M. Hashem Pesaran

Mohammad Hashem Pesaran (born 30 March 1946) is a British–Iranian economist.

He received his BSc in economics at the University of Salford (England) and his PhD in Economics at Cambridge University. He is the John Elliott Distinguished Chair in Economics at the University of Southern California and has held that position since August 2005. He also serves as the director of the USC Dornsife Center for Applied Financial Economics Research. In January 2013, he was made a distinguished professor at USC.

He has been head of the Economic Research Department of the Central Bank of Iran and the under-secretary of the Iranian Ministry of Education. His son, Bijan Pesaran, is the Robert A. Groff Professor of Teaching and Research in Neurosurgery II, and Professor of Neuroscience and Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania.

Selected publications For a full list refer to his personal homepage at Cambridge University.