Introduction
Dr Niaz Asadullah received his Doctorate degree in the Economics of Education from Oxford University in 2005. He is currently a Professor of Development Economics at Monash University Malaysia. Previously he held visiting positions at Harvard, Oxford, Malaya, Manchester, Kent, Dhaka, BRAC, Chulalongkorn and Mindanao State Universities. His research relates to education, labor market, skills formation, poverty and gender issues with a focus on South/East Asia. In addition to 50+ peer reviewed journal publications, Prof Asadullah has published numerous policy commentaries and opinion pieces on education issues in the international media (print as well as electronic).
Expert
Dr Niaz Asadullah is an Associate Editor of International Journal of Educational Development (Elsevier) the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (Taylor & Francis), the Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (Springer Nature), and on the editorial advisory board of 'COMPARE: A Journal of Comparative and International Education' (Taylor & Francis), Asia Pacific Education Review (Springer) and Feminist Economics. He is the lead author and principal investigator of the global study on the state of education quality in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries and a key contributor (on faith education and gender) to the UNESCO Gender Report 2022. He has also consulted for the World Bank, Global Education Commission, Oxford Policy Management and the Asian Development Bank. His research in the field of education have looked at a wide range of issues such as (i) the rise of Islamic schools and its social impact (ii) behavior and impact of non-state schools (iii) gender stereotypes in school textbooks (iv) inequality of educational opportunity (v) labor market returns to schooling and skills (vi) learning crisis (viii) learning continuity during school closure (ix) digital divide vs parental divide in the context of homeschooling (x) social returns to education
Fields of expertise: Education, Gender equality