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Moamen Gouda

Moamen Gouda is currently an Assistant Professor of International Development and Middle-East Economics at the Graduate School of International and Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea. He is also a research fellow at Economic Research Forum, a research associate at Marburg Center for Institutional Economics, Philipps-University Marburg, and an associate staff member at the "Master in Law and Economics of the Arab Region" program at Hamburg University's Institute of Law and Economics. His research focuses on Institutional Economics of Muslim-majority Countries, Law and Economics of Islam, Economics of Crime and Terrorism, and Islamic Constitutionalism.

Dr. Gouda received his Ph.D. in economics from Philipps-University Marburg, where he was a Yousef Jameel scholar. He received his MBA from Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, UK. Dr. Gouda has contributed to several collective volumes and reports. His articles are published and forthcoming in Constitutional Political Economy, European Journal of Law and Economics, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Economic Systems, Journal of Economics and Statistics, and Journal of World Intellectual Property. His paper “Islamic Constitutionalism and Rule of Law: A Constitutional Economics Perspective” received the 2013 Ibn Khaldun prize for best paper from the Middle East Economic Association. Dr. Gouda’s work has been cited in many media outlets including Economy Chosun, Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law and Constitution Making (I-CONnect), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and the Harvard Crimson.