural Ressources, Finance and Development" in Algiers on November 4-5, 2010. The participants included central bank governors and Finance ministers or their representatives across Africa. 
• External Examiner at the University of Mauritius (2011-present)