Professor Abderrahim Taamouti holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Montreal, Canada. Before joining Durham University Business School in 2014, Abderrahim held the position of Associate Professor of Economics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in Spain. His fields of specialization are Econometrics and Finance. He mainly works on Granger causality analysis, hypothesis testing, nonparametric estimation and testing, asset pricing, portfolio selection, and risk management.