Umer Chapra, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Umer Chapra

Saudi Arabian economist

Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1933

Place of Birth: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Profession: economist, academic

Nationality: Saudi Arabia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Muhammad Umer Chapra (born 1 February 1933) is a Pakistani-Saudi economist.
As of November 1999, he serves as Advisor at the Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI) of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Prior to this position, he worked at the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA), Riyadh, for nearly 35 years, as Economic Advisor and then Senior Economic Advisor.
He has also taught as Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin (Platteville), the University of Kentucky (Lexington), as Senior Economist and Associate Editor of the Pakistan Development Review at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, and as Reader (Associate Professor) at the Central Institute of Islamic Research (Pakistan). He has lectured widely at a number of universities and professional institutes in different countries around the world, including the Harvard Law School, Loughborough University, UK, the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, the London School of Economics, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, the University of Malaga, Spain, and Kyoto University, Japan.
He is on the editorial board of a number of professional journals and has acted as referee for a number of others, including the Economic Journal of the Royal Economic Society, UK, the Journal of Socio-Economics and the Thunderbird International Business Review.