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Vice Chancellor, Dr. Ali Cheema is a distinguished economist whose research focuses on economic development with an emphasis on human capital, inclusion and economic mobility, gender dynamics, and political economy. 

Associated with LUMS since 1999, he has served distinguished years as an Associate Professor of Economics and Politics, Director of the Mahbub Ul Haq Research Centre, and Chair of the Economics Department. 

Dr. Cheema has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, and was a founding member of the Stockholm Challenge Award-winning portal, Relief Information System for Earthquakes, Pakistan. 

He is a co-founder of the Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP), a Senior Research Fellow at IDEAS Pakistan, a co-lead academic of the International Growth Centre’s Pakistan programme, and an Invited Researcher at Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT. Presently, he serves on the Board of Directors of the State Bank of Pakistan. 

Dr. Cheema holds a PhD in Economics from Cambridge, an MPhil in Economics and Politics from Cambridge, and a BA (Hons.) in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. He was also a visiting Fulbright and SAI Scholar at Harvard Kennedy School in 2010-11. He joined as the sixth Vice Chancellor of LUMS in January 2024.

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Tel: +92 42 3560 8000 
Email: vc@lums.edu.pk

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Monday to Friday 
8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Relevant Publications

  • Strategic Priorities: Into the Next Decade (May 2022)

    This report highlights how far LUMS has come over the past 35 years and future growth prospects for the University. 

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  • LUMS Governance Structure (Sep 2009)
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  • White Paper on New Directions (Feb 2019)

    This white paper highlights opportunities for future growth and new directions for LUMS. It focuses on the interaction of intellectual and financial capital to produce a culture of innovation through research intensity, cutting edge curricula and high impact practices.

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  • Course Evaluations at LUMS (Aug 2019)

    This report offers a framework for re-envisioning course evaluations by referring to the literature on course evaluations and the current discourse on the evaluation of teaching . The report also recommends how the framework can be operationalized through best practices and examples from other universities.
     

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