Dr. Masahina Sarabdeen is an associate professor of economics at Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the International Islamic University Malaysia. She has about seventeen years of experience in teaching and research. Dr Masahina’s research interests include regional development, climate change, air pollution, the labour market, digital transformation, inclusive finance, Islamic economics and finance, environmental economics, energy, and applied econometrics, as well as quantitative and qualitative analysis. She recently received a grant for Islamic social finance research from the Ministry of Education, Saudi Arabia. Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University also granted her four different research project grants.