Dr Kamal Field Al-Basri Bsc. &Ph.Deconomics

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16th April 2013

Dr Kamal Field Al-Basri BSc. &Ph.DEconomics

Kamal Al-Basri has occupied several academic positions with a number of British Universities. Subsequently, he has worked for a number of international financial institutions GE Capital, Barclays and Lloyds Bank. In 2003, he moved back to Iraq and served as Deputy Ministry of Finance and Economic Advisor to the PM. He has experience in making strategic decision in: Banking Reform, Public Subsidies and Privatization. As the Deputy Minister of Finance he has been engaged with national and international organisations, such as, IMF, World Bank and DFID, on economic development and reforms.

Dr Al- Basri is the founder of the Iraq Institute of Economic Reform (IIER), the first think tank organisation based in Baghdad. The institute involved in drafting economic policy papers, organising regular public debates and training. Building links with other think tanks organisations such as: International Republic Institute (IRI), United State Institute of Peace (USIP), Centre of International Private Enterprise (CIPE), andthe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The institute website can be found at: www.IIER.org.

Achievements:

a)  Dr. Kamal has contributed to major international economic literatures and written several policy papers. Amongst his achievements are: contributed to the policy design and implementation of economic reform in Iraq. Launched and founded by Iraq Institute for Economic Reform,

b)  Drafted several policy papers on the economic and financial situation in Iraq;

c)  Lead on providing training to members of the new Iraqi parliament and senior members of Iraqi government on strategic economic needs and simulation exercises;

d)  Developed analytical solutions to identify business opportunities for financial institutions and high-street retailers

e)  On the academic level whilst working in the UK as health economist, he provided evidence that targeting those with high blood pressure and history of coronary diseases is more cost effective than universal screening for prevention of coronary heart diseases, using random control trial data. This paper was published in the British Medical Journal 1995;

f)  Provided critical and Quantative Analysis explaining that the motivation of mergers amongst British Building Societies cannot be explained in terms of improving economic efficiency, but rather by managerial objectives, ie power and prestige. The paper was published in Applied Economics Journal in 1991, and.;

g)  Provided initial analysis and justifications of road pricing in London and its impact on road congestion and on health and the environment.

Specialist Expertise

He has working experiences in the following subjects: Expert on Iraqi Economic Affairs, Banking Reform, Credit Scoring and Modelling, Marketing Campaign, Health Economist and Applied Econometric.

Work Experience

In the past he occupied several positions including:

·  Advisor to Prime Minister of Iraq on Economic affairs

·  Deputy Minister – Ministry Finance, Iraq

·  Advisor : Minister of Trade, Iraq

·  Senior Risk Analyst – Lloyds TSB Bank, London

·  Senior Business Analyst – Barclays Bank, London

·  Senior Business Analyst – GE Capital, Leeds

·  Occupied several positions at the following British Universities:

·  West of England as Senior Lecturer in Economics.

·  Wales as Senior Lecture in Economics,

·  London as Senior Research Fellow in Health Economist,

·  Surrey as Senior Research Fellow in Health Economist,

·  Leeds as Research Fellow in Transport Economics,

·  Manchester as Research Associate in Labour Economics,

Honorary Positions

·  Research Associate, Economics Department, West of England University 1997 – 1999.

·  Associate Lecturer in Economics, the International Islamic University, London, 1997-2003.

·  Member of the Executive Board of the American University, London, [1987]-1995.

·  Associate Lecturer, Economics Department, Surrey University 1989-1991.

·  Research Associate, Economics Department, Manchester University 1988-1991.

Education

PhD in Economics – University of Strathclyde 1985

B.Sc. in Economics (First Class) – University of Basra 1976

Profile

·  Experience in managing large organizations such as the Iraqi Ministry of Finance and Trade with over 20,000 employees.

·  Experiences in making strategic decision such as Banking Reforms, Public Subsides, Privatization… etc

·  Dealing with international organization such IMF and World Bank and other government institutions.

·  Developing analytical solutions to identify business opportunities for Financial Institutions and high-street retailers.

·  Experience in building models for predicting risk and fraud, improving the response rate for personal loans and other mailing campaigns, cost-benefit analysis, forecasting consumer behaviour, and productivity analysis.

·  Segmentation, targeting potential customers and providing analytical solutions to the Small Businesses.

·  Statistician and computer programmer, analysing large data files and using standard software such as SAS, SPSS and other data-mining tools.

·  Teaching experience in economics, managerial economics advanced statistical methods, econometric and operational research techniques and health economics.

·  Supervising and implementing standard quality techniques to ensure effective executions of projects.

Summary of Achievements

·  Contributed to policy design and implementations with regard Economic Reform in Iraq (2003-2007).

·  Managing Director Iraqi Institute for Economic Reform, which is first “Think Tank“in Iraq recognised on international level.

·  Drafted several policy papers on the economics and financial situation reforms in Iraq

·  Provided training to members of the Iraqi Parliament and senior members of Iraqi government on Strategic Economic needs and Simulation Exercise

·  Provided evidence (using random control trial data) that universal screening for prevention of coronary heart disease is not cost effective, whereas targeting those with high blood pressure and history of coronary diseases is. See British Medical Journal, April 1995.

·  Established merger activities of British Building Societies that cannot be explained in terms of improving economic efficiency, but rather by managerial objectives. See Applied Economics, March 1990.

·  Developed a method for updating and forecasting input-output technology. This method has the potential to provide accurate forecasts for firms/industry input requirements.

·  Provided evidence on the economic efficiency of British universities and hospitals, and identified the source of their inefficiency.

·  Undertook a cost-benefit analysis on the impact of road pricing (in London) on road congestion.

·  Developed an econometric model to explain, the variation in unemployment across UK regions and over time.

·  Developed an econometric model for analysing consumers demand in Scotland.

·  Contributed to the debate of re-structuring Iraq’s economy

Others details including full publications and references can be provided on request