Amir Farmanesh امير فرمنش
Assistant Professor, Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." -Romi
Graduate Teachings: Virginia Commonwealth University, Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs: Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration: * PPAD 716: Economics and public policy, [Fall 2011] * PPAD 722: Survey of data analysis techniques for public policy and administration [Spring 2012] * PPAD 722: Macroeconomics and policy analysis, [Spring 2012]
Master of Public Administration: * PADM 624: Quantitative Methods for Public Administration, [Spring 2012]
University of Maryland, Smith School of Business: Master of Business Administration: * BUDT 733: Data Analysis for Decision Makers, [2011]
University of Maryland, School of Public Policy: Executive Master in Public Management: * PUAF Exec: Policy analysis for managers, [Syllabus, 2011]
* PUAF 610: Quantitative aspects of policy analysis, [Syllabus, 2010]
Erasmus University Rotterdam, International Institute of Social Studies: * Anti-corruption policies, 2010 * Good governance practices, 2010
Sharif University of Technology: * Econometrics approach to development studies, Summer 2007, [English] [Persian]
Research Interests: * Link to my academic papers at EconPapers
List of my working papers: * Business-enabling environments: credit to finance and corporate tax * Business Bribery Index (BBI): A cross-country study of business bribery * Illicit financial flows in East Africa * Asking the hard questions: Sensitive topics and difficult environments, a study in survey methodology
An article about my grassroots experiences: (International Studies Journal, Vol. 1, No. 3, Winter 2005) An old interview with me (PDF)
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Short bio:
Amir Farmanesh is a faculty member at the Wilder School of
Government & Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University conducting
research on governance transformations related to business-enabling
environments, financial flows, and fiscal policy of development. In 2009, he was selected as a policy fellow with
the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
In the past, he has worked for several units of the World
Bank and the United Nations and has been involved with the United Nations (UNEP
- UN-Habitat) Governing Councils and was a member of the United Nations
Environment Program advisory council. During his involvement with Iranian civil
society, he cofounded Iran Civil Society House, an umbrella organization for the
coalitions of NGOs.
Before joining VCU, Amir has taught graduate courses on quantitative analysis
and managerial policy analysis at the University of Maryland Smith Business
School and School of Public Policy. He has published papers on financial flows
and business bribery, the impact of scale economies on spatial allocation of
economic activities, and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. He has
received a Master of Public Administration and an M.A. in International
Relations both from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. His Ph.D. is on
Policy Studies working with economics Nobel laureate Thomas Schelling as his
advisor at the University of Maryland, College Park.