Jamil Ali Abdulkarim is an Assistant
Lecturer who joined Kurdology Center in November, 2017 coming from the
Department of Economics, College of Administration
and Economics at the University of Slemani. His Master’s Degree research thesis
(2008) focused on the role of Foreign Direct Investments in the developing
economies.
As a university lecturer
he has good collaboration with international scholars and fellows of the Institute
for Regional and International Studies (IRIS) as well as the American
University in Iraq / Slemani (AUIS) through participating in interviews,
round-table discussions and conferences to provide insights about current
political, financial and socioeconomic reality of Kurdistan Region of Iraq. In
addition to sharing information and facilitating individual and focus group
interviews with other prominent experts and academics currently serving in the
Higher Education and Scientific Research institutions.
He lectured courses on
Economics, Media, Business Administration, Banking and Finance and Accounting in public and private universities as well as technical institutes. Before his admission to the postgraduate
study in 2005, he was working in TV journalism between 1998-2012 as a news
editor, producer, reporter, interpreter and an editorial staff in Kurdsat
Broadcasting Corporation based in his home town. His professional work over the
years involved live coverage of political and military events which Iraq as a
whole and Kurdistan Region in particular witnessed in the past especially
during the Operation Iraqi Freedom from March, 2003 and onward.
Beside his commitments in the field of
academia, he is better known for being among the most prominent translators and interpreters in Kurdistan Region
with 15 years of experience as a translator
and interpreter working in media coverage, training courses and workshops on
human rights, advocacy, transparency, monitoring, preventing torture, GBV, detainees'
rights, capacity building for police and security officers, judges
and civil society organizations.
He had academic
exchange trip to USA as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar (2011) and stayed for more
than two years in the UK for a PhD candidacy. He also visited Jordan (2008) as
a news editor representing his media institution in the conference of endorsing
the Iraqi Media Code of Conducts.