Khalid Abdul Rahim Email & Phone Number

Website: http://profile.upm.edu.my/dr_khalidA professor at the Faculty of Economics and Management, Khalid Abdul Rahim started his career with the then Faculty of Resource Economics and Agribusiness in 1979. Recently he has been the Deputy Director of the Institute of Agricultural and Food Policy Studies, (February 2010 – January 2014). He obtained his doctoral degree in Resource and Environmental Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He teaches courses on microeconomics, resource economics and environmental economics both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He was the Coordinator of the Network for Environmental Training at Tertiary Level in Asia and the Pacific (NETTLAP) funded by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1994-1996 and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS Malaysia) during the same period. He has worked on international research contracts funded by UNCTAD, UNEP, UNDP, UNICEF, UN-ESCAP, EEPSEA, OECD, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) in the fields of Trade and Environment, Environment and Development, International Commodity-Related Environmental Agreements, Economic Instruments for Controlling Water Pollution and Economic Valuation of Coastal Resources. At the National level, he has carried out consultancies with the Sarawak State Government on Agricultural Development in the Kalaka-Saribas Districts, 1981-1982; Sarawak Land Consolidation and Rehabilitation Authority, 1989-1990; Petronas Gas Sdn Bhd on Petronas Gas, Utilization project, 1987-1992 and 1992-1995, the Malaysian Pepper Board on the socio-economic study of pepper farmers, 2009-2011, Economic Planning Unit on Agricultural Sector Modeling 2011-2012 and Iskandar Malaysia on Agriculture and Food Security 2013-2014.

Listed skills include University Teaching, Economics, Food Security, Lecturing, and 17 others.