Subhash Sharma

Dr. Subhash C. Sharma was appointed to the SIU Board of Trustees by Gov. J.B. Pritzker on March 22, 2019.

Dr. Sharma is professor emeritus of economics at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. During his 35-year teaching career, he served as the department’s director of undergraduate studies, director of graduate studies and department chair.

Dr. Sharma chaired or co-chaired dissertations of 40 Ph.D. students and served on other 85 Ph.D. dissertation committees across campus, supervised 18 master’s research papers and served on another 23 master’s research paper committees.

An active researcher, Dr. Sharma is a Fellow of the Midwest Econometric Group, an executive editor of the Journal of Asian Economics, and an editorial board member of the Applied Economics Journal.

His research interests concentrate on economics, finance and statistics, and he has published 85 papers in these areas. Much of his research appeared in top journals such as the International Economic Review, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Development Economics; Journal of Productive Analysis; Journal of Asian Economics; Journal of Banking and Finance; Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking; Journal of Multinational Financial Management; Australian Journal of Statistics; Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods; and Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation.

During his tenure at SIU Carbondale, Dr. Sharma has been involved in civic service both at the local and state levels and co-authored multiple Economic Impact studies for the State of Illinois.

Dr. Sharma received his bachelor’s (Honors) in mathematics and master’s degree in mathematical- statistics from the University of Delhi and his Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Kentucky in 1983.