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Curriculum Vitae
Name: Reza Gholami Nationality: Iranian Birth date: 1976, Febraury
ADDRESS
Desa Saujana, Serdang
Telephone: 01123028536
E-mail: rgholami_458@yahoo.com
UniversityAverage ScorePeriodDegree
Mazandaran University
17.50
out of 20
1994-1998B.A. in Economics
Shahid Beheshti University
17.10
out of 20
1999-2001M.A. in Economics,
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
3.83
for 32 credit units
2013-2016PhD*
PhD DISSERTATION
Stability in the world financial market, while two schools of thought are competing for their
share of the market, is the focal point of my thesis. In fact, conventional system that has
dominant position in the world financial market has experienced big catastrophe such as 1929
great depression and 2007 subprime crisis in recent decades. These crises have imposed huge
cost on the world economy. On the other hand, Islamic financial system claim that it can
provide more stability and also growth for world economy is growing very fast in spite of its
small share in entire financial market. The question is, can we expect more improvement for
Islamic finance. In other word, whether Islamic finance will be survived in this combat or will
goes to die out. The same question is exist also for conventional finance. Finally if both
survive, where would be the equilibrium point? and what is their share in the equilibrium?
For analyzing this idea, I am going to use the Evolutionary Stable Strategy (ESS) method.
This method that originated from game theory and introduced by Smith & Price, (1973) is
very suitable approach for evaluating population evolution. This study will expand the
economic stability literature and also will provide better environment for policy makers to
improve the stability of the systems.
* I did all my comprehensive exams and submitted my proposal for committee members
INTERESTS AREAS
Finance, Monetary Policy, Islamic Finance, Game Theory, Stability of the Systems
PUBLICATIONS AND WORKING PAPERS
Gholami, Reza, 2001, "Modeling the Demand and Supply of Cotton in Iran" M.A. Thesis,
Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
Gholami, Reza, 2000, "The effect of Trade on Economic Growth: Evidence from Iran" A
Working Paper prepared for Applied Econometrics course, Shahid Beheshti
University, Tehran, Iran.
Gholami, Reza, 2002, "A Literature Review on the Economics of Corruption: Theoretical and
Empirical Aspects", Prepared for the internal use in the governmental department,
Tehran, Iran.
Gholami, Reza, 2005, "Analyzing the Monetary policies in Iran: exchange rate, interest rate,
and banking system", A report prepared for the internal use in the governmental
department, Tehran, Iran.
Gholami, Reza, 2009, "World economic crisis: reasons and effects" A report prepared for the
internal use in the governmental department, Tehran, Iran.

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Note: I have worked more than 20 cases and subjects but all of them had been related to
internal use in governmental department.
Now, in addition my thesis, I am working on four topics;
- A paper about consumption in Iran. I am trying to test “Hall Hypothesis” in Iran. I
have gathered data and run model and I am writing now.
- Debt Policy and fragility in Malaysian economy
- Profit-Loss Sharing, why is not popular arrangement?
- The divergence of the systems based on profit rate and interest rate.
CONFERENCE ATTENDENCE AND PRESENTATION
Gholami, Reza, 2009, "Global Financial Crisis: Lessons Learned and Experiences Gained by
ECO Member Countries" Tehran, Iran.
Gholami, Reza, The Economic Development, China, Boao, 2010
Golaami, Reza, Financial Planning; Putting Theory into Practice, 19 April 2014
Golaami, Reza, Debt Capital Market; Mechanic of Bond Issuance and Trading, 24 May 2014
Golaami, Reza, Islamic Capital Market; Islamic Structued Products, 25 May 2014
Golaami, Reza, Inflation Targeting in Iran Economy, 2014 (Class Presentation)
Golaami, Reza, Best Portfolio (Class practice for making best portfolio), 2013
SNAPSHOT PROFILE
 Solid background in analytical methodologies and quantitative analysis.
 Extensive experience in managing projects.
 Demonstrated ability to lead a team and work cooperatively with others.
 Outstanding communication skills.
 Recognized as a hard-worker, a quick decision-maker with a hands-on approach, and
a research-driven scholar.
 Experience in working and making decision under stressful conditions.
WORK EXPERIENCE
ResponsibilityPositionPeriodWork place
Mathematic
Statistics
Macroeconomic
Assistant of Associated
professors and senior
lecturers
1997-2001
During study
(Both Master and
Bachelor periods)
Involvement in developing and designing
research approaches and instruments for
projects.
Conducting literature reviews on different
economic issues including the structure of
the Government budget, Money Laundering,
Corruption and Rent seeking, Monetary
Policy.
Researcher/Policy
Economist
2002-2003Military of Justice
Analyzing the electricity consumption and
production trends and presenting the results
for the senior management.
Estimating the short and long run prices for
electricity.
Budget analysis for some electricity
corporations.
Researcher/Policy
Economist
2004-2005Ministry of Energy

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Worked as a team leader (a team consisting
of more than 30 experts), which provides
economic advices to the Ministers, the other
governmental institutions and private sector
managers specially on issues related to the
effects of different government policies,
legislations and regulations on oil and gas
sector, transportation, banking system,
privatization, and productivity growth.
During 2009-2012, worked as a high manger
of planning in regional economy in the north
of Iran. In that period, I provided many
documents about increasing regional export,
decreasing unemployment through
investment, budgeting, rising income per
capita, etc.
Senior Policy Economist2006 -2012
Governmental department
of Economic and Policy
Research
COMPUTER SKILLS
Professional in E-Views, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Out Look also Matlab
LANGUAGE
Native in Persian (Farsi); Fluent in English; Some knowledge in Arabic