Mohamed Fawzy Omran Associate Professor, School of Business Administration . Address: Nile University,               B71, Smart Village, Km 28               Cairo/Alexandria Desert Road               Giza, Egypt, 12677 Telephone number: (202)-3534-2091 Email: mfomran@nileuniversity.edu.eg

EDUCATION

• CFA, Chartered Financial Analyst, CFA Institute, USA, 2001.
• Ph.D. in Finance, Strathclyde University, UK , 1997.
• MS. in Finance, Strathclyde University, UK , 1992.
• BCom. in Business Administration, Ain Shams University, Egypt, 1987.
       

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Financial Valuation and Modeling.
• Financial Assets Management.
• Market Volatility and Appraisal.

TEACHING

• Investments and Corporate Finance.
• Bonds and Stocks Valuation.
• Financial Risk Management.

HONORS & AWARDS

• Certificate of Appreciation from Dubai Department of Economic Development, April 3, 2006.
• Certificate of Appreciation from the Director General of the Dubai Financial Market (DFM), April 15th, 2003.
• Bashorun Abiola prize in Accounting and Finance for 1992, Strathclyde University.

SOCIETIES & MEMBERSHIPS

• The Chartered Financial Analysts Institute of the USA since 2000.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Associate Professor of Finance, Nile University since September 2009.
• Associate Professor of Finance, University of Sharjah, Septmeber 2003 – August 2009.
• Associate Professor of Finance United Arab Emirates University, September 1999 – August 2003.
• Assistant Professor of Finance, Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics, September 1997 – August 1999.
• Assistant Professor of Finance, Department of Accounting and Finance, Stirling University, UK, September 1995 – August 1997.

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

1. Omran, M. F., 2009. Examining the effects of Islamic Beliefs and Teachings on the Valuation of Financial Institutions in the United Arab Emirates, Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, Vol. 5, No. 1, article 4.
2. Omran, M. F., 2008. A Test of the Stable and Mixture of Normals Hypotheses for International Stock Returns. UOS Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences, ISSN: 1811 -1645, vol. 5, no. 3, 1-12.
3. Omran, M. F., 2007. An Analysis of the Capital Asset Pricing Model in the Egyptian Stock Market. The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 46, 801-812.
4. Omran, M. F., 2005. Identifying Risk Factors within the Arbitrage Pricing Theory in the Egyptian Stock Market. UOS Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences, ISSN: 1811 -1645, vol. 2, no. 2, 103-119.
5. Omran, M.F., 2003. Equity valuation using multiples in the emerging market of the United Arab Emirates, Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, Vol. 1, No. 3, 267-283.
6. Omran, M. F., 2002. An investigation of the sign and volatility switching ARCH models under alternative distributional assumptions, Advances in Econometrics, 17,165-176.
7. Omran, M. F., and McKenzie E., 2000. Heteroscedasticity in stock returns revisited: volume versus GARCH effects. Applied Financial Economics, 10, 553-560.
8. Omran, M. F., and McKenzie E., 1999. Testing for covariance stationarity in the UK all equity index. The Statistician (Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D), 48(3), 361-369.
9. Omran, M. F., 1998. An investigation of the maximal moments of exchange rates. Applied Economics Letters, 5, 603-606.
10. Omran, M. F., 1997. Moment condition failure in stock returns: UK evidence. Applied Mathematical Finance, 4(4), 201-206.
11. Omran, M. F., 1997. Nonlinear dependence and conditional heteroscedasticity in stock returns: UK evidence. Applied Economics Letters, 4, 647-650.