Other positions held:

• Advisor Turkish Government on Turkish banking sector Islamic banking area
• Associate editor of “International Journal of Monetary Economics & Finance”
• Advisor to Saudi Monetary Fund on financial markets and regulations
• Advisor to Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, on Islamic banking Development, Germany
• Co-editor of “Islamic & Middle Eastern Finance and Management”
• Advisor Islamic Business and Finance, Dubai, UAE
• Advisor Ali Slovakia
• Associate editor of   “International Journal of Trade and Global Markets”
• Associate editor of   “International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies”
• Visiting Professor/external examiner Northampton University
• Visiting Professor UiTM Malaysia (advisor Centre of Islamic Banking)
• Advisor Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) on Islamic Banking, London

Leading advisor and trainer in area of Islamic banking and finance world-wide to financial institutions as well as academic institutions.  PhD supervisor in area of Banking, Finance, Corporate financial management, risk management, fund management, banking regulations, Islamic banking, international business  and other finance,  accounting and management related subjects with a number successful completions. Supervising a number of research students and as well as holds visiting professorial roles in universities all over the world. Authored over sixty peer reviewed research papers, which have been published in international journals and conferences.  A number of papers have been listed as “highly recommended and read papers by leading publishers. Have successfully supervised a number of PhD research students and had experiencing of organizing international level conferences and short courses.

Currently have been commissioned by Oxford University Press as a sole author as their core book on “Financial Markets and Institutions” as their lead author in banking and finance area. This first book titled “The truth about the Global Banking Crisis” and sold a number of copies. His second book “Islamic Banking and Islamic Finance” out recently and have been very well received. His third book “Financial Management Theory and Evidence” is expected to be out soon.

• Leading the UEL Centre of Islamic Finance
• Developing collaborative links
• Actively superivse PhD
• Lead subject area of Banking and Finance
• Oversee valdiation of running and management of Centre
• Launching overseas PhD and Master Centres

• MBA Islamic Finance
• MSC Financial and Risk Management

• FEM 205
• FE 3040
• FEM 118

• Omar Masood “Non-Performing Loans and Credit Managers’ Role:  A Comparative Approach from Pakistan and Turkey” International Journal of Business: Vol 15, No3. (2010).
• Omar. Masood, S. Moore and G.S.K Niazi “What really rules investment decisions: Head or Heart?”  Actual Problems of Economics- SSCI - Issue 109, Vol. 7, 278-293, July 2010.
• Omar Masood “Determinants of returns and decisions of fund managers: Survey evidence from four Turkish banks” Journal of Asset Management (2010) 11, 43–54.
• Omar Masood and Bora Aktan  “The State Of Competition Of The Turkish Banking Industry: An Application of The Panzar-Rosse Model”  Journal of Business Economics and Management, 11 (1): 131-145.
• Omar Masood  “Empirical Evidence on the Risk Management Tools Practised in Islamic and Conventional Banks” Qualitative Research in Financial Markets Vol.1 Issue 2, pp. 106-120, June 2010.
• Omar Masood, M. Bellalah and Walid Mansour “Co integration of Baltic Stock Markets in the Financial Tsunami: Empirical Evidence” “International Journal of Business:  Vol 15, Issue 1 (2010).
• Omar Masood “Islamic Banking and the Customers’ Preferences: the Case of the UK”, Qualitative Research in Financial Markets, Vol. 2, No. 3 (2010): 185-199 (Emerald, UK).
• Omar Masood “Housing Market Impact on Consumption in the UK” (accepted) in Journal of Housing Economics,
• Omar Masood “Behaviour aspects influencing the performance of Turkish Fund Managers” ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS REVIEW , VOL. 11 , No. 4 , 2009 pg. 299–318.
• Omar Masood and Bora Aktan "A discussion of impacts of financial regulations on - subprime crisis and implications for financial markets" “International Journal of Business:  Vol 15, Issue 1 (2010).
• Omar Masood “Balance Sheet exposures leading toward the credit crunch in the global investment banks” “Journal of Credit Risk” Volume 5/Number 2, Summer 2009.
• O. Masood and S. Chaudhary “Investment Decision-Making Process from the Risk Managers Perspective: A Survey Study with. Qualitative Research in Financial Markets Vol.1 Issue 2, pp. 106-120, June 2009. Award winning paper by Emerald.
• Omar Masood "The Rise of islamic Finance: Two-step Murabahah " - Malaysian Accounting Review, Vol 9, Dec 2010.
• O. Masood. And Bora Aktan “Fiscal Stimulus And Countercyclical Monetary Policies: Commentaries on Current Worldwide Depression” with Actual Problems of Economics-Covered by Thomson Reuters,  SSCI - Issue 106, Vol. 4, 244-261, April 2010.
• Omar Masood, Jamel E. Chichti, Mondher Bellalah and Walid Mansour “Credit Crunch” International Journal of Finance (forth coming)
• Omar Masood  “Selection criteria for Islamic home financing,  A Case study of Pakistan” Qualitative Research in Financial   March 2010, Issue 2 (to be published). 
• F.Fabozzi and O.Masood “Determinants of Non-Performing Bank Loans and Bad Loans Recovery in Emerging Markets: The Case of Pakistan," (Forth- coming) in Emerging Market Review
• Omar Masood, M. Bellalah and Walid Mansour “Financing Investment, Financing Constraints, and Cash low: Evidence from France”, (2009), Euro-Mediterranean Economics and Finance Review Vol 4, N° 2, pp. 24-44
• Omar Masood and Hosein Piranfar   “Modelling for the price/yield relationship of the T-bonds during the 2008-9 crises" International Journal of Finance and Economics (accepted).
• Bruno S. Sergi and Omar Masood “ Goldman Sachs and Leman Brothers: balance sheet exposures leading towards credit crunch ” (a)  Banking Journal for Money and Banking No. 3 March 2009.
• Bruno S. Sergi and Omar Masood “ Goldman Sachs and Leman Brothers: balance sheet exposures leading towards credit crunch ” (b)  Banking Journal for Money and Banking No. 4 April 2009.
• Masood O. and Aktan B “ Development and future prospects of Islamic banking in Bangladesh” International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, Vol 2, Issue 4, 2009.
• Omar Masood "Measuring risk and financial support in construction projects using Monte Carlo Simulation: the case of NPP" “Journal Investment Management and Financial Innovations" (excepted issue 4, 2010)
• Omar Masood “Why do Customers Patronize Islamic Banking? A Case Study of Pakistan” Qualitative Research in Financial   March 2010, Issue 2 (to be published). 
• “An Empirical Study on Banks Profitability in the KSA: A Cointegration Approach” Co-Authored with O. Masood and S. Chaudhary, African Journal of Business Management- Covered by Thomson Reuters, indexed by SSCI  Vol 3 No.8,pp. 374-382, August  2009)
• Omar Masood  “5th International Finance Conference” , IFC, Tunisia 2009, “Financial Crisis and Credit Crunch” .
• Frank J Fabozzi, Omar Masood and Radu Tunaru “Discrete Variable Chain Graphical Modeling for Assessing the Effects of Fund Manager Characteristics on Incentives Satisfaction Managers and Size of Returns” Vol 13, No. 3, April 2007 in The European Journal of Finance.
• Omar Masood and Bora Aktan “Determinants of non-performing loans: A comparative analysis” with O. Masood, Actual Problems of Economics-SSCI-Vol.12, Issue 102, pp. 251-263, December 2009
• Omar Masood and E. Teker, P.E. Mandaci “Characteristics Of Fund Managers And The Performance In Emerging Financial Markets: Evidence From Turkey” “Investment Analysts Journal”
• Omar Masood and Walid Mansour “Measuring Competition in the Saudi Arabian Banking Industry: A Rosse-Panzar Approach”, (2009), forthcoming in Euro-Mediterranean Economics and Finance Review Vol 4, N° 3, pp. 175-188
• “Impact of political events on emerging equity markets: The case of Pakistan” with O.Masood, Actual Problems of Economics,   SSCI - Issue 107, Vol. 5, 284-302, May 2010.
• Omar Masood and Bora Aktan “Wavelet based systematic risk estimation on Baltic stock exchanges” “Baltic Journal of Management” (forth coming).
• Omar Masood  and R. Tanaru “ An analysis of factors driving the investment decisions process for Fraud Managers of a larger bank” The Business review, Cambridge, Vol 8, No. 2, December 2007.
• Omar Masood and Bora Aktan "A discussion of impacts of financial regulations on - subprime crisis and implications for financial markets" Journal of Financial Regulations and Compliance" (forth coming).
• B.Aktan, O. Masood and S. Yilmaz (2009) "Financial Shenanigans and the Failure of Ethics in Banking: A Review and Synthesis of an Unprecedented Fraud" Journal of Banks and Bank Systems, Vol. 4 Issue 1, pp. 31-37, 2009.
• Masood O., Jamel E. Chichti and Walid Mansour “Islamic bank of Britain: Case study analysis”   International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, Vol 2, Issue 3, 2009.
• Omar Masood and Kadom Shuber “Islamic banking in UK and Bank selection criteria of an Islamic bank services in United Kingdom” “ Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management (accepted).
• Omar Masood “Financial Sector Management and Efficiency In Emerging European Markets” at Annual London Conference On “Money, Economy and Management, July 2008.
• Masood O. and Aktan B “Islamic banking: a study of customer satisfaction and preferences in non-Islamic countries” International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, Vol 2, Issue 3, 2009.
• Omar Masood and Walid Mansour Determinants of Non-Performing Bank Loans and Bad Loans Recovery in Pakistan: A Survey Approach (2009), Euro-Mediterranean Economics and Finance Review Vol 4, N° 2,
• O. Masood, B. Aktan and S.Chaudhary "Investment Decision making process from the risk managers perspective: survey study" Qualitative Research in Financial Markets Vol 1 , Issue 2, Pg. 106 – 120.
• E.Clark, O. Masood and R. Tunaru “The Effect of Political Events on the Pakistan Stock Exchange 1947-2001”, International Journal Investment Management and Financial Innovations, Vol 5, Issue 3, October 2008.
• Omar Masood and Walid Mansour “Measuring Competition in the Saudi Arabian Banking Industry: A Rose-Panzar Approach”, (2009), Euro-Mediterranean Economics and Finance Review Vol 4, N° 3, pp. 175-188
• Omar Masood “How competitive is the market landscape of the Chinese banking sector?” Ekonomický Časopis Covered by Thomson Reuters, indexed by SSCI.
• Omar Masood “Failure of Risk Management Models in the Financial Tsunami: A Case of AIG Fiancial Products” (accepted) in Journal of Risk Model Validation
• Omar Masood and Bora Aktan  “Fund managers performance in Turkey: An Empirical Evaluation” Presented in 6th International Annual Scientific Conference of Business and Management” 2010 Vilnius, Lithuania.
• Bruno S. Sergi and Omar Masood “Political Events and Pakistan’s Stock Exchange” in International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies, Vol 1, Issue 4, 2008.
• Omar Masood and Chris Stewart “Predicting business failure: Determinant of non-performing loans and banking costs: Turkish banking crisis" 2009, Vol. 11, Issue 2, “International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management in the Special Issue on Measuring and Managing Financial Risk.
• Omar Masood “The Impact of Competition, Regulation and Privatization on Performance of Commercial Banks in Pakistan” International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies (accepted) to be published in issue 6 (2010).
• Masood O., Jamel E. Chichti and Walid Mansour “Role of Islamic mortgages in UK”   International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, Vol 2, Issue 4, 2009.
• Omar Masood  “Financing Investment, Financing Constraints, and Cash Flow: Evidence from France”, (2009), Euro-Mediterranean Economics and Finance Review Vol 4, N° 2, pp. 24-44
• Masood O. and Aktan B. “Determinants of non-performing loans: a comparative analysis”. Actual Problems in Economics, Vol. 12 Issue 4 2009.
• Omar Masood and Radu Tunaru “An analysis of Factors Driving the Investment Decision Process for Fund Managers of a Large Bank” Vol 8,No.2 December 2007 in The Business Review, Cambridge.
• Chris Stewart and Omar Masood “Determinants of Returns and Decision Making of Turkish Fund Managers : survey evidence from four banks” Vol 3, No. 2, June 2007 in International Review of Business Research Papers.
• Omar Masood “Key Drivers Investment Decision Making Process for Fund Managers of Large a Bank”  in International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, Vol 1, Issue 3, 2008.
• Bruno S. Sergi and Omar Masood “Quantitative   Measurement  of Economic Sectors Effect on the Non-0il GDP in United Arab Emirates” in International Journal of Trade and Global Markets, Vol 1,Issue 3, 2008. 
• E. Clark, O. Masood and R.Tunaru   “Political Events Affecting the Turkish Stock Exchange: An Analysis of the Past and Forecasting the Future” presented QQASS Special issue conference July 2007.
• Special Issue: Future of Emerging Markets and Islamic Banking after The Global Financial Crisis of the Journal: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies (accepted) to be published in issue 1.
• “An Analysis Of Islamic Banking Industry In The Republic Of The Sudan” Special Issue: Future of Emerging Markets and Islamic Banking after The Global Financial Crisis of the Journal: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies (accepted) to be published in issue 1.
• Omar Masood “ Quantitative measurement of economic sector effect on the non-oil GDP in United Arab Emirates March – May’09 issue of i-manager’s Journal on Management pg 34-46.
• Omar Masood “The linkages between Characteristics of Investors and stick returns: An empirical inquiry in Istanbul stock exchange” Presented and 5th International Conference on Business, Management, and Economics (ICBME 2009, Turkey).
• Omar Masood “The Growth and The Rise of Smaller Islamic Banks: An Analysis of The Last Decade” Special Issue: Future of Emerging Markets and Islamic Banking after The Global Financial Crisis of the Journal: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies (accepted) to be published in issue 1.
• Omar Masood and Bora Aktan “Estimating the Linkages among Bond Prices, Yields and Volatility” Presented in 2010 2nd IEEE International Conference on Information and Financial Engineering (ICIFE 2010)
• Omar Masood "Financial Crises and Turkey's experience" 12th International Conference on Finance and Banking-Silesian University, 28-29 October 2009-,Ostravice, Czech Republic
• Financial Regulations and Subprime Crisis (Annales d’Economie et de Gestion: a Tunisian review) April 2009.

Advisor to a number of professional bodies in area of Islamic Banking and Risk Management