He was born in Nablus in 1956, he holds a PhD in Economic Theory and Public Finance from the Free University of Berlin in 1994, a Master’s degree in Economics from Vanderbilt University/USA in 1984, and a Bachelor’s degree in Business and Economics from Birzeit University in 1981. He is professor of Economics at Birzeit University, where he held the position of the Chairman of the Department of Economics, and the Director of the Master’s Program in Economics from 1994-1999, and Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Economics from 1999 to 2004. He was appointed by Birzeit University as Director of Planning and Development in 2005, then, he held as Vice President for Planning, Development and Quality during the period 2006-2011. After that, he became the university Vice President for Administrative and Financial Affairs during 2011-2016 and during 2021-2023. He is currently working on a book on global political economy.

He was a visiting scholar at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and a visiting professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. His latest research work is part of a research team with UNFPA to draw up a report on the population in Palestine until 2050. He has research relationships with the Palestinian Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS), the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (MUWATIN), and the Chris Michelsen Institute in Norway.

His research themes include tax reforms and fiscal decentralization in developing countries, issues of higher education quality and institutional performance, and poverty and inequality issues. He also works as a consultant to numerous consulting institutions for the public and private sectors in Palestine.