CURRICULUM VITE of Dr

Name: DR. BUKHARI M.S. SILLAH

Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Economics,

College of Business Administration,

King Saud University, Riyadh

Birth date: 9th August 1973,

Birth place: Wassu, Niani, C.R.D. The Gambia

Tel (office): 00966 14671425 / 00966 562645872

Education:

2002-2005: PhD in Quantitative Economics, University of Kiel, Germany.

1999-2001: Master of Economics, International Islamic University, Malaysia.

1994-1998: Bachelor of Business Administration, International Islamic University, Malaysia.

1998: Certificate of Malaysian Institute of Futures and Options.

Theses:

• PhD Dissertation: ‘Banking and Economic Growth: Case of the Gambia’.
• Master’s Thesis: ‘Relative Importance of Foreign and Domestic Macroeconomic Innovations for the Stock Price Fluctuations in an open economy: Case of Malaysia’

Awards:

• German Academic Exchange Services’ Award for the PhD Study in Germany, 2002-2005, DAAD Award.
• African Muslim Agency Award and the International Islamic University Award for the study of Masters of Economics, 1999-2001
• Malaysian Technical Cooperation Programme (MTCP) Award and the International Islamic University, Malaysia, for undergraduate study.

Work Experience:

2014/05 – to date: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, College of

Business Administration, King Saud University

Riyadh, Kingdom of Saud Arabia

2009/ 09 – 2014/04: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, College of

Business Administration, King Saud University

Riyadh, Kingdom of Saud Arabia

2009/01 – 2009/ 07: Guest Researcher, University of Kiel,

Germany

2005- 2008:Head of Department and Economics lecturer, Department of Economics and Management Sciences, University of The Gambia.

2001-2002:Economics Lecturer University of the Gambia.

1999-2001:Graduate Teaching Assistant, International Islamic University, Malaysia.

2002 -2002: Insurance Compliance Officer, the Central Bank of the Gambia.

1998-1999:Cadet Administrative Officer, Personnel Management Office, Government of the Gambia.

1997 -1998: Islamic Banking trainee at Bank Islam Malaysia Berhard, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

1997 – 1998: three months of training at Malaysia Stock Exchange as a stock market analyst. I have been certified by Malaysian Stock Exchange Commission to work in its futures and options market.

Teaching experience

From 2009 to date: courses taught at King Saud University, Riyadh

Course taught at University of the Gambia, 2001 – 2002, and 2005 – 2009 and English is the medium of instruction:

• Business Statistics
• Mathematical economics
• Intermediate Microeconomics
• Intermediate Macroeconomics
• Economics of Money, Banking and Capital Markets
• Econometrics I

Course taught at United Nations Institute for Economic Development and Planning, Dakar Senegal 2008 and the medium of instruction is English:

• Applied Econometrics

Subject areas covered in the teaching:

• Econometrics
• Business Mathematics
• Business Statistics
• Mathematical economics
• Microeconomics
• International trade and economics
• Macroeconomics
• Economics of money, banking and capital markets
• Islamic Finance

Research Interests:

Analysis of conventional banking and financial institutions, economic growth, monetary economics, macro econometric analysis and Islamic economics and finance

Peer Reviewed Publications:

• Sillah, B.M.S., Khokhar, I., and Nauman, M., 2015, “Technical Efficiency of Banks and the Effects of Risk Factors on the Bank Efficiency in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries”, Journal of Applied Finance and Banking, Vol. 5(2), pp.127 -140
• Sillah, Bukhari M. S. 2015, “Human capital, foreign direct investment stock, trade and the technology diffusion in Saudi Arabia 1974-2011”, Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 42(1), pp. 101 – 116.
• Sillah, Bukhar, and Imran Khokahr. 2014, “consumer perception of Islamic banks: the case of Saudi Arabia”, Journal of Islamic Banking and Finance, Vol.31 (4), pp. 70 – 81.
• Sillah, Bukhari, 2014, “An analysis of the impacts of rainfall and rainfall variability on cash and food crop production in the Gambia”, Global Journal of Quantitative Science Vol.1. No.3. June 2014 Issue. Pp 17-23.
• Sillah, B.M.S., Khokhar, I., and Nauman, M., 2014, “The Performance of Saudi Banking Industry 2000 – 2011: Have the Banks distinguished themselves from one another?” International Journal of Financial Research, Vol. 5(2), pp: 121 -132
• Sillah, Bukhari M. S., 2013, “An econometric analysis of agriculture-growth nexus in the Gambia: 1966 to 2009, it is more people per acre and fewer yields per acre, and the reverse should have been the case”, African Journal of Agricultural research, Vol. 8(50), pp. 6651 – 6662.
• Sillah, Bukhari M. S., Al-Sheikh, Hamad M., 2012, “Income, price and government expenditure elasticity of oil consumption in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries”, International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Vol. 2(4), pp. 333 – 341.
• Sillah, Bukhari M. S., 2012, "An analysis of efficiency in senior secondary schools in the Gambia 2006 – 2008: Educational inputs and production of credits in English and Mathematics", Africa Education Review, Vol. 9(1), pp. 86 - 104
• Sillah, Bukhari M. S., 2012, "Governance and income determinants of poverty reduction: A cross-sectional analysis of Sub-Saharan African countries", African Journal of Business Management, Vol. 6(3), pp. 756 -761.
• Sillah, Bukhari M. S., Al-Sheikh, Hamad M., 2011, " Demand elasticity of oil in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia using autoregressive and error correction procedures", African Journal of Business Management, vol. 5(34), pp. 13146 – 13153.
• Sillah, Bukhari M.S., June 2007,“Monetary Integration: Gambia versus ECOWAS”; Journal of Economic Thought, Journal of the Department of Economics, Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria, Vol. 2, No. 1, June 2007.
• Sillah, Bukhari M. S. "Services Trade and Domestic Regulation in the Gambia", Cuts International, June 2008.

• Sillah, Bukhari M. S., March/April, 2009, “Trade and Growth Linkages: Evidence from the Gambia”. Journal of Applied Social Sciences (JASS), Vol.7, No.2, 2009, University of Buea, Republic of Cameroon.
• Jammeh, Muhammed, Sillah, Bukhari M.S. and Olaitan, Olubisi A. " professionaliyzation of formal education towards the employment of students of selected Senior secondary and post secondary institutions", Educational Research Network for Central and West Africa, February 2009.
• Sillah, Bukhari M. S. November/December, 2009, “Debt-Intermediation and the Economic Growth: Is there Evidence in the Gambia”; Journal of Applied Social Sciences (JASS), Vol.8, No.1 & 2, 2009, University of Buea, Republic of Cameroon
• Sillah, Bukhari M. S., "cost and demand functions of electricity in the Gambia from 1982 to 2007", African Journal of Business Management Vol. 5(4), pp. 1184-1193, 18 February, 2011

Non-Peer Reviewed Publications:

• “Case Study on the Impacts of IMF Policies on the Achievement of Education Millennium Development Goals in The Gambia”, sponsored by Action Aid International the Gambia; Publishers: Action Aid International the Gambia.

Research Works in Progress:

• Bank efficiency and effects of risk factors on it in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries.
• Bank-based financial intermediation: A further Interpretation of Tsurus' Model with application to Saudi Economy
• Employee Financial Wellbeing in the Gambia
• Rapid oil consumption: income asymmetry and long run income elasticities in GCC countries join paper with Professor Dermot Gately, New York University and Dr. Hamad Al-Sheikh, King Saud University.
• Migration in Africa: How is it driven by poverty, political risk and climate change?

Unpublished Seminar Papers:

• “Neo-Keynesian Analogy: Credit Constraint as a Source of Unemployment in the Gambia”, 08/02/2006. University Seminar Paper, University of the Gambia, Kanifing, the Gambia.
• “Economic and Political Emancipation of Africa”, 01/05/2006, Friendship Hostel, The Gambia Armed Forces in honour of the visiting Nigerian Armed Forces.
• “Financial Services Case Study of the Gambia”; University Seminar Paper, University of the Gambia, 05 – 12 – 2007, Kanifing, the Gambia

Conference Papers:

• “The bank – growth nexus: case of Palestine 1994 – 2011”, Proceedings of World Islamic Banking, Finance and Investment Conference 17 – 18 December 2012, Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• “Scoping Study on China-Africa Economic Relations: Case of the Gambia”, AERC Conference, Dare Salam, Tanzania, 28 -30 November 2007.
• “Use and Interpretation of Macroeconomic Indicators”; WAIFEM’s regional Forum on the Role of Parliament in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals, April 7 – 11, 2008, Banjul, the Gambia

Consultancies and Professional Works:

• “Basic Statistics Training” for the junior staff of the Gambia Bureau of Statistics from November 2006 to May 2007. It was sponsored by Capacity Building Economic Management Project (CBEMP).
• “Project Completion Report (PCR)” for the IFAD and Gambia Government Rural Finance Community Initiatives project (RFCIP), July 2007.
• “ Microfinance Needs Assessment Study”, Funded by Concern Universal for National Cooperative Credit Unions of the Gambia (NACCUG), October 2007
• “Service Sector and Domestic Regulation Review”, funded by Consumer Unity and Trust Society International (CUTS International), December 2007.

Professional Memberships:

• Head, Quality Unit, Department of Economics, CBA, King Saud University, 09/2014 – to date
• A member of Postgraduate Committee of the Economics Department, King Saud University: 2010 – to date.
• A member of Accreditation Committee of Economics Department, College of Business Administration, King Saud University, 2011 – to date.
• Academic Board Member of the Collaborative Masters Programme of African Economic Research Consortium: 2006 – 2009.
• A Sahariah Board Member of Takaful Insurance Gambia Ltd: 2008 – 2009
• A member of the Steering Committee of the West African Research and Innovation Management Association: 2007 – 2008.
• A Commissioner of the Gambia Competition Commission: 2008 – 2009.

Professional Skills Development:

Community Services and Services to King Saud University:

• A member of Postgraduate Committee of the Economics Department, King Saud University: 2010 – to date

• Member of Accreditation Committee, Department of Economics, King Saud University, 2010 – to date
• Consultant in the Office of the Vice rector for Quality and Development, King Saud University, 2009 - 2011
• “Principles of Islamic Economics”, 20/05/2006. Kotu Senior Secondary School, the Gambia.
• Resource person for the Global Campaign against Poverty in November 2006. My functions included speaking on the role of the International Financial Institutions in impoverishing the Developing Countries. The speech was aired on City Limits radio and Gambia Radio and Television Services.
• Participated as a resource person in the Global Campaign Against Poverty, which was conducted almost nationwide in the Gambia, November 2005

Language proficiency:

Computer Languages:

Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Shazam, E-Views, Stata and Scientific WorkPlace

Referees:

• Professor Dr. Hans-Werner Wohltmann

Institute of Economics

University of Kiel

Wilhelm-Seelig-Platz 1

D-24118, Kiel, Germany

Tel: 49 431 880 1446

Fax: 49 431 880 2228

Email:

• His Excellency Dr. Hamad M. Alsheikh

Vice Minister

Ministry of Education

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Email :

• Professor Andreas L. Steigen

University of Bergen

Norway

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