People

Shama Azad is a Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and a PhD candidate at the University of Missouri-Kansas City pursuing a degree in Economics. Her areas of interest include the evolution of money in the context of pre-modern and modern periods, the formation and implementation of macro economic policies, economic development, full employment policies, political economy, and the study of interest rates and exchange rates in the GCC countries. She holds a BA Hons degree from the University of Toronto in Economics and a MSc degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Edinburgh. She has taught macroeconomics at the undergraduate level at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and has also served as a graduate research assistant.