Majid is an accomplished and seasoned Economist and Policy Analyst with over 8 years of work experience in Malawi and around the world. He has a strong passion for macroeconomics, international economics, microeconomics, Islamic banking and finance, and socio-economic development research, business strategy and negotiation, client management, strategic leadership, pubic debt analysis, budgeting, project and resource management, monitoring and evaluation. A PhD Candidate in Economics at Gaziantep University, Türkiye, he holds an MA in Economics from Cukurova University, Türkiye, and a BA in Economics and Certificate in Business Information Technology, both from Zanzibar University, Tanzania. His primary research interest focuses on macroeconomics, monetary and fiscal Policy, international economics, economic policies, development economics, socio-economic development, time series and applied econometrics.
He has worked with the African Development Bank (Ethiopia), Pentecostal Life University (Malawi), University of Hebron (Malawi), Mukraj-Insights (now MintSurvey) (India), Pınar Tente Company and YUDE Trading (Türkiye) and Planning and Development Directorate in the Government of Malawi. He is a passionate researcher who has published in the African Development Bank Group Working Paper Series (2024) and in the book “World after the Pandemic: A Social Science Perspective” (2021). He has also contributed to peer journal reviewing from numerous journals, notably the Asian Journal of Probability and Statistics, Asian Journal of Economics, Business and Accounting, Asian Journal of Economics, Finance and Management, Journal of Economics, Management and Trade, and reviewing book chapters of Economics, Business and Management: Recent Advances.
Majid contributed to Ethiopia’s country policy reforms (notably market-based interest rate policy and adoption of market exchange rate), macroeconomic policy analysis, Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) and climate change finance policies. While working in the Malawi government, he successfully coordinated the World Food Programme’s (WFP) Projects, and supervised, monitored and evaluated social protection programmes, contributed to the development of policies and sectoral budgeting and analysis. He has also contributed to numerous projects in Tanzania and Pakistan