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Professor Ruhul Salim is a Professor of Economics in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance at Curtin Business School, Faculty of Business and Law, Curtin University. He earned his PhD in Economics from the Australian National University in 1998. Currently, he serves as Director of Graduate Research in the School of Economics and Finance, Director of the Centre for Research in Applied Economics (CRAE), and Deputy Chair of the Faculty Graduate Studies Committee. Previously, he was Deputy to the Dean of Research and Development at Curtin Business School in 2011 and Chairperson of Postgraduate Studies in the School of Economics and Finance until November 2012. His research focuses on applied economics, employing econometrics-based analyses to provide policy insights in areas such as energy economics, productivity growth, international trade, foreign direct investment spillovers, agricultural efficiency, economic development in emerging economies, urbanization and emissions, and resource economics. He has delivered invited speeches at high-profile forums, including the Council on Foreign Relations workshop on Oil Price Volatility in New York in 2016 and the Asian Development Bank Institute workshop on Urbanization and Infrastructure in Asia in Tokyo in 2016. Professor Salim holds the position of Associate Editor for the Journal of Economic Development and has secured multiple research grants totaling millions of dollars from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.