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Christian is Professor of Economics and Head of Business School at Coventry University in Egypt at The Knowledge Hub. Previous to that, Christian was Head of Dept and Vice Dean Academic at the German University in Cairo. Before that, Christian was Principal Lecturer in Transnational Education, Economics and Management at the University of Bedfordshire. Christian was also Head of International - Malaysia as well as Principal Lecturer in Economics and Finance and Field Leader for Economics, Finance and Accounting at the University of East London. Prior to that he was a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Kingston University. Christian was also a Lecturer in Economics at Loughborough University and Cardiff University.
In 2015, Christian won the Ernst Wagemann price for best paper in economics in 2013-2014 in Applied Economics Quarterly. In 2009, Christian won a merit award at Kingston University.
Christian has studied economics at the Universities of Mainz, Glasgow and Strathclyde. He received his PhD from University of Strathclyde in 2001.
Christian is also Honorary Chair of the International Network for Economic Research (INFER) where he is active for many years. Christian has organised several Annual Conferences for INFER (and several workshops), which resulted in several special issues of journals and printed volumes. Christian's main areas of research are Behavioural Economics and Finance, Convergence of Business Cycles, Eurozone Crisis, Financial Economics, Time Frequency Analysis and Climate Change. Christian won research grants from the Leverhulme Trust as well as from the Austrian Central Bank.
Christian is an editorial board member of International Economics and Economic Policy and International Journal of Public Policy.