PERSPECTIVES ON KURDISTANS ECO

Almas Heshmati is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea. His research interests include applied microeconomics, globalization, development strategy, efficiency, productivity and growth with application to manufacturing and services. In addition to more than 100 scientific journal articles, he has published books on the EU's Lisbon Treaty, global inequality, East Asian manufacturing, the Chinese economy, technology transfer, information technology, water resources, landmines, power generation, and development economics. Professor Alan Dilani is a founder and General Director of the International Academy for Design and Health (IADH) in Stockholm, Sweden. He is co-founder of the journal World Health Design. Professor Dilani has been engaged worldwide in several universities in the field of Design and Health, developing a "Psychosocially Supportive Design Program", in Medical and Design institutions. He received his PhD in Health Facility Design from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Professor Serwan M.J. Baban is Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources of the Kurdistan Regional Government. He has served as Vice Chancellor of the University of Kurdistan Hewler (UKH). His academic and management career was developed through working in universities in the UK, the Caribbean, Australia and Iraq. He has founded and directed several successful research centers and institutes worldwide. He has published over 150 journal papers, book chapters and conference proceedings, in addition to three edited books.