Professional & Educational Background

Dr. Rabiul Islam is currently an Associate Professor at the School of International Studies (SOIS) AACSB accredited under University Utara Malaysia since January 1, 2018. Prior to joining in UUM, he was a senior lecturer in the department of Economics. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Institute for Environment and Development, University Kebangsaan Malaysia. In addition, he obtained his PhD in Environmental Economics under the Institute for Environment and Development, UKM. Moreover, he completed bachelor and master’s in economics at the Islamic University, Bangladesh. He is an academic and a highly profile researcher. He has more than 18 years of experience in research as well as economics teaching and published over 160 papers in highly reputable journals and presented in international conferences in front of world-renowned audiences in the respective fields. He was invited as a keynote speaker in various renowned international conferences since 2021. He received excellent service award in 2021 and excellent publication award in 2022 for his academic and research excellence in University Utara Malaysia as a significant recognition. Furthermore, he also has Scopus H-index 16, Research gate H-index 24, Google scholar H-index 31 which shows the internationally recognized and outstanding achievements.

Research Interests & Expertise

Dr. Rabiul Islam core research areas are environmental economics, international trade, climate change, international studies, political economy etc. He taught several subjects in undergraduate and postgraduate level of economics or business related to which he applied different softwares in his field such as E-views, Stata, SPSS, SAS. Currently, he is focussing on his field specially energy diplomacy which emphasises more on qualitative as well as quantitative analyses. In addition, he focusses the climate change on fishing communities which estimate the vulnerability indexes.

Email: rabiul@uum.edu.my 

1. 2011 - PhD Environment and Development Economics, UKM, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2. 2004 - Master Economics, Islamic University, Bangladesh
3. 2003 - Bachelor Degree Economics, Islamic University, Bangladesh