Dr. Ali Cheema serves as an Associate Professor of Economics and Politics at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences and is also the Director of the Mahbub Ul Haq Research Centre at LUMS. He joined LUMS in 1999 and served as the Chair of the Economics Department from 2004 to 2010.

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, an Invited Researcher at Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT, and a member of Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP).

Dr. Cheema has served as 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 (RISEPAK). He has also served on high-level provincial and federal government task forces and commissions, including the National and Punjab's Provincial Finance Commissions. Alongside, he is also a serving director of the Kashf Foundation and the State Bank of Pakistan.

Dr. Cheema's remarkable achievements will take LUMS further in its global vision for excellence.

Dr. Fazal Jawad Seyyed has been a faculty of finance at SDSB, since 2012. He spearheaded AACSB accreditation making SDSB the first business school in Pakistan to be accredited. Prior to joining LUMS, Dr. Seyyed, had very successful career spanning over 30 years as an Investment Banker, as well as professor at various institutions in the United States, Middle East, and Pakistan.    

Dr. Seyyed holds a PhD from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA. He is a member and charter holder of the CFA Institute, USA. His research work focuses on emerging financial markets and has appeared in several international journals. His current focus is on agriculture as a catalyst for the economic growth and development of Pakistan.  

Dr. Khan is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Bilquis Dawood Chair and Dean at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences at LUMS.

Dr. Aziz is one of the School’s founding members. She studied law at the University of British Columbia and gained her doctorate from the University of Melbourne Law School. She is an interdisciplinary scholar who has authored major works in constitutional law and history and has taught in the areas of jurisprudence, labour law and constitutional law.

Dr. Tayyaba Tamim is currently Associate Professor and Director Academics at the School of Education, Lahore University of Management Sciences. She is also the faculty lead for Pedagogical Partnership Programme at the LUMS Learning Institute. Dr. Tamim has her PhD from the University of Cambridge as a fully funded RECOUP scholar and MPhil RSLE (Research in Second Language Education Across Cultures) from Cambridge, UK as a British Council Chevenning scholar. In addition, she also has an MA ELT from Kinnaird College for Women University and MA English from the University of Punjab, Pakistan. Dr Tamim has led several funded research projects with national and international partners, including those with USAID, British council and the World Bank. She has also published and presented research papers at a number of national and international forums. Her work covers issues of social justice, equity and inclusivity in education with specific reference to languages in education, language policy, gender and caste. At LUMS she teaches Education for Social Justice; Inclusive Education and Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspectives to Education at graduate and undergraduate level. She is also a resource person for HEC and PHEC, offering in-service and pre-service training to university/ college faculty.

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.

Mr. Kheiri has permanently assumed the role of Director Human Resources (HR), for which he had been serving as Interim Director over the last two years. Faisal has overseen Information Systems and 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 Mr. Kheiri’s interim leadership, Human Resources has taken on difficult but important tasks of reviewing faculty and staff salaries, streamlining and automating HR operations, and developing a framework for organisational structure, career progression, compensation and rewards. Mr. Kheiri will also continue to oversee IT services at the University.

Dr. 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. 

Dr. 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.

Dr. Yaqub is Assistant Professor at the Suleman Dawood School of Business (SDSB). 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 behaviour analyses, data mining and studying the use of Twitter for campaigning during general elections. Dr. Yaqub has published in international journals and conference proceedings such as Government Information Quarterly, ACM Digital Government: Research & Practice and ACM Digital Government Research.

Dr. Yaqub 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, Dr.Yaqub teaches courses to undergraduates and MBA students in the area of Decision Sciences, Business Intelligence and Marketing.

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 the 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.

Dr. Khan is a literary historian, and a dedicated comparatist and close reader. She was trained in Comparative Literature at UCLA by Professor Aamir Mufti. She completed her 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.

Dr. Pirzadeh is an 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. Dr. Pirzadeh’s 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.

Dr. 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, Dr. Khan completed his Master of Philosophy 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. Dr. Khan is also a LUMS alumnus and graduated from LUMS with a BS in Electrical Engineering. 

At present, the focus of Dr. Khan’s research is understanding self-assembly mechanisms of liquid crystalline physical gels and applying 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.

Dr. Uppal received his BS degree in electronic engineering with highest distinction from GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, in 2002. He received the MS and PhD 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 Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering since October 2010.

Mr. Hashmi joined LUMS as an Assistant Professor in 1988 and has been working at the University for over 23 years. He is also the patron for the LUMS Adventure Society.

Dr. 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 the 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. 

Dr. Tariq joined Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering as an Associate Professor in 2009 and started developing the Biology programme. 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 programmes at the 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.

Dr. Rizvi has done his PhD in financial economics from the University of Paris 1 (Pantheon Sorbonne) and currently works at the Suleman Dawood School of Business. Dr. Abbas has been doing research 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.