Moamen Gouda is Professor of Middle East Economics at the Graduate School of International and Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), Seoul, South Korea. His research focuses on Institutional Economics of Muslim-majority Countries, Law and Economics of Islam, Economics of Crime and Terrorism, and Islamic Constitutionalism. He is a research affiliate at CESifo, MACIE, ERF, and Hamburg University’s Institute of Law and Economics.

Moamen Gouda received his Ph.D. in economics from Philipps-University Marburg. He received his MBA from Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, UK. His work has appeared in international journals such as Terrorism and Political Violence, Political Research Quarterly, Public Choice, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Economic Systems, Constitutional Political Economy, European Journal of Law and Economics and the British Journal of Middle East Studies, among others. His work has been cited in many media outlets including Arirang News, SBS, Economy Chosun, China Daily, National Affairs, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and the Harvard Crimson.