Tayyeb Shabbir

A 1987 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (Ph. D. Economics), Dr. Tayyeb Shabbir is currently a tenured Full Professor of Finance and Chair in the Department Accounting, Finance and Economics in the College of Business Administration and Public Policy at California State University, Dominguez Hills. He also served as the Director of the Institute of Entrepreneurship from 2012-2014. Dr. Shabbir joined DH in 2006 after having been a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School. Dr. Shabbir has vast teaching, research and consulting experience that has been acquired internationally. His areas of expertise include: prediction, management and prevention of financial crises, investment strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds, global financial flows, entrepreneurial finance, microfinance, and human capital investments. Dr. Shabbir has scores of publications and competitive research grants to his credit and has also served as a consultant to the World Bank, UNDP and the Asian Development Bank. Recently, acclaimed international academic publisher, Edward Elgar, published Dr. Shabbir’s book about financial crises which was co-edited with Professor Lawrence Klein, Nobel Laureate in Economics and Benjamin Franklin Professor of Finance and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Shabbir is especially interested in policy relevant analyses of global economic issues, financial crises, entrepreneurial finance, and financial markets. Dr. Shabbir is frequently sought by press for interviews as an expert as well as a keynote speaker in professional meetings. Recently he served as a CBAPP Consultant to Honda headquarters in Torrance for a training program to about Finance for Non-Finance Managers. He is also a regular speaker to the visiting Chinese delegations at the CSUDH’s College of Extended Education as well as the Society of Government Accountants in South Bay.

EDUCATION:

• Ph. D. Economics (with special emphasis on International Finance and Applied Econometrics). University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA., May, 1987
• M. A. Economics/Finance. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA., May, 1982