Allam Hamdan is a Full Professor, listed as one of the World’s top 2% scientists list by Stanford University. Currently, is the Dean of College of Business and Finance at Ahlia University, Bahrain. Author of many publications in regional and international journals focusing at several accounting, financial and economic issues concerning the Arab world. In addition, he has research interests in educational related issues in the Arab world universities concerning educational governance, investment in education and economic growth. He was Awarded the First Prize of Al-Owais Creative Award, UAE, 2019 and 2017; the Second Prize of Rashid bin Humaid Award for Culture and Science, UAE, 2016; the Third Prize of Arab Prize for the Social Sciences and Humanities, 2015, and the First Prize of “Durrat Watan”, UAE, 2013. Moreover, Professor Allam achieved the highest (1st) scientific research citation among the Arab countries for five consecutive years according to ARCIF analytics.  On the professional side, he was appointed as an external panel member as part of Bahrain Quality Assurance Authority and National Qualifications Framework NQF as a validator, and appeal committee, General Directorate of NQF, Kingdom of Bahrain. He is also a Member of the Steering Committee in the International Arab Conference of Quality Assurance of Higher Education. Currently he is leading a mission driven process for International Accreditation for College of Business and Finance  by Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).

Supervision

Allam Hamdan has supervised many Bachelor degree projects in Accounting, MBA theses and projects and PhD theses in Brunel University.

Presentation

• Costandi, S., and Hamdan, A. (2015). “The Risk of Intellectual Decadence: Stakeholder Organizations and the Neglect of the Human Sciences in Universities in the Arabian Gulf”. Gulf Studies Forum, (Doha, Qatar: December 6-8).
• Hamdan, A., and Costandi, S. (2015). “The Relationship between Investment in Education and Economic Growth: An empirical study from GCC 1974-2013”. Gulf Studies Forum, (Doha, Qatar: December 6-8).
• Hamdan, A. (2015). “The Road Towards World Class Research Universities”. Fourth Annual Conference on the Social Sciences and Humanities, (Morocco: March 19-21).
• Hamdan, A., and Awwad, B. (2015). “The impact of higher education governance in the quality of scientific research: Evidence from Palestine, and Bahrain”. The Fifth International Arab Conference on Quality Assurance in Higher Education, (University of Sharjah, UAE: March 3-5).
• Debab, N., and Hamdan, A. (2015). “The E-learning, Case Study of Ahlia University”. The Fifth International Arab Conference on Quality Assurance in Higher Education, (University of Sharjah, UAE: March 3-5).
• Hamdan, A. (2015). “Evaluation of Islamic Banks Market Structure and its Relation with Profitability: compared study from GCC countries”. The Fifth Global Islamic Marketing Conference, (Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur: April 22-24).
• Hamdan, A., and Al-Sartawi, A. (2012). “The Impact of Global Financial Crisis on the Abnormal Returns of Islamic Banks Shares: Evidence from GCC Countries”. The Second Global Islamic Marketing Conference, (UAE: January 17-18).
• Hamdan, A. (2011). “The Impact of Capital Structure in the Level of Investment in Information Technology and Its Impact on the Performance of Jordanian Banks”. Conference of E-Business, (Zarqa University. Amman: March 15-16).
• Hamdan, A. (2015). “The Impact of Global Financial Crisis on the Abnormal Returns of Kuwaiti Banks Shares: Event Study”. The Impact of Financial Crisis on Arab World Conference. (University of Jordan, Amman: May 10-11).
• Hamdan, A., and Abzakh, M. (2010). “The (E-Auditing) and its Effect on the Evidences Quality: Evidence from Bahrain”. European, Mediterranean & Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems, (Abu Dhabi, UAE: April 12-13).
• Karim, A., and Hamdan, A. (2010). “The Impact of Information Technology on Improving Banking Performance Matrix: Jordanian Banks as Case Study”. European, Mediterranean & Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems, (Abu Dhabi, UAE: April 12-13).
• Hamdan, A. (2009). “The Role of External Auditing in Predicting Financial Crises”. The Impact of Financial Crisis on Business Organization, (Zarqa University, Amman: November 10-11).
• Abu Ijela, I., and Hamdan, A. (2009). “Corporate Governance and Earnings Management”. The International Financial Crisis and Corporate Governance, (University of Farhat Abbas- Setif,  Algiers: October 20-21).