Mohammad Ziaul Hoque teaches finance at the Sultan Qaboos University of Oman. He is a visiting professor of Trisakti University of Indonesia and International Business Institute, Melbourne, Australia. Earlier, he taught at the RMIT University and Victoria University of Technology, Australia. He obtained his Ph.D in Finance from Victoria University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Hoque worked as Development Banker and Economist for twelve years in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is the Founder-President of Bangladesh Young Economists Association. He is the editor of Journal of Business and Policy Research. He has authored several books in economics and finance and a number of refereed papers in international journals.