SULEIMAN SA’AD, BSc, MSc, Ph.D.
Department of Economics and Management Sciences
Nigerian Defence Academy
PMB 2109 Kaduna, Nigeria
    suleimansaad@gmail.com : +2348078240916

EDUCATION:     Ph.D., Energy Economics and Policy, University of Surrey, Guildford United Kingdom, October 2009.
-    Dissertation:  Comparative analysis of Energy Demand in Energy Exporting and Energy Importing Developing Countries. (a case study of South Korea and Indonesia)
 
MSc, Economics, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, July 1995
-    Thesis:  External Debt & Net- Resource Transfer in Nigeria .1980-1996

BSc, Economics, University of Maiduguri, July 1995
-    Project: Impact of SAP on Import Substitution  Industries in Nigeria  A case study of Peugeot Automobile Nigeria Limited
National Diploma in Business Administration, Kaduna Polytechnic, 1990.


Professional Courses:

    Oil and Gas Industry Fundamentals, Energy Institute, London.
May 15-18, 2007.
    Economic and Risk Analysis of Petroleum Projects, Energy Institute, London, October 29-30, 2007.

MEMBERSHIPS/AWARDS:    International Association for Energy Economics
  Energy Institute, United Kingdom
  Nigeria Economic Society
  Petroleum Technology Development Fund:
  Awarded scholarship for PhD in Energy Economics
  International Association for Energy Economics:
  Awarded a scholarship for 2008 conference in Istanbul Turkey
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS:    Microsoft Applications (MSWord, Excel, Power Point)

Econometric Software(EViews, Microfit, STAMP, Origin Pro)
LANGUAGES
SKILLS:      English: Fluent
  French: Passing
  Arabic: Passing
Employment History        Salesman: Frontier Agricultural and Technical Services Limited,Yola 1984-85
    Customer Assistant:Interstate Flour Mills Limited,Yola 1990-91
    Assistant Lecturer in Economics: Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna,2001-09
    Lecturer I in Economics:  Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, Nigeria,2009 -10
    Seniour Lecturer Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, Nigeria,2010
•    Head, Department of Economics and Management Sciences, 2010 to 2012
•    Visiting Research Fellow: Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Oxford, United Kingdom, June 2013 to June 2014
   



INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

1.    .    Sa’ad, S (2007), Technical Progress and Exogenous Factors in Energy Demand: the case of South Korea.  Paper presented at 31st IAEE International Conference Wellington New Zealand.

2.    Sa’adม S. (2007), Underlying Trends and Technical Efficiency in Aggregate Energy Demand: the case of South Korea and Indonesia Paper presented at 30th IAEE International Conference Taipei, China.

3.    Sa’adม S. (2008), Transportation Demand for Petroleum Products in Developing Countries: A  Comparative Study of South Korea and Indonesia. Paper presented at 32nd IAEE International Conference Istanbul, Turkey.

4.    Sa’adม S. (2011), Price and Income Elasticities of Demand for Oil Products in African Member Countries of OPEC: A Cointegration Analysis:  Paper presented at the United States Association for Energy Economics, Washington DC.


JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

1.     Sa’adม S. (2009), ‘An Empirical Analysis of Petroleum Demand for Indonesia:  Using Cointegration approach. Energy Policy Vol. 37 Issue 11 P.4391-4396, Elsevier .com.

2.     Sa’adม S. (2009), Electricity Demand for the South Korean Residential Sector.  Energy Policy Vol. 37 Issue 12 P.5469-5474, Elsevier .com.

3.     Sa’adม S. (2009), Transportation Demand for Petroleum Products in Indonesia: A Time Series Analysis. OPEC Energy Review June, pp.140-154, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK.

4.      Sa’adม S. (2010), Improved Technical Efficiency and Exogenous Factors in South Korean Transportation Demand for Energy: An Application of Structural Time Series Analysis. Energyม the International Journal, 35 pp. 2745-2751,Elsevier.com.

5.     Sa’adม S. (2010), Energy Consumption and Economic Growth:  Causality Relationship for Nigeriaใ OPEC Energy Review March, pp.15-24. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK.

6.     Sa’adม S. and Isa M.N. (2010), Multivariate Analysis of the Relationship between Oil Exports, GDP and Industrial Production in Nigeria ,  Journal of Economics and Allied Fields,University of Abuja, Nigeria.

7.     Sa’ad, S. (2011), Underlying energy demand trends in South Korean and Indonesian
 Aggregate whole economy and residential sectors, Energy Policy 39, 40-46

8.    Sa’ad, S. (2014),Modelling of Household Energy Demand in South Korea: The Role of Energy Efficiency Programes Bulletin of Energy Economics 2(1) 7-13

9.    Sa’ad, S. and Ya’u H.,(2015), Oil Resource Curse Syndrome: Empirical Evidence from Nigeria
  (Accepted for Publication) Journal of Economics and Sustainablev Development


PERSONAL
ATTRIBUTES:    I have very broad and intensive training and experience, the ability to work with people from all walks of life and from all cultural, religious and ethnic background. A capacity to use most modern econometric techniques to analyze complex energy data, interpret and draw policy implications for the result. I have published six scholarly articles from reputable international Journals, presented several papers at international conferences.
I am currently conducting a research on the Energy Sector of Nigerian economy. The research involve an indept analysis of the challenges and prospects of Energy Demand, Upstream and Downstream sectors of oil industry in Nigeria vis a vis the international experience in other developing countries.

REFEREES:
    •        Professor Lester C. Hunt
Director,Surrey Energy Economics Centre,
University of Surrey, UK
L.Hunt@surrey.ac.uk

•        Professor Bassam Fattouh
57,WoodstockRoad
Oxford,OX26FA
United Kingdom
bassam.fattouh@oxfordenergy.org
•        Professor Jibrin M. Jibrin 
Head of Department, Department of Soil Science, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria.
jmjibrin@yahoo.com