Rashid Mekki Hassan is the Professor and Director at the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA) at the University of Pretoria.
Hassan holds a BSc and MSc., both in Agricultural Economics, from the University of Khartoum in 1977 and 1983 respectively.
He proceeded to Iowa State University where he got MSc and Ph.D. degrees, both in Economics, in 1988 and 1989 respectively.
[1][2] Hassan is the professor of economics at the University of Pretoria where he studies natural resources management.
[3][4] He was elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in April 2019.