History

Middle East Economic Association (MEEA) was founded in 1978. It has been the cornerstone of scholarship on the region since its inception.

MEEA organizes two conferences annually: 1) the Annual Meetings that are held with ASSA Annual Meeting and 2) the International Conference which is usually held in a country in or close to the Middle East and North Africa region. The first Annual Meeting was held in 1980 and the first International Conference was organized in 2001. MEEA also actively participates in Western Economic Association International Annual Meeting. For more information, see conferences.

MEEA has three officers: the president, the executive secretary, and the treasurer. It also has a board consisting of six members. For more information on the roles and responsibilities of officers and board members, as well as their election process, see the bylaws.

Past presidents:

• Wassim Shahin, 2018-2023
  Professor of Economics and Dean of the Adnan Kassar School of Business| Lebanese American University

• Hassan Y. Aly, 2013-2018
  Professor of Economics and Dean of the Business School| Nile University

• Serdar Sayan, 2010-2012
  Professor of Economics| University of Economics and Technology

• Hadi Salehi Esfahani, 2007-2009
  Professor of Economics| University of Illinois

• Jeffrey B. Nugent, 2004-2006
  Professor of Economics| University of Southern California

• Mine Cinar, 1999-2003
  Professor of Economics| Loyola University Chicago

• Fatemah Moghadam, 1997-1998
  Professor of Economics| Hofstra University

• Sohrab Behdad, 1995-1996
  Professor of Economics| Denison University

• Abbas Alnasrawi, 1990-1994 (In Memoriam)
  Professor of Economics| University of Vermont

• Manoucher Parvin, 1986-1989

• Stanislaw Wellisz, 1984-1985

• Charles Issawi, 1978-1983

Bylaws

You can find more information about the structure and processes of the organization as well as the roles and responsibilities of the officers and the board of directors in the bylaws.

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Mahmoud Mohieldin
President

Professor of economics and finance, the UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for Egypt, Executive Director at the IMF, and the UN Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda
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Sherine Al-Azzawi
Executive Secretary

Teaching Professor in the Economics Department, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University,
salazzawi@scu.edu
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Mahmoud Haddad
Treasurer

Professor of Finance at the college of Business And Global Affairs, The University of Tennessee at Martin.
mhaddad@utm.edu
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Nathalie Hilmi

The Monaco Scientific Center, Monaco

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Moamen Gouda

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea

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Jeff Nugent

University of Southern California, USA

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Wassim Shahin

Lebanese American School, Lebanon

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Mahdi Majbouri

Professor of Economics at Babson College

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Ali Fakih

Professor of Economics and the Associate Dean at the Adnan Kassar School of Business at the Lebanese American University (LAU)
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Shawkat Hammoudeh

Drexel University, USA

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Ahmed El-Sayed

Associate Professor in Financial Economics United Arab Emirates University
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Mohammad Reza Farzangan

Economist specializing in the political economy of the Middle East, currently holding a tenured professorship at Philipps-Universität Marburg
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Hassan Aly

Nile University, Egypt

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