Mr. Mahmoud Karasneh is currently a faculty member in the College of Business & Economics at Qatar University. Previously he was a lecturer in the department of Banking and Finance at the American University of Madaba (AUM) in Jordan. Mr. Karasneh earned his Bachelors and Master Degree in Banking and Finance from the Yarmouk University in Jordan. Throughout his academic career, he has taught innumerable undergraduate level courses specializing in areas such as corporate finance, portfolio management and behavioral finance. Mr. Karasneh academic and research interest lies in portfolio management, assets pricing models and financial markets anomalies. He has published a number of research papers in internationally renowned Journals including the International Research Journal of Finance and Economics and the European Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Sciences