Resume

• 2011

  TransResearch Consortium

  Habib Bank Limited

  Merrill Lynch

  Presidio Graduate School

  Oregon State University

  Portland State University

  Corvallis

  Oregon Area

  Courses in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics

  Instructor

  Department of Economics

  Oregon State University

  Portland

  Oregon Area

  Designed and taught the following upper division and graduate level courses: \n- Financial Reform in Emerging Financial Markets\n- International Political Economy\n- Multinational Corporations \n- Political Economy of Terrorism. \n\nThe themes of these courses are financial development

  baking sector reform

  corporate governance

  corruption

  and financial flows and currency crisis.\nMentored students and helped guide their research

  as well as wrote qualifying field exams for graduate students.

  Adjunct Professor

  Portland State University

  Intern

  Pakistan

  Habib Bank Limited

  I collected and analyzed data for various projects and was involved in all stages of data work

  from data collection

  insuring data integrity

  data analysis

  and building statistical models. \n\nI wrote and maintained code in STATA for combining and analyzing large datasets.\n\nI also have experience with large datasets at various levels of analysis

  especially financial data at the industry level. I have also worked with local

  provincial and national level public finance and labor force data. \n\nThe findings of my research and datawork have resulted in publications.

  TransResearch Consortium

  Intern

  Merrill Lynch

  Presidio Graduate School

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Teaching Capitalism in Context: Economics for People and Planet

  MBA Faculty

• 2006

  Persian

  Urdu

  Hindi

  English

  PhD

  PhD

  Public Affairs and Policy (Field: International Political Economy) - Hatfield School of Government - Portland State University\n\nDissertation: “Capital Flows

  Political Performance and Economic Development”. \n\nMy dissertation explored whether the source of capital (foreign or domestic) played a role in fostering economic development

  given the developmental level

  and the institutional capacity of a country

  for a group of 120 countries divided in subsets of developed countries

  emerging markets and less developed countries

  over a period of 27 years.

  International Political Economy

  Portland State University

• 2003

  MS

  Thesis: Impact of Corruption on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).\n\nMy thesis studied the impact of corruption on FDI

  using industry level FDI Data for 60 countries arguing that the impact of corruption differed based on the industry type (i.e. extractive

  manufacturing

  infrastructure

  service etc.) and size of the economy.

  Economics

  Oregon State University

• 1997

  R

  Game Theory

  Panel Data Analysis

  Microsoft Office

  Stata

  Econometrics

  Data Collection

  Microsoft Excel

  Decision Analysis

  Politics

  Nonprofits

  Public Speaking

  Time Series Analysis

  SAS

  Research

  Teaching

  Data Mining

  Data Analysis

  Data Manipulation

  Statistics

  Composition of Capital Flows and Inequality Connection

  firm level evidence - in preparation

  Destination conflict? A South American Voyage

  This paper discusses whether regional cooperation is the key to escape the traps of poverty

  conflict and contraction that have plagued the continent for more than five decades.

  Destination conflict? A South American Voyage

  Capital Flows

  Domestic Savings and Development - in preparation

  “Will China Become the Next Dominant Power”

  Ron Tammen

  This research discussed the arguments regarding China's rise to preeminence and the importance of the efficiency of governments (both national and local) in the process.

  “Will China Become the Next Dominant Power”

  “Will Foreign Aid Help Sustain Pakistan”

  “Will Foreign Aid Help Sustain Pakistan” in Performance of Nations (with Marina Arbetman Rabinowitz) – Rowman &Littlefield

  2012\n\nUsing sub-national data

  this study attempted to search for levers to overcome one of the main bottle necks for development: instability. And more fundamentally address the question of whether economic aid will help.

  “Will Foreign Aid Help Sustain Pakistan”

  Ayesha

  Wahedi

  BS

  Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) in Mathematics and Statistics & Economics - Kinnaird College for Women - Pakistan\n\nActivities: Debate Team

  Shakespearean Theatre\n

  Mathematics and Statistics & Economics

  Kinnaird College for Women