Shahruz Mohtadi, PhD

Employment History

• Suffolk University
  Associate Professor, Department of Economics (1998-present)
• Suffolk University
  Department Chair (2013-2018)
  Graduate Program Director, Department of Economics (1994-2006)

Biography

Shahruz Mohtadi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, College of Arts and Sciences, Suffolk University.  He holds a B.S. in International Business, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics from Louisiana State University. He is the author of several academic papers and a book A Guide to International Economics. His areas of specialization are International Economics, Money, Banking and Monetary Policy, Managerial Economics, and Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies.

Publications

• “International Trade Under President George W. Bush” in The George W. Bush Presidency, Volume II, Nova Publishing, New York, 2016
• "The Stabilization of the Effective Exchange Rates of the Less Developed Countries Under Alternative Exchange Rate Arrangements," Journal of Economic Development, Volume 13, No. 1, June 1988.
• "A Plan for the Creation of Supranational Currency," Proceedings, First Annual Symposium of the Institute for International Competitiveness, Radford University, April 1988.
• "An International Monetary System with a Single Currency," Proceedings, Journal of the Southwestern Society of Economists, Volume 16, No. 1, 1989.
• "Economic Justice in a New World Order" in Toward The Most Great Justice ed. Charles Lerche, Baha'i Publishing Trust, London. 1996.
• "Conflict and Harmony Among Nations: The Case of International Trade," in Healing the Body Politic, ed. Charles Lerche, George Ronald. Oxford. 2004.

Book

• A Guide to International Economics, Business Expert Press, New York, 2019.

Awards & Honors

• Student Government Association Faculty Member of the Year, 1991
• The Intercultural Initiatives Award, 1994