Name: DR. BUKHARI M.S. SILLAH
Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Economics,
College of Business Administration,
King Saud University, Riyadh
Birth date: 9th August 1973,
Birth place: Wassu, Niani, C.R.D. The Gambia
[email protected]
Tel (office): 00966 14671425 / 00966 562645872
Education:
2002-2005:
1999-2001:
1994-1998:
1998:
PhD in Quantitative Economics, University of Kiel,
Germany.
Master of Economics, International Islamic University,
Malaysia.
Bachelor of Business Administration, International Islamic
University, Malaysia.
Certificate of Malaysian Institute of Futures and Options.
Theses:
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PhD Dissertation: ‘Banking and Economic Growth: Case of the Gambia’.
Master’s Thesis: ‘Relative Importance of Foreign and Domestic
Macroeconomic Innovations for the Stock Price Fluctuations in an open
economy: Case of Malaysia’
Awards:
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German Academic Exchange Services’ Award for the PhD Study in Germany,
2002-2005, DAAD Award.
African Muslim Agency Award and the International Islamic University Award
for the study of Masters of Economics, 1999-2001
Malaysian Technical Cooperation Programme (MTCP) Award and the
International Islamic University, Malaysia, for undergraduate study.
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Work Experience:
2014/05 – to date:
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, College of
Business Administration, King Saud University
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saud Arabia
2009/ 09 – 2014/04:
2009/01 – 2009/ 07:
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, College of
Business Administration, King Saud University
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saud Arabia
Guest Researcher, University of Kiel,
Germany
2005- 2008:
Head of Department and Economics lecturer, Department
of Economics and Management Sciences, University of
The Gambia.
2001-2002:
Economics Lecturer University of the Gambia.
1999-2001:
Graduate Teaching Assistant, International Islamic
University, Malaysia.
2002 -2002:
Insurance Compliance Officer, the Central Bank of the
Gambia.
1998-1999:
Cadet Administrative Officer, Personnel Management
Office, Government of the Gambia.
1997 -1998:
Islamic Banking trainee at Bank Islam Malaysia Berhard,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
1997 – 1998:
three months of training at Malaysia Stock Exchange as a
stock market analyst. I have been certified by Malaysian
Stock Exchange Commission to work in its futures and
options market.
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Teaching experience
From 2009 to date: courses taught at King Saud University, Riyadh
year
Term
Course code
Course title
2012/2013
2012/2013
First term
First term
ECON 414
ECON 426
2012/2013
First term
ECON 101
2012/2013
First term
ECON 102
Islamic banking Services
Islamic Banking and
Finance
Principles of
Microeconomics
Principles of
Macroeconomics
2011/2012
Second
term
ECON 211
2011/2012
Second
term
Second
term
Second
term
Second
term
2011/2012
First term
ECON 426
2011/2012
2011/2012
First term
First term
2010/2011
2011/2012
2011/2012
2011/2012
2010/2011
2010/2011
2010/2011
2010/2011
Medium of
instruction
Arabic
Arabic
Arabic and English
Arabic
Arabic
ECON 345
Economics of Money,
Banking and Capital
Markets
Mathematical Economics
ECON 414
Islamic Banking Services
Arabic
ECON 425
Assets Management and
Finance for Islamic Banks
Islamic Banking and
Finance
Arabic
Arabic
ECON 323
ECON 414
Islamic Banking and
Finance
Mathematical Economics
Islamic Banking Services
Second
term
Second
term
Second
term
ECON 312
International Trade
Arabic
ECON 323
Mathematical Economics
Arabic and English
ECON 426
Islamic Banking and
Finance
Arabic
First term
First term
ECON 351
ECON 211
International Economics
Economics of Money,
Banking and Capital
Markets
Arabic
Arabic
ECON 426
Arabic and English
Arabic
Arabic and English
Arabic
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2009/2010
2009/2010
2009/2010
Second
term
Second
term
ECON 351
International Economics
Arabic
ECON 101
Principles of
Microeconomics
Arabic
First term
ECON 101
Principles of
Microeconomics
Arabic
Course taught at University of the Gambia, 2001 – 2002, and 2005 – 2009 and English is the
medium of instruction:
 Business Statistics
 Mathematical economics
 Intermediate Microeconomics
 Intermediate Macroeconomics
 Economics of Money, Banking and Capital Markets
 Econometrics I
Course taught at United Nations Institute for Economic Development and Planning, Dakar
Senegal 2008 and the medium of instruction is English:
 Applied Econometrics
Subject areas covered in the teaching:
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Econometrics
Business Mathematics
Business Statistics
Mathematical economics
Microeconomics
International trade and economics
Macroeconomics
Economics of money, banking and capital markets
Islamic Finance
Research Interests:
Analysis of conventional banking and financial institutions, economic growth,
monetary economics, macro econometric analysis and Islamic economics and
finance
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Peer Reviewed Publications:
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Sillah, B.M.S., Khokhar, I., and Nauman, M., 2015, “Technical Efficiency of
Banks and the Effects of Risk Factors on the Bank Efficiency in Gulf Cooperation
Council Countries”, Journal of Applied Finance and Banking, Vol. 5(2), pp.127 140
Sillah, Bukhari M. S. 2015, “Human capital, foreign direct investment stock, trade
and the technology diffusion in Saudi Arabia 1974-2011”, Journal of Economic
Studies, Vol. 42(1), pp. 101 – 116.
Sillah, Bukhar, and Imran Khokahr. 2014, “consumer perception of Islamic
banks: the case of Saudi Arabia”, Journal of Islamic Banking and Finance,
Vol.31 (4), pp. 70 – 81.
Sillah, Bukhari, 2014, “An analysis of the impacts of rainfall and rainfall
variability on cash and food crop production in the Gambia”, Global Journal of
Quantitative Science Vol.1. No.3. June 2014 Issue. Pp 17-23.
Sillah, B.M.S., Khokhar, I., and Nauman, M., 2014, “The Performance of Saudi
Banking Industry 2000 – 2011: Have the Banks distinguished themselves from
one another?” International Journal of Financial Research, Vol. 5(2), pp: 121 132
Sillah, Bukhari M. S., 2013, “An econometric analysis of agriculture-growth
nexus in the Gambia: 1966 to 2009, it is more people per acre and fewer yields
per acre, and the reverse should have been the case”, African Journal of
Agricultural research, Vol. 8(50), pp. 6651 – 6662.
Sillah, Bukhari M. S., Al-Sheikh, Hamad M., 2012, “Income, price and
government expenditure elasticity of oil consumption in the Gulf Cooperation
Council Countries”, International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy,
Vol. 2(4), pp. 333 – 341.
Sillah, Bukhari M. S., 2012, "An analysis of efficiency in senior secondary
schools in the Gambia 2006 – 2008: Educational inputs and production of credits
in English and Mathematics", Africa Education Review, Vol. 9(1), pp. 86 - 104
Sillah, Bukhari M. S., 2012, "Governance and income determinants of poverty
reduction: A cross-sectional analysis of Sub-Saharan African countries", African
Journal of Business Management, Vol. 6(3), pp. 756 -761.
Sillah, Bukhari M. S., Al-Sheikh, Hamad M., 2011, " Demand elasticity of oil in
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia using autoregressive and error correction
procedures", African Journal of Business Management, vol. 5(34), pp. 13146 –
13153.
Sillah, Bukhari M.S., June 2007,“Monetary Integration: Gambia versus
ECOWAS”; Journal of Economic Thought, Journal of the Department of
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Economics, Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria, Vol. 2, No. 1,
June 2007.
Sillah, Bukhari M. S. "Services Trade and Domestic Regulation in the Gambia",
Cuts International, June 2008.
Sillah, Bukhari M. S., March/April, 2009, “Trade and Growth Linkages: Evidence
from the Gambia”. Journal of Applied Social Sciences (JASS), Vol.7, No.2, 2009,
University of Buea, Republic of Cameroon.
Jammeh, Muhammed, Sillah, Bukhari M.S. and Olaitan, Olubisi A. "
professionaliyzation of formal education towards the employment of students of
selected Senior secondary and post secondary institutions", Educational Research
Network for Central and West Africa, February 2009.
Sillah, Bukhari M. S. November/December, 2009, “Debt-Intermediation and the
Economic Growth: Is there Evidence in the Gambia”; Journal of Applied Social
Sciences (JASS), Vol.8, No.1 & 2, 2009, University of Buea, Republic of
Cameroon
Sillah, Bukhari M. S., "cost and demand functions of electricity in the Gambia
from 1982 to 2007", African Journal of Business Management Vol. 5(4), pp.
1184-1193, 18 February, 2011
Non-Peer Reviewed Publications:
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“Case Study on the Impacts of IMF Policies on the Achievement of
Education Millennium Development Goals in The Gambia”, sponsored by
Action Aid International the Gambia; Publishers: Action Aid International
the Gambia.
Research Works in Progress:
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Bank efficiency and effects of risk factors on it in the Gulf Cooperation Council
Countries.
Bank-based financial intermediation: A further Interpretation of Tsurus' Model
with application to Saudi Economy
Employee Financial Wellbeing in the Gambia
Rapid oil consumption: income asymmetry and long run income elasticities in
GCC countries join paper with Professor Dermot Gately, New York University
and Dr. Hamad Al-Sheikh, King Saud University.
Migration in Africa: How is it driven by poverty, political risk and climate
change?
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Unpublished Seminar Papers:
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“Neo-Keynesian Analogy: Credit Constraint as a Source of Unemployment in the
Gambia”, 08/02/2006. University Seminar Paper, University of the Gambia,
Kanifing, the Gambia.
“Economic and Political Emancipation of Africa”, 01/05/2006, Friendship Hostel,
The Gambia Armed Forces in honour of the visiting Nigerian Armed Forces.
“Financial Services Case Study of the Gambia”; University Seminar Paper,
University of the Gambia, 05 – 12 – 2007, Kanifing, the Gambia
Conference Papers:
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“The bank – growth nexus: case of Palestine 1994 – 2011”, Proceedings of
World Islamic Banking, Finance and Investment Conference 17 – 18 December
2012, Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
“Scoping Study on China-Africa Economic Relations: Case of the Gambia”,
AERC Conference, Dare Salam, Tanzania, 28 -30 November 2007.
“Use and Interpretation of Macroeconomic Indicators”; WAIFEM’s regional
Forum on the Role of Parliament in Achieving the Millennium Development
Goals, April 7 – 11, 2008, Banjul, the Gambia
Consultancies and Professional Works:
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“Basic Statistics Training” for the junior staff of the Gambia Bureau of Statistics
from November 2006 to May 2007. It was sponsored by Capacity Building
Economic Management Project (CBEMP).
“Project Completion Report (PCR)” for the IFAD and Gambia Government Rural
Finance Community Initiatives project (RFCIP), July 2007.
“ Microfinance Needs Assessment Study”, Funded by Concern Universal for
National Cooperative Credit Unions of the Gambia (NACCUG), October 2007
“Service Sector and Domestic Regulation Review”, funded by Consumer Unity
and Trust Society International (CUTS International), December 2007.
Professional Memberships:
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Head, Quality Unit, Department of Economics, CBA, King Saud
University, 09/2014 – to date
A member of Postgraduate Committee of the Economics Department,
King Saud University: 2010 – to date.
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A member of Accreditation Committee of Economics Department,
College of Business Administration, King Saud University, 2011 – to date.
Academic Board Member of the Collaborative Masters Programme of
African Economic Research Consortium: 2006 – 2009.
A Sahariah Board Member of Takaful Insurance Gambia Ltd: 2008 – 2009
A member of the Steering Committee of the West African Research and
Innovation Management Association: 2007 – 2008.
A Commissioner of the Gambia Competition Commission: 2008 – 2009.
Professional Skills Development:
Name of the skills
Econometrics:
Macroeconometrics,
Microeconometrics, and
Time Series Econometrics
Distinction in Postgraduate
Lecturing towards
postgraduate studies of
international standards
Development of University
Course
Skills of Effective
University Teaching
Assessment Skills of
Student Performance
Mini Teaching
Team-based Learning
Blackboard Use in Learning
Development of Digital
Course
Organizer and Sponsor
Timberlake, University of
Cambridge, UK
Date and Place
19 – 26 July 2014, Clare
College, University of
Cambridge, UK
Deanship of postgraduate
Studies, King Saud
University
26 – 27 /01/ 1431
King Saud University
Deanship of Skills
Development, King Saud
University
Deanship of Skills of
Development, King Saud
University
Deanship of Skills of
Development, King Saud
University
Deanship of Skills of
Development, King Saud
University
Deanship of Skills of
Development, King Saud
University
Deanship of E-learning and
Distance Education
Deanship of E-learning and
Distance Education
23 – 24/ 02/ 2010
King Saud University
15 – 16/ 03/ 2010
King Saud University
27 – 28/ 04/ 2010
King Saud University
22 – 24/ 05/ 2010
King Saud University
25 – 26/ 12/ 2010
King Saud University
22 – 29/ 12/ 1432
King Saud University
02 – 13/ 03/ 2010
King Saud University
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Community Services and Services to King Saud University:
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A member of Postgraduate Committee of the Economics Department, King Saud
University: 2010 – to date
 Member of Accreditation Committee, Department of Economics, King Saud
University, 2010 – to date
 Consultant in the Office of the Vice rector for Quality and Development, King
Saud University, 2009 - 2011
 “Principles of Islamic Economics”, 20/05/2006. Kotu Senior Secondary School,
the Gambia.
 Resource person for the Global Campaign against Poverty in November 2006. My
functions included speaking on the role of the International Financial Institutions
in impoverishing the Developing Countries. The speech was aired on City Limits
radio and Gambia Radio and Television Services.
 Participated as a resource person in the Global Campaign Against Poverty, which
was conducted almost nationwide in the Gambia, November 2005
Language proficiency:
Language
English
Arabic
German
Reading
Excellent
Excellent
Good
Speaking
Excellent
Excellent
Good
Writing
Excellent
Excellent
Fair
Computer Languages:
Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Shazam, E-Views, Stata and Scientific WorkPlace
Referees:
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Professor Dr. Hans-Werner Wohltmann
Institute of Economics
University of Kiel
Wilhelm-Seelig-Platz 1
D-24118, Kiel, Germany
Tel: 49 431 880 1446
Fax: 49 431 880 2228
Email: [email protected]
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His Excellency Dr. Hamad M. Alsheikh
Vice Minister
Ministry of Education
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Email : [email protected]
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Professor Andreas L. Steigen
University of Bergen
Norway
E-mail : [email protected]
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