Koutronas Evangelos

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Education Information

• 1995 - 2000 Bachelor of Business Administration – concentration: Finance

  University of La Verne, California, U.S.A.

• 2000 - 2003 Master (M.B.A.) of Business Administration – concentration: Finance

  University of La Verne, California, U.S.A.

• 2006 - 2009 Master of Economics – concentration: 1) Financial Economics 2) International Economics & Trade

  West Virginia University, West Virginia, U.S.A.

• 2019 - 2023 Master in Applied Mathematics – emphasis: Mathematical Modeling and Statistics

  West Virginia University, West Virginia, U.S.A.

• - 2024 Doctor of Science in Economics

  Ministry of Education, The Republic of Uzbekistan Nominated by the Westminster International University in Tashkent, which is affiliated with the Westminster University, UK, the Supreme Attestation Commission conferred the Doctor of Science in Economics, a higher Doctoral degree, by the Ministry of Public Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan implemented the Science Development Concept Decree by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev. The degree was awarded in recognition of a substantial and sustained contribution to economic science beyond that required for a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).

• 1989 - 1991 Diploma of Computer Science

  OMEGA Schools, Athens, Greece

• 1991 - 1991 Certificate of Computer Science

  PITMAN Institute, London, United Kingdom

Dissertation

• 2011 - 2016 Doctor of Philosophy in Economics – field of research: Social Security

  University of Malaysia (Malaya), Malaysia Dissertation: Untying Social Security's Gordian Knot: Profit Share Pension Arrangements DissertationPublications - Profit Share Labor Arrangements in Competitive Markets. (2017). Institutions & Economies, 9(3), 71-113. - Managing pension plan in an aging population: The dynamic profit-share pension model. (2017). International Journal of Management Studies, 23(2), 45-64. - Considerations in Pension Reforms: A Review of the Challenges to Sustainability and Distributive Impartiality. (2017). Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies, 54(1), 159-177.

• Pension economics, labor economics, epidemics economics, finance, the economics of terrorism, the economics of natural disasters, and game theory

• The Basic Manual of Social Security: Theory and Evaluation - An Introduction to Social Security (2020)
  Books & Book Chapters

  https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Manual-Social-Security-Introduction/dp/6203193615

• Alternative Analytical tools To Evaluate Natural Disasters Impact and Risk Reduction (2021)
  Books & Book Chapters

  https://www.elivapress.com/en/book/book-7448557739/

• An Introduction to the Hybrid Economic Models (2020)
  Books & Book Chapters

  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3505892

• The Evolution and Prospects of Social Security in ASEAN (2020)
  Books & Book Chapters

  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3762999

• Social Security in Malaysia: Stock-take on Players, Available Products and Databases. (2014)
  Other publications

  https://swrc.um.edu.my/images/SWRC/DOKUMEN%20PDF/SWRC%20WORKING%20PAPER%20SERIES/SSRC-Working-Paper-Series-2014-2.pdf

• Savings Adequacy Assessment: The Case of Malaysian Employees Provident Fund Members. (2016)
  Other publications

  https://swrc.um.edu.my/images/SWRC/DOKUMEN%20PDF/SWRC%20WORKING%20PAPER%20SERIES/SSRC-Working-Paper-Series-2_190515.pdf

• How Productivity Can Affect Pension Plan Systems: The Case of Japan and Malaysia (2017)
  Other publications

  https://swrc.um.edu.my/images/SWRC/DOKUMEN%20PDF/SWRC%20WORKING%20PAPER%20SERIES/SSRC-Working-Paper-Series-2017.pdf

• The Evolution of Social Security Research (2017)
  Other publications

  https://swrc.um.edu.my/images/SWRC/DOKUMEN%20PDF/SWRC%20WORKING%20PAPER%20SERIES/SSRC-Working-Paper-2017-5.pdf

• National Social Protection Fund: The Multi-Pillar Pension Fund (2018)
  Other publications

  https://swrc.um.edu.my/images/SWRC/DOKUMEN%20PDF/SWRC%20WORKING%20PAPER%20SERIES/SSRC2018-1_final.pdf

• Brexit under the economic prism of East and Southeast Asian regions (2019)
  Articles published in International Journals

  https://commons.datacite.org/doi.org/10.13140/rg.2.2.16886.86085

• Cost estimation and planning for HIV/AIDS oral healthcare services: a Malaysian experiment. B.M.C. Infectious Diseases 2012
  Articles published in International Journals

  https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2334-12-S1-P93

• 20. Book Review - Social Protection and Social Development: International Initiatives. (2016) by Julie. L. Drolet
  Articles published in International Journals

  https://ijie.um.edu.my/index.php/ijie/article/view/5030

• The Mega Distributed Lag Model (2016)
  Articles published in International Journals

  https://ce.vizja.pl/en/issues/volume/10/issue/2

• Hydrological hazard assessment: The 2014-15 Malaysia floods. (2017)
  Articles published in International Journals

  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212420917300596

• The quantitative and qualitative evolution of social security (2017)
  Articles published in International Journals

  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11135-017-0568-6

• Considerations in Pension Reforms: A Review of the Challenges to Sustainability and Distributive Impartiality (2017).
  Articles published in International Journals

  https://mjes.um.edu.my/index.php/MJES/article/view/2613

• Managing pension plan in an aging population: The dynamic profit-share pension model (2017)
  Articles published in International Journals

  https://e-journal.uum.edu.my/index.php/ijms/article/view/22102

• Profit Share Labor Arrangements in Competitive Markets (2017)
  Articles published in International Journals

  https://ijie.um.edu.my/index.php/ijie/article/view/4890

• The Multidimensional ports stock inventory and logistic control graphical modeling (2019)
  Articles published in International Journals

  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050919301176

• India-Pakistan War: How Painful and How Costly? (2019)
  Other publications

  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3343303

• National Social Protection Fund: The Multi-Pillar Employees' Provident Fund (2019)
  Articles published in International Journals

  https://myjms.mohe.gov.my/index.php/pjmh/article/view/5918

• An Introduction to Pensionomics (2019)
  Articles published in International Journals

  https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JEFAS-04-2019-0057/full/html

• The Impact of Brexit on Asia's Trade and Financial Markets (2019)
  Other publications

  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3308996

• The economic Gordian Knot of Brexit: An East Asian perspective (2019).
  Articles published in International Journals

  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11135-019-00895-5

• N-Non-Cooperative Games Under a Dynamic Multidimensional Graphical Prism (2019)
  Other publications

  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3391701

• Social Protection for All: The Next Step for the Malaysian Welfare (2020)
  Other publications

  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3633760

• COVID-19: The New Challenges and Restructuration of the World Economy in Century XXI (2020)
  Other publications

  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3566929

• The Networks Infection Contagious Diseases Positioning System (NICDP-System): The Case of Wuhan-COVID-19 (2020)
  Other publications

  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3548413

• The Evaluation of ASEAN-Members Pension Scheme Performance (2021)
  Articles published in International Journals

  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40609-018-00132-1

• The effects of Trump's trade policy on the Chinese economy (2022)
  Other publications

  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3976000

• The impact of COVID-19 on the economic performance of Wuhan, China (2019–2021) (2023)
  Articles published in International Journals

  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11135-022-01392-y

• Terrorist attack assessment: Paris November 2015 and Brussels March 2016 (2016)
  Articles published in International Journals

  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0161893816300138

• Stagpression: The economic and financial impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic (2021)
  Articles published in International Journals

  https://ce.vizja.pl/en/issues/volume/15/issue/1

• The Application of the Covid-19 Global Economic Impact Simulator (CGEI-Simulator) in China (2022)
  Articles published in International Journals

  https://ijie.um.edu.my/index.php/ijie/article/view/37640

• The impact of the Russian Aggression against Ukraine on the Russia-EU Trade (2022)
  Articles published in International Journals

  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0161893822000345

Supported Projects

• 2015 - 2016 Saving Adequacy among Retirees in Malaysia: Issue and Options.

  Social Security Research Centre (SSRC), Faculty of Economics & Administration, University of Malaya. Head of the project: Prof. Noor Azina Ismail

• 2011 - 2012 The Oral Health Status, Unmet Needs, Barriers, And Management Strategies For Dental Healthcare Among HIV/AIDS And Other Patients With Special Needs in Malaysia.

  Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya. Head of Project: Dr. John Jacob

Grant proposals

Activities in Scientific Journals

• 2023 Reviewer

  Journal of Mathematics

• 2023 Reviewer

  Journal of Mathematics

• 2023 Reviewer

  Journal of Contemporary Economics

• 2023 Reviewer

  Journal of Contemporary China

• 2023 Reviewer

  Sustainability

• 2023 Reviewer

  Contemporary Economics

• 2022 Reviewer

  Contemporary Economics

• 2022 Reviewer

  Agriculture

• 2022 Reviewer

  Contemporary Economics

• 2022 Reviewer

  Contemporary Economics

• 2022 Reviewer

  Contemporary Economics

• 2022 Reviewer

  Financial Innovation

• 2022 Reviewer

  Journal of Religion and Health

• 2022 Reviewer

  International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

• 2021 Reviewer

  Contemporary Economics

• 2020 Reviewer

  International Journal of Modeling, Simulation, and Scientific Computing

• 2019 Reviewer

  Economics Bulletin

Scientific Consultation

• 2019 External Examiner

  The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan. Ph.D. Candidate: Khalil Mudassar. Dissertation: "Corruption, Growth, and Institutions: An Economic Analysis" Supervisor: Dr. Rana Ejaz Ali Khan

• 2021 Guest Editor

  Contemporary Economics. Special Issue – Covid-19: Lessons and Challenges

Invited Congress & Symposium Activities

• 2022 Panelist Speaker

  Fairmont State University, Fairmont, WV – United States Department of Computer Science & Mathematics Panel Discussion: Graduate Research Experience.

• 2022 Presenter

  The University of Economics and Human Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Workshop: Latin America E-Workshop Series in Asia Topic: The war between Russia and Ukraine: Howe costly and how painful.

• 2022 Presenter

  Centre of Latin American Studies (CLAS), University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2022 Seminar: The Asia and Latin America Dialogues Topic: The Rise of BRICKS.

• 2022 Presenter

  Centre of Latin American Studies (CLAS), University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Workshop: Latin America E-Workshop Series in Asia Topic: The Rise of BRICKS: An update.

• 2023 Invited Judge

  Sunway University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. MsBA (Master of Business Analytics) Capstone Project

• 2021 Presenter

  Centre of Latin American Studies (CLAS), University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Seminar: The Asia and Latin America Dialogues Topic: A Comparative Study of the Malaysian and Chilean Social Security Models.

Citations

Academic_CV_02_20_2024_short.pdf

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