Vice Chancellor LUMS &  Chair of the University Council

Dr. Ahmad completed his PhD in Educational Psychology at McGill University and was a Professor of Finance at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada for over 20 years.

In 2014, he was appointed Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning and Director of the MacPherson Institute at McMaster University. He also held academic leadership positions as Chair of Teaching and Learning Canada, President of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, and Vice President of the International Consortium of Educational Developers.

In 1992, he was awarded the 3M National Teaching Fellowship--Canada’s most prestigious recognition of excellence in educational leadership and teaching at the post-secondary level. His research interests include student evaluations of teaching, approaches to teaching, teaching philosophies and student partnerships.

In 2018, he became the sixth Vice-Chancellor of LUMS.

Interim Provost

Tariq M. Jadoon completed his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland in 1998 for research in Traffic Characterization and Performance Evaluation of High Speed Networks.  Prior, he received his BSc (Hons) degree in Electrical Engineering from the NWFP UET, Peshawar in 1991 and MSc (Communications, Control & DSP) in 1993 from Strathclyde.

Before joining LUMS, he worked at the NWFP University of Engineering & Technology (UET), Peshawar where he co-founded the Center for Computer Information Systems Engineering and taught at the EE department.  He has been on the LUMS faculty since 2001, and has served in various capacities including Associate Dean Undergraduate Programmes (2007), Registrar (2008-11) Department Chair EE (2016-19) and is currently serving as Vice-Provost.  As the first Registrar of the LUMS he oversaw a complete PeopleSoft Campus Management Implementation and steered the quarter to semester transition in 2009.  On Sabbatical from LUMS in 2011-12 he worked in the Software Industry for Techlogix, Singapore PTE implementing an ERP solution for Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) in conjunction with IBM Global Services.

His research interests lie in the area of network modeling and simulation, teletraffic, VoIP and IoTs and is a member of the System and Networking Research Lab (SysNet) at LUMS.

Dean of SDSB

Dr. Alnoor is a Professor of Management Accounting, and the Founding Director of ‘LSE Entrepreneurship’ at the London School of Economics (LSE). He has also headed the Department of Accounting at LSE during his 30 years’ service at the institution. His academic work and research interests include management accounting in the digital economy, international comparative financial management, strategic finance, the socio-cultural analysis of accounting systems and aspects of globalisation, governance and financial management, entrepreneurship and economic growth.

Dr. Alnoor is an advocate for quality education and innovation; an accomplished scholar and a dedicated teacher. At LSE, he taught the first course ever on Internet Entrepreneurship. He has authored over 100 publications including bestselling books in financial management, technology and digitisation. He is connected with tech-entrepreneurs and sits on business school Advisory Boards in Africa, America, Europe and Asia. Dr. Alnoor has been associated with SDSB in the capacity of an Advisor for the past few years; while being a part of the Advisory Committee of SDSB.

He holds an Undergraduate degree from King’s College London UK, an MBA from Cornell University USA where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He has also obtained a PhD from London School of Economics UK. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant from Canada. In 2016, Professor Bhimani was conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Science in Economics and Business Administration by the University of Aalto in Finland. The degree was in recognition of his research leadership in management accounting and its impact on the research agenda and orientation of the field across Europe.

Dean of MGHSS

Ali Khan is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Dean at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences at LUMS. His research interests vary from labour issues to popular culture in Pakistan focusing particularly on cinema and sports. Ali Khan's book Representing Children: Power, Policy and the Discourse on Child Labour in the Football Manufacturing Industry of Pakistan was published in 2007 by Oxford University Press. He is also the General Editor for a series of seven books on Sociology and Anthropology in Pakistan. His last two projects have resulted in co-authored and edited books on cricket - Cricket Cauldron (I.B.Tauris, 2013) – and Pakistani cinema – Cinema and Society (Oxford University Press, 2016). A second edited collection on cinema was published in 2020 and a new book manuscript on cricket and society is ready.  Ali Khan has an MPhil and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in England.

Dean of SBASSE

Dr. Muhammad Sabieh Anwar is Professor of physics, Ahmad Dawood Chair and Dean at the LUMS Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering. He helped establish the physics department at LUMS and was among the principal founders of the School’s experimental facilities and curriculum. Ideas from his physics instructional laboratories have been replicated in ten Pakistani universities. He has played an important role in introducing innovative learning tools, mostly revolving around insightful homegrown physics experiments, in Pakistan’s universities. His lectures are interspersed with in-class live demonstrations and are widely viewed over the internet.

Sabieh’s research interests encompass spintronics, magnetism and optics. Sabieh has published around eighty research articles in international journals including Science, the Physical Review series, Optics Express, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. He is also Director of the upcoming National Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, wherein the lab—the Laboratory for Quantum Technologies—aims at making new discoveries in quantum science and technology.

Sabieh is the General Secretary of the Khwarizmi Science Society which is focused on the popularization of science at the grassroots levels. The Lahore Science Mela curated by Sabieh has attracted more than fifty thousand visitors over a span of six days in three years. Prior to joining LUMS SSE in 2007, Sabieh was a post-doc in chemistry and materials science at University of California, Berkeley and a PhD student, as Rhodes Scholar, at the Oxford University. He is the recipient of the TWAS medal in physics for Pakistan in 2008 and the National Innovation Prize in 2015. He is member of the task force on the Culture of Science in the Muslim World, the National Committee on R&D constituted by the Higher Education Commission, and serves as Advisory Board Member of some Pakistani Universities.

Dean of SAHSOL

Dr. Sadaf Aziz is Associate Professor at the Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law. One of the School of Law’s founding faculty members, she has taught in the areas of Jurisprudence and Labour Law. Her research focuses on issues such as the interplay between Islamic and secular legality, the political impact of rule of law narratives and is broadly situated within the field of law and society.  Her book, The Pakistani Constitution; A Contextual Analysis, is forthcoming in Spring 2017 (Hart Publishers). Dr. Sadaf completed her doctoral dissertation at the University of Melbourne. Over the past few years, she has held visiting fellowships at the universities of Cambridge, Michigan, Oxford and NYU.

In 2022, Dr. Sadaf Aziz was appointed Dean of SAHSOL, making her the first-ever female dean in the University's history. 

Dean of SOE

Faisal Bari is an Associate Professor of Economics at LUMS. He is also the Director of Academic Programmes at the School of Education (SOE) at LUMS. His current teaching interests are in the areas of economics of education, game theory, microeconomics and industrial organization. His research interests are also in the same areas. He writes a fortnightly column for the daily Dawn. 

Dean of Student Affairs

Adnan Zahid graduated with a PhD in Marketing from the CASS Business School, City University, UK, in 2010. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Suleman Dawood School of Business, LUMS. His research focuses on exploring consumption through a socio-cultural lens. He is interested in issues of status consumption, acculturation, gender, religion and consumer culture.

Dr. Zahid completed his MBA at LUMS, an MSc at Oxford University, and a PhD from City, University of London. Having served as the Director of Undergraduate Studies at SDSB, he recently returned to LUMS after working as the Director of the Namal Institute in Mianwali.

Registrar

Ms. Zara Qizilbash is an experienced professional in Higher Education Management, with a demonstrated history of working in Communications and Business Development. She is skilled in Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Analytical Skills, Data Analysis, and C++, with an MA (Oxon) focused in Physics from Somerville College, University of Oxford. 

Head of IST 

Mr. Faisal Kheiri has permanently assumed the role of Director Human Resources, for which he had been serving as Interim Director over the last two years. Faisal has overseen Information Technology at LUMS for over ten years, and has worked in the higher education sector for 20 years. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Anthropology and a Master’s in Computer Science.

Under Faisal’s interim leadership, HR has taken on difficult but important tasks of reviewing faculty and staff salaries, streamlining and automating HR operations, and developing a framework for organizational structure, career progression, compensation and rewards. Faisal will also continue to oversee IT services at the University. 

Assistant Professor, SDSB

Dr. Ussama Yaqub is Assistant Professor in the Suleman Dawood School of Business at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. As a Fulbright scholar, he obtained his PhD in Management Information Systems from Rutgers Business School, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey.

His research focuses on social media data analyses, including sentiment and behavior analyses, data mining and studying the use of Twitter for campaigning during general elections. Ussama has published in international journals and conference proceedings such as Government Information Quarterly, ACM Digital Government: Research & Practice and ACM Digital Government Research.

Ussama holds MBA from LUMS and has six years of work experience in the areas of Business Intelligence and Data warehousing. Prior to his PhD, he had been working as Assistant Manager - Micro-Segmentation in the Business Intelligence department at Telenor Pakistan and as a consultant in Teradata Global Consulting Centre. 

At SDSB Ussama teaches courses in Undergraduate and MBA programs in the area of Decision Sciences, Business Intelligence and Marketing.

Professor, SDSB

Dr. Syed obtained his PhD in Business from Macquarie University, Australia in 2008 and completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education at the University of Kent, UK. He also attended Institute for Management and Leadership in Education (MLE) at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. His PhD research inquired into the relational perspective of cultural diversity management in Australian organisations. Prior to that, he received a Masters of International Business degree from the Western Sydney University, Australia.

Dr. Syed is an Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), UK and Programme Chair of European Academy of Management’s (EURAM) Gender, Race and Diversity in Organisations (GRDO) Special Interest Group. He is a director of the Global Centre for Equality and Human Rights (GCEHR) and coordinator of the South Asian Academy of Management (SAAM).

Dr. Syed was conferred the Sitara-e-Imtiaz on August 14, 2011 by the President of Pakistan for his contributions and public service in the field of equality and diversity management.

He has been associated with University of Huddersfield as Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Diversity Management since 2014, and was with the Kent Business School at the University of Kent prior to that.

Assistant Professor, MGHSS

Dr. Maryam Wasif Khan a literary historian, but also a dedicated comparatist and close reader. She was trained in Comparative Literature at UCLA by Professor Aamir Mufti. She completed my undergraduate degree at Princeton University, where she majored in Comparative Literature and received a minor in European Cultural Studies. Her first book, Who is a Muslim? Orientalism and Literary Populisms (Fordham University Press, 2021), argues for a renewed interrogation of the European scholarly discipline and cultural practice, orientalism, and its influence on modern vernacular literatures. It shows how the Urdu literary canon, particularly prose, is formed around the orientalist question of who constitutes a Muslim in colonial and later, postcolonial, South Asia. The book spans some three centuries and takes its archive from both England and North-India in an effort to highlight how the Urdu literary formation becomes the authority-designate on questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship. Her second project revisits both her undergraduate studies in literature at Princeton and engages with her present teaching to think through the possibilities contained in canonical Western texts once they are dislocated from the Euro-American academy. 

Assistant Professor, MGHSS

Saba Pirzadeh is assistant professor of English and environmental literature. A Fulbright fellowship recipient, she completed her PhD in English (Theory and Cultural studies) and graduate certificate in Women and Gender Studies from Purdue University. She has taught courses on introductory composition, literature and environment, young adult fiction, ecological disaster, Renaissance drama, Victorian novel, nineteenth and twentieth century American literature. Her scholarship is informed by postcolonial ecocritical perspective and examines anthropocentric violence, resource extractivism, climate crisis, petroculture, territorial appropriation, hydropolitics, interspecies relationality and socioecological justice in literary narratives. Another research interest is based on popular culture and its articulation of the ideological and material realities of the postcolonial experience. Her work has received support from the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (Munich) and Bucknell Humanities Center (Pennsylvania). She is an editorial board member of South Asia Research. 

Assistant Professor, SBASSE

Dr. Ammar Khan completed his PhD studies from the University of Cambridge. The focus of his PhD research was studying the application of disc-like (discotic) liquid crystals as hole transport layers in hybrid organic/in-organic dye-sensitized and perovskite solar cells. Furthermore, he also studied the interaction of liquid crystalline phases with two-dimensional graphene layers for display and lasing devices. Prior to his PhD, Ammar completed his Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) degree in the Engineering Department at the University of Cambridge, as a member of St Edmund’s College. His MPhil research was focused on the development of random lasers using Organosiloxane Smectic A liquid crystals as a distributed resonant cavity. Ammar is also a LUMS alumni and graduated from LUMS with a BS in Electrical Engineering.

At present, the focus of Dr. Ammar’s research is understanding self-assembly mechanisms of liquid crystalline physical gels, and apply them to DSSCs to increase the stability and lifetime. Furthermore, the interaction of organic-semiconductors with two-dimensional materials is also being investigated for chemical and biological sensing applications.

Associate Professor, SBASSE

Momin Uppal received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering with highest distinction from GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, in 2002. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, in 2006 and 2010, respectively. He spent the summers of 2009 at NEC Labs of America, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey as a research assistant, and the summers of 2012 at Texas A&M University Qatar as a visiting researcher. He has been associated with the LUMS School of Science and Engineering since October 2010.

Associate Professor, SAHSOL

Adnan Sattar holds an MA in Human Rights from University College London and an LLM with Distinction from the University of Nottingham, UK. He obtained his PhD in Law from Middlesex University where he also taught an undergraduate course in criminal justice. Converted into book from, his doctoral dissertation was published in 2019 by Routledge under the title, Criminal Punishment and Human Rights: Convenient Morality.

Sattar’s research and teaching interests lie primarily in the area of human rights law and penal law with a focus on both theory and practice. He is particularly interested in bringing inter-disciplinary perspectives to bear on the study of law. Prior to entering academia, he worked for a number of years as a human rights practitioner. He has considerable research and training experience in human rights, labour rights, child protection, migration and refugee issues, and sustainable development. He has been a consultant to Amnesty International, Oxfam, and Save the Children besides several domestic NGOs and thinktanks in Pakistan. 

Associate Professor, SOE

Gulab Khan acquired his PhD in 2013 in educational theory and policy from the College of Education, Pennsylvania State University, United States. He holds a master of science degree in chemistry and a master of education degree in educational leadership and management. With over 20 years’ experience in the field of education (K through higher education) in both private and public sectors, his professional journey in education dates back to 1999 when he joined the Aga Khan Education Service, Pakistan (AKES,P), a subsidiary of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) as a substitute lecturer of Chemistry. At AKES,P, in his 16 years of association with the organization, he assumed different portfolios ranging from lecturer, principal, head of monitoring, evaluation and research, and manager academics. In 2015 he switched to higher education as an assistant professor at the University of Swat, a public sector university in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where he also assumed additional portfolio as the Director Advance Studies. In 2017, he moved to the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) in Islamabad. Afterwards, in 2018, Gulab joined Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education (SoE) at LUMS where he is currently working as an assistant professor. His research interests intersect at the nexus of education policy and practice on issues related to teacher quality, supervision, teacher status, educational leadership, and school improvement.]

Assistant Professor, MGHSS

Yasser Hashmi joined LUMS as an Assistant Professor in 1988 and has been working at lums for over 23 years. He is also the patron for the LUMS Adventure Society (LAS). 

Associate Professor, SBASSE

Muhammad Tariq received his PhD in Molecular Cell Biology from Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Switzerland. During his PhD, he worked in Jerzy Paszkowski's lab specializing in epigenetics of gene silencing in Arabidopsis. In 2003, he joined Renato Paro's lab as a postdoctoral fellow at Zentrum fur Molekulare Biologie Heidelberg (ZMBH). He was awarded prestigious EMBO long term fellowship for his postdoctoral studies elucidating a link between molecular chaperones, in particular Hsp90 (Heat shock protein 90), and epigenetics in Drosophila. He joined ETH Zurich as an Oberassistant (Senior Researcher) in 2006, where he continued his work on Hsp90 and Epigenetics in Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE), Basel, Switzerland. He joined Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering as an Associate Professor in 2009 and started developing Biology Program. He led the development of departmental vision and mission, curriculum and recruitment of one of the finest team of faculty in Pakistan who specializes in Cell and Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Microbiology and Biochemistry. In addition, he also led the development of biology research and teaching programs at undergraduate and graduate levels. 

His research interests include molecular link between epigenetic cell memory and cell signaling during development and the epigenetic basis of diseases. 

Associate Professor, SDSB

Syed Kumail Abbas Rizvi has done his PhD in financial economics from University of Paris 1 (Pantheon Sorbonne) and currently works at the Suleman Dawood School of Business, Lahore University of Management Sciences. Syed Kumail Abbas has been doing research in Financial Economics, Financial Markets and Financial Intermediaries. His recent interest are Financialization of natural and technological resources and the economic and financial cost of climate change and environmental degradation.

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