Designation: Associate Professor

Email: kahmed@mail.xjtu.edu.cn

Office： 5-6031 (i-harbour)

Subject: Environment and Resources   Economics

School: Public Policy and   Administration

Short Bio：

Dr. Khalid Ahmed is   currently serving as an Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy   and Administration (SPPA) at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is also a   research fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National   University and Energy Policy Research Group, Judge Business School,   University of Cambridge. His research interest is Applied Development   Economics, focusing on Environment and Resources Economics, Environmental   Policy, and Energy Policy. Previously, he served as an Associate Professor   and head of the Center for Research in Business and Economics at the   Department of Business Administration, Sukkur IBA University. He has a   Post-doctorate from the University of Cambridge and the University of   Gottingen, which was jointly funded by the Charles Wallace Foundation U.K and   the Erasmus Mundus European Commission. He has published papers in Energy   Economics, Applied Economics, Environmental Management, Cleaner Production,   Resources Policy, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Social Indicators   Research, and The Energy Journal.

Research area：

Energy   and Resource Economics, Environmental Policy, Energy Policy, Sustainable   Development, Development Economics, Applied Economics

Work experience：

·    Associate Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China (July 2022 _ to Date)

·    Associate Professor/Head of Research Center, SUKKUR IBA UNIVERSITY, Sukkur, Pakistan (August 2018 _ June 2022)

·    Visiting Research Fellow (May 2018 _ Dec 2019) Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG), Judge Business School, University of Cambridge,   UK.

·    Assistant Professor/Director Research SUKKUR IBA UNIVERSITY, Sukkur, Pakistan. (July 2013 to July 2018)

·    Visiting Researcher (July 07, 2018 to July 25, 2018) Department of Business and Economics, Monash   University, Caulfield East, Victoria, Australia

·    Post-Doctoral Fellow (December 2015 to June 2016), Department of Economics, UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN, Germany.

·    Charles Wallace Visiting Fellow (August 2015 to November 2015), Center for South Asian Studies, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,   U.K

Projects and fundings:

1.    “Political Economy of SAARC and Regional Trade Integration: Recent   ontogeny and Future Prospects”   (Supported by Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), Korean Government think tank.

2.      “Gender Inequality in Pakistan and its Repercussions on growth: A Regression Analysis”. (Supported by Korea   Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), Korean Government   think tank.

3.      “Testing Linkage between Growth, Trade and Deforestation for Environmental degradation in Pakistan: A cointegration and granger causality approach”. (Funded by HEC, Est. Budget. 0.5m PKR)

4.      “Assessing Public Environmental Awareness in Tharparker - Pakistan: A Survey Study on Thar Coal Project”. (Funded by HEC, Est. Budget 3.5 m PKR)

5.      “Analyzing and strategizing the basic Public-health facility in Tharparker district of Sindh”. (Funded by HEC,   Est. Budget 4.0 m PKR)

6.      “Measuring the impact of interest-free microfinance on socio-economic empowerment of rural woman” (Funded by HEC, Est. Budget 4.0 m PKR)

7.      “Economic Growth and Energy Crisis: Policy Issues and Institutional Reform in Pakistan”   (Australian Award DFAT, Project   ID: R161029)

8.    “Does financial inclusion alleviate rural household poverty? A case study on mobile wallet adoption in rural Sindh” (Project ID: 291,   Funded by SHEC, Est. Budget   2.8 m PKR)

Selected research papers：

1.      Ahmed, K. (2023). Perspective on China's commitment   to carbon neutrality under the innovation-energy-emissions nexus. Journal   of Cleaner Production, 390, 136202.

2.      Ahmed, K., Apergis, N., Bhattacharya, M., & Paramati, S. R. (2021). Electricity consumption in Australia: the role of clean energy in reducing CO2 emissions. Applied Economics, 53:48, 5535-5548.

3.      Ahmed, K. (2020). Environmental policy stringency, related technological change and emissions inventory in 20 OECD countries. Journal of Environmental Management, 274, 111209.

4.      Ahmed, K. (2019). Resource curse hypothesis and role   of oil prices in USA. Resources Policy, 64, 101514.

5.      Ahmed, K., Bhutto, N. A., & Kalhoro, M. R. (2019). Decomposing the links between oil price shocks and macroeconomic indicators: Evidence from SAARC region. Resources Policy, 61, 423-432.

6.      Ahmed, K., Bhutto, N. A., & Kalhoro, M. R. (2019). Decomposing the links between oil price shocks and macroeconomic indicators: Evidence from SAARC region. Resources Policy, 61, 423-432.

7.      Ahmed, K. (2017). Revisiting the role of financial development for energy-growth-trade nexus in BRICS economies. Energy.   128, 487- 495.

8.    Ahmed, K., Bhattacharya, M., Shaikh,   Z., Ramzan, M., & Ozturk, I. (2017). Emission intensive growth and trade   in the era of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) integration:   An empirical investigation from ASEAN-8. Journal of Cleaner Production.   154, 530-540.

9.      Ahmed, K., Ur Rehman, M., & Ozturk, I. (2017). What drives carbon   dioxide emissions in the long-run? Evidence from selected South Asian   Countries. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 70,   1142-1153.

10.    Shahbaz, M., Nasreen, S., Ahmed, K., & Hammoudeh, S.   (2016). Trade openness–carbon emissions   nexus: The importance of turning points of trade openness for country panels. Energy Economics. 61, 221-232.

11.    Shahbaz, M..,   Bhattacharya, M., Ahmed, K. (2016). CO2   emissions in Australia: Economic and non-economic drivers in the long-run.   Applied Economics, 49   (13), 1273-1286.

12.    Ling, C. H., Ahmed, K., Muhamad, R. B., Lognathan, N., & Shahbaz, M. (2016). Testing the Social   Cost of Rapid Economic Development in Malaysia: The Effect of Trade on Life Expectancy. Social Indicators Research, 30 (3), 1005-1023.

13.    Ahmed, K. (2016).   Dynamics between Economic Growth, Labor, Capital   and Natural Resource Abundance in Iran: An Application of the Combined Cointegration Approach. Resources Policy,49 (3), 213-221.

14.    Ahmed, K., Bhattacharya, M., Qazi, A. Q., & Long,   W. (2016). Energy consumption in   China and underlying factors in a changing landscape: empirical evidence since the reform period. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 58, 224-234.

15.  Ahmed, K., Shahbaz, M., Qasim, A.,   & Long, W. (2015). The linkages between deforestation, energy and growth for environmental degradation in Pakistan. Ecological Indicators, 49,   95-103.

Honors and   achievement:

·      Listed in Stanford University’s top 2% highly   cited researchers (2021 & 2022)

·    Distinguished Belt and Road Young Scholar, China Higher Education, 2013, 2017 and        2019.

·    Charles Wallace Fellow Award, University of Cambridge, 2015.

·    Post-Doctorate Fellowship award, Erasmus Mundus European Commission, 2015-2016.

·    Selected Young Scientist at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, 2014.

·    Research Fellowship Award, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), 2014.

·    HEC-CSC joint PhD Scholarship Award, 2009-2013.

·    Silver Medalist, Undergraduate, 2005.

Contact information：

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