Mahmoud El-Gamal
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Will Clayton Fellow in International Economics Chair of Islamic Economics, Finance, and Management and Professor of Economics and Statistics
Mahmoud A. El-Gamal, Ph.D., is the Will Clayton Fellow in International Economics at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. He is the chair of and a professor in the Department of Economics at Rice University, where he also holds the endowed Chair in Islamic Economics, Finance and Management. Before joining Rice in 1998, he was an associate professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has also worked as an assistant professor at the University of Rochester and the California Institute of Technology; as an economist at the Middle East department of the International Monetary Fund (1995–96); and as the first scholar in residence on Islamic finance at the U.S. Department of Treasury (2004). El-Gamal has published extensively on finance, econometrics, decision science, economics of the Middle East and Islamic transactions law. His recent books include “Islamic Finance: Law, Economics, and Practice” (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and “Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises: The Global Curse of Black Gold” (with Amy Myers Jaffe; Cambridge University Press, 2010).
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