Dr. A.M. Tanvir Hussain
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
Department of Economics
Faculty
Faculty of Business and EconomicsAddress
A/2, Jahurul Islam Avenue
Jahurul Islam City, Aftabnagar
Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
- 2003—2009, Ph.D. in Economics, University of Wyoming, Wyoming, USA
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Dissertation Title:
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Rangeland Ecosystem Services: Hunting, Grazing and Wildlife Viewing
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Dissertation Committee:
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Prof. John Tschirhart (Chairperson); Prof. Jason Shogren; Dr. David Finnoff; Dr. David Aadland; Dr. Chris Bastian
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- 1997—2001, B.S. in Economics, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
I am an Associate Professor at East West University (EWU) and the Director of the Entrepreneurship Development Center (EDC). My academic background is in economics, with a particular focus on environmental and resource economics. I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wyoming, USA, where my research centered on building a General Equilibrium Ecosystem Model (GEEM) for studying the tradeoff between multiple ecosystem services in the western US rangelands. Prior to that, I obtained a BS in Economics degree from North South University, Bangladesh.
Throughout my career, I have been interested in applying economic principles to address environmental challenges, particularly in the areas of biodiversity, ecosystem services, and the economic impacts of climate change. My research has been published in journals such as the American Journal of Agricultural Economics (AJAE) and the Ecological Economics. I have also worked on economic impact assessment for development projects with organizations such as the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank, and Oxfam in Bangladesh.
At EWU, I usually teach courses in mathematical economics, microeconomic theory, and environmental and resource economics both at the undergraduate and graduate level. Prior to joining EWU, I worked as a Senior Researcher and Lecturer in Environmental Economics and Resource Management at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
Please find my updated CV here for more information.
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October 2022 – the present
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Director
Entrepreneurship Development Center (EDC), East West University
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May 2018 – the present
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Associate Professor
Department of Economics, East West University
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April 2015 – March 2018
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Senior Researcher and Lecturer
Environmental Economics and Resource Management
University of Freiburg, Germany
Composition: Teaching (45%), Research (45%) and Administrative (10%)
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May 2013 – March 2015
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Senior Researcher
Sustainability Economics Group
Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
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July 2010 – March 2016
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Assistant Professor (on leave since May 2013)
Department of Economics and Social Sciences
BRAC University, Bangladesh
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2006 – 2008
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Instructor, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Wyoming, USA
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2003 – 2007
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Teaching/Research Assistant, Department of Economics and Finance
University of Wyoming, USA
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2002 – 2003
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Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics
North South University, Bangladesh
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- Biodiversity and ecosystem services; trade-offs in ecosystem services
- Environmental valuation; valuation under risk
- Economics of climate change
- Pal, R., P. Banerjee, P. Thakkar and A.M.T. Hussain. (2021). Green firm, brown environment. The Manchester School 90(2): 107-121 (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/manc.12394)
- Hussain, A.M.T. and J. Tschirhart. (2013). Economic/Ecological Tradeoffs among Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity Conservation. Ecological Economics 93:116-127 (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800913001523)
- Hussain, A.M.T. and J. Tschirhart. (2010). Optimal Harvest Licensing when Harvest Success is Uncertain. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 92:125-140 (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1093/ajae/aap019)
- Haque, A.K.E., A.M.T. Hussain and A. Siddica. (2023). Impact of Climate Disasters on Human Trafficking in Vulnerable Coastal Districts of Bangladesh
- Banerjee, P., K. Basu, D. Chakrabarti, S. Datta, A.M.T. Hussain and R. Pal. (2021). Bidding behavior in second-price, BDM, and random nth-price auctions with interval private values. Under review
- Hussain, A.M.T., B. Huang and S. Baumgärtner. (2017). Synthesizing economic values of COMTESS ecosystem services
- Baumgärtner, S., W. Chen and A.M.T. Hussain. (2016). Willingness to pay for environmental goods under uncertainty
- Hussain, A.M.T., and E. Bari. (2023). Economic Valuation of Loss and Damage in the Crop Sector of Bangladesh. Final report submitted to Oxfam in Bangladesh
- Haque, A.K.E., A.M.T. Hussain, and A. Siddica. (2023). Impacts of Climate Change on Human Trafficking in Vulnerable Districts. Economic assessment report for the Ashshash project submitted to Winrock International
- Hussain, A.M.T., and A. Zaman. (2022). Flood Recovery Emergency Assistance Project (FREAP). Review and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors (RRP) submitted to the Asian Development Bank
- Haque, A.K.E., A.M.T. Hussain, B.A. Mallik, E. Bari, and A. Siddica. (2022). Development of the methodology for ecosystem valuation as contribution to the SCD/CPF, natural capital accounting and nature-based solutions. Final report submitted to the World Bank
- Zaman, A., and Hussain, A.M.T. (2022). Emergency Assistance Project – Additional Financing (EAP-AF). Project completion report (PCR) submitted to the Asian Development Bank
- Hussain, A.M.T., A. Siddica, and E. Bari. (2021). Developing an Alumni Profile for East West University. EWCRT Working Paper 20. Dhaka. East West University Center for Research and Training (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361548355_Developing_an_Alumni_Profile_for_East_West_University)
- Zaman, A., and Hussain, A.M.T. (2020). Participatory Small Scale Water Resources Sector Project (PSSWRSP). Project completion report (PCR) submitted to the Asian Development Bank
- Baumgärtner, S., B. Huang and A.M.T. Hussain. (2017). Sustainable Coastal Land Management: Trade-offs in Ecosystem Services (COMTESS). Final report submitted to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- Abdallah, W., S.M. Hashemi, B. Hassan, and A.M.T. Hussain. (2012). Food Security for the Ultra Poor (FSUP) Second Annual Outcome Survey Report. Final report submitted to the United Nations World Food Programme
- Attended the inception workshop Economics of Forest Restoration as Carbon Mitigation and Nature-Based Solution organized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN, March 2024)
- Invited to join the consultation workshop Material Footprint (MF) and Domestic Material Consumption (DMC) organized by the Strengthening Environment, Climate Change and Disaster Statistics (ECDS) Project of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS, November 2023)
- “Shadow-price valuation of multifunctional natural capital under different conceptions of sustainability”. Paper presented at the 20th Annual BIOECON Conference – Land-use, Agriculture and Biodiversity: Spatial and Temporal Issues, King’s College, Cambridge, UK (September 2018)
- “Shadow-price valuation of multifunctional natural capital under different conceptions of sustainability”. Paper presented at the AURÖ Young Researchers Workshop “Environmental and Resource Economics”, University of Osnabrück, Germany (February 2018)
- “Willingness to Pay for Public Environmental Goods under Uncertainty”. Invited presentation at the Laboratoire d'Economie Forestière, Nancy, France (October 2017)
- “Shadow-price valuation of multifunctional natural capital under different conceptions of sustainability”. Paper presented at the 2017 World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling, Barcelona, Spain (June 2017)
- “Willingness to Pay for Public Environmental Goods under Uncertainty”. Paper presented at the AURÖ Young Researchers Workshop “Environmental and Resource Economics”, University of Basel, Switzerland (February 2017)
- “Willingness to Pay for Public Environmental Goods under Uncertainty”. Poster presented at the Foundations of Utility and Risk (FUR) Conference, Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick, UK (June 2016)
- Attended the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Zürich, Switzerland (June 2016)
- “Willingness to Pay for Public Environmental Goods under Uncertainty”. Invited presentation at the Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop, Department of Economics, University of Manchester, UK (May 2016)
- “Willingness to Pay for Public Environmental Goods under Uncertainty”. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society, University of Freiburg, Germany (March/April 2016)
- “Insurance Value of Land Management Scenarios under Climate Change: Trade-offs between Ecosystem Services and between Stakeholder Groups”. Paper presented at envecon 2016, London, UK (March 2016)
- “Insurance Value of Land Management Scenarios under Climate Change: Trade-offs between Ecosystem Services and between Stakeholder Groups”. Poster presented at the BMBF Sustainable Land Management Final Conference 2016, Berlin, Germany (March 2016)
- “Willingness to Pay for Public Environmental Goods under Uncertainty”. Paper presented at the 17th Annual BIOECON Conference – Experimental and Behavioral Economics and the Conservation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Kings College, Cambridge, UK (September 2015)
- “Willingness to Pay for Public Environmental Goods under Uncertainty”. Paper presented at the 21st Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Helsinki, Finland (June 2015)
- “Insurance Value of Land Management Scenarios under Climate Change: Trade-offs between Ecosystem Services and between Stakeholder Groups”. Paper presented at ISEE 2014: Well-being and Equity within Planetary Boundaries, Reykjavik, Iceland (August 2014)
- “Willingness to Pay for Public Environmental Goods under Uncertainty”. Poster presented at the Summer School in Sustainability Economics: Intergenerational Equity and Efficiency under Uncertainty, Camp Reinsehlen, Germany (August 2014)
- Attended the 5th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Istanbul, Turkey (June/July 2014)
- Attended the Research and Writing Workshop in Environmental Economics and Policy. Jointly organized by the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economists (SANDEE) and the Economics Research Group (ERG), Jamuna Resort, Tangail, Bangladesh (September 2011)
- “Optimal Harvesting when Harvesting Success is Uncertain”. Paper presented at the 84th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International, Vancouver, B.C., Canada (June/July 2009)
