Dr Hammed Musibau

Dr Hammed Musibau
 Position Research Fellow
 Org Unit School of Economics and Public Policy
 Email hammed.musibau@adelaide.edu.au
 Telephone 831 34639
 Location 10 Pulteney Street - Nexus 10 Tower ,   North Terrace

  • Biography/ Background

    Dr. Hammed Musibau is a Research Fellow and Government-Commissioned Research Economist at the School of Economics and Public Policy, University of Adelaide, Australia. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Tasmania, where his doctoral research focused on the determinants of economic growth, with particular emphasis on environmental quality and human capital.

    His research spans Environmental Economics, Macroeconomics, Labour Economics, Education Economics, International Trade, and Applied Econometrics. Prior to his current role, Dr. Musibau served as an Economist at the Queensland Government’s Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, and held academic positions as a doctoral researcher, lecturer, and research assistant at the University of Tasmania.

    Dr. Musibau has contributed to multiple projects evaluating the socio-economic impacts of energy policy reform, including the role of environmental performance and power dynamics in economic growth. He has developed educational outcomes data using factor analysis and the Chow Lin (1971) technique, producing annual series for 37 OECD countries, and has examined the effects of education quality on economic growth with support from the Tasmania School of Business and Economics.

    He also participated in the Queensland Pasture Resilience Program, a government-funded initiative addressing pasture dieback and declining land conditions affecting beef productivity. This collaboration involved the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Meat & Livestock Australia, and the MLA Donor Company. Additionally, he contributed to the review of the Breedcow and Dynama software used in livestock management across Queensland.

  • Qualifications

    Postgraduate/Professional Qualifications:

    · 2023 PhD in Economics, University of Tasmania, Australia        

    · 2023 Postgraduate Certificate, Research, University of Tasmania, Australia       

    · 2019 PhD in International Economics, Sultan Zainal Abidin University, Malaysia             

    · 2016 MSc in Economics, Northern University of Malaysia, Malaysia      

    · 2010 BSc. (Hons.) in Economics, University of Ilorin, Nigeria

  • Awards & Achievements

    Academic Awards – H. O. Musibau

    • 2017 – Best Paper Award, International Academic Conference on Business and Economics, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia Paper: “Does External Debt Cause Economic Growth? Evidence from ECOWAS Member Countries”

    • 2019 – Best Presenter Award, 3-Minute Thesis Competition, University of Tasmania, Australia

  • Publications

    Please refer to research profile.

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