Mansoob Murshed, summary curriculum vitea

• Professor Murshed studied Economics at the University of London and obtained his PhD from the University of Birmingham (England). His PhD thesis was entitled Analytical Models of North-South Interactions;
• He has been a Lecturer, Research Fellow and Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham (1986-89), the University of Surrey (1989-93), the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre in Belfast (1993-94), the University of Bradford (1994-99), UNU-WIDER in Helsinki (1999-2001) and the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague (2001 onwards);
• Professor Murshed has undertaken consultancy activities for the United Nations Development Programme and for the European Union in Bangladesh;
• Since 2000, he has been a member of the United Nations DESA Expert Group on the Report on Social Protection (a paper on the economic causes of civil war), the United Nations DESA Expert Group on Conflict, and the World Bank Research Network on Conflict;
• Professor Murshed serves on the editorial advisory boards of a number of academic journals in the fields of economy and development, and is the editor of Issues in Positive Political Economy and Globalization, Marginalization and Development, both published in 2002.