Naushad Alam Editor

Amir Ahmad Dar, PhD, is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Lovely Professional University in India. Dr. Dar has an impressive academic portfolio, having published over 20 research papers and 10 book chapters. He has presented his work at eight national and international conferences. His research interests include actuarial statistics, experimental design, financial derivatives, and financial mathematics. He completed his BSc in Actuarial and Financial Mathematics at the Islamic University of Science and Technology in Awantipora, India. He pursued his MSc and PhD in Actuarial Science at B S Abdur Rahman University in Chennai, India.

Mohammad Shahfaraz Khan, PhD is the Assistant Professor (Finance and Accounting) in the Department of Business Administration in the College of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Technology and Applied Sciences (UTAS) (formerly College of Applied Sciences, Salalah), Salalah, Sultanate of Oman. He earned his PhD from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India, and also did his bachelor’s (Commerce) and master’s in Finance & Control (MFC) at the same university. He is a gold medalist for his postgraduation (MFC) work and qualified national eligibility test for lecturership. He has published several papers in the field of finance and accounting, and his areas of interest in research is foreign direct investment (FDI), stock market, investment management, fintech, banking and finance, Islamic banking, and behavioral finance.

Naushad Alam, PhD, is currently working in the Department of Finance and Economics at Dhofar University, Oman. He earned his Master of Finance and Control and PhD in Finance from Aligarh Muslim University, India. He has more than 10 years of teaching and research experience and has published research paper in journals with impact factors. He formerly worked at the GL Bajaj Institute of Management Research, India, and at Saudi Electronic University, Saudi Arabia.

Olayan Albalawi, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics in the Faculty of Science at the University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. He holds a PhD in Applied Statistics from the University of New South Wales, Australia, as well as a Masters of Statistics from the University of New Mexico, USA. Additionally, he obtained a master’s degree in Mathematical Science from the University of Queensland of Technology. He serves as a reviewer for the King Saud of Science Journal.