Research Fellow Fakhri is a research fellow leading the KAPSARC Global Energy Macroeconometric Model (KGEMM) project. Previously, he was an associate professor… Fakhri is a research fellow leading the KAPSARC Global Energy Macroeconometric Model (KGEMM) project. Previously, he was an associate professor and director of the Center for Socio-Economic Research at Qafqaz University, Azerbaijan. He has served as a deputy director of the Research Institute at the Ministry of Economic Development, and a senior economist at the Research Department of the Central Bank of Azerbaijan Republic. He received a Fulbright Post-Doctoral Scholarship and conducted a research on building and applying a macroeconometric model for policy analysis at the George Washington University. Fakhri is a member of the research program on forecasting at the George Washington University and the editorial board of the Asian Journal of Business and Management Sciences. His research interests and experience span econometric modeling and forecasting, building and applying macroeconometric models for policy purposes, energy economics with a particular focus on natural resource-rich countries.

Expertise

• Applied macroeconometrics
• Energy economics
• Time series modeling and forecasting

Research Fellow Jeyhun is a research fellow whose primary research interests include but are not limited to applied time series econometrics, the… Jeyhun is a research fellow whose primary research interests include but are not limited to applied time series econometrics, the economics of energy and environment,  and sustainable development. Previously, he was an associate professor at the Department of Statistics and Econometrics of Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC). Also, at Qafqaz University, Azerbaijan, he served as associate professor in the Department of Economics, as the head of the Center for Socio-Economic Research, and as director of the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities. Jeyhun has carried out a post-doctorate study at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. He has also been a visiting researcher at a number of institutions including the Center for Econometric Research, Sungyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea; Vistula University, Warsaw, Poland; University of North Texas, USA; and University of South Texas, USA.

Expertise

• Energy economics
• Environmental economics
• Sustainable development