Dr. Zahid Muhammad is a Financial Economist and Econometrician with an extensive international academic career spanning the United Kingdom and the Middle East. He holds an MSc in Management (Managerial Economics) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK, and a PhD in Economics (Financial Economics) from the University of Birmingham, UK. He is also a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (SFHEA), recognising his sustained contribution and leadership in higher education teaching and learning. His academic training combines a strong foundation in economic theory, financial economics, mathematics, statistics, and advanced econometric modelling, which underpin his teaching, research, and consultancy activities.

Dr. Muhammad is currently a Senior Lecturer in Economics and Finance at Bangor University, United Kingdom. Prior to joining Bangor University, he held a range of academic positions, including Lecturer in Economics, Statistics and Econometrics at the University of Sheffield, Lecturer in Econometrics and Finance at the University of Abertay Dundee, Teaching Assistant at the University of Birmingham, and Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance at leading universities in Saudi Arabia. Throughout his career, he has made significant contributions to teaching, research, postgraduate supervision, curriculum development, academic leadership, accreditation, and quality assurance within higher education institutions.

Dr. Muhammad has an extensive teaching portfolio encompassing both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. He has successfully delivered courses in Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Managerial Economics, Statistics, Econometrics, Financial Econometrics, Corporate Finance, Financial Management, Financial Markets and Institutions, Investment and Portfolio Management, and Advanced Portfolio Theory and Practice. He is recognised for his student-centred teaching approach, adapting his pedagogical methods to meet the diverse learning needs of students from different academic and cultural backgrounds. In addition, he has served as Module Leader and Coordinator for numerous courses, playing a key role in curriculum design, module development, assessment strategy, and quality enhancement initiatives. His commitment to academic excellence is further reflected in his supervision and mentoring of undergraduate dissertations, master's theses, MBA projects, and doctoral research.

Dr. Muhammad's research interests lie primarily in Financial Economics, Financial Econometrics, Monetary Economics, Banking, and Applied Econometrics. His research has focused on areas such as monetary transmission mechanisms, portfolio behaviour of commercial banks, financial market volatility, risk analysis, banking sector performance, and quantitative financial analysis. He has published in internationally recognised peer-reviewed journals indexed in Scopus and other leading academic databases and has presented his research at international conferences and academic seminars. In recognition of the quality of his research, he received the Best Paper Award at the Global Academy of Business and Economics Research International Conference. He has also successfully secured competitive research funding, including a grant from the Ministry of Higher Education in Saudi Arabia for a project examining the portfolio behaviour of Saudi commercial banks. Through his ongoing research, teaching, and academic leadership, Dr. Muhammad continues to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in Financial Economics and Applied Econometrics while engaging with both academic and professional communities.

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Undergraduate Teaching:

• Advanced Investment Theory and Practices
• Econometrics
• Financial Markets and Institutions
• Money and Macro
• Advanced Corporate Finance
• Investment and Investment Banking