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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dr. Zehra Waheed is currently Dean of Student Affairs at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. Looking after the affairs of a 5000+ student body, Office of Student Affairs (OSA) looks after key aspects of student life such as campus life and accommodation, sports, advisement and wellbeing, academic and disciplinary matters, student governance and societies.
Dr. Zehra has also led the Centre for Business and Society (CBS) since its inception in 2019. CBS is Suleman Dawood School of Business (SDSB)'s flagship centre and has been structured around the UN-SDGs framework. As Founding Director, her onus has been on ensuring that not only does CBS have international visibility, but that it embodies the vision and ethos of Pakistan's premier B-School - SDSB. The Centre provides an interface between practice and academia and has been curated as a space for innovative and inclusive conversations about matters that affect business practice - and its impact on wider society.
As an academic, Dr. Zehra is interested in project management, urban and business sustainability, especially waste and water management, with a particular interest in related practice and pro-environmental behavior. She has also conducted research in the areas of renewable energy.

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.

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.

Khawaja Zain ul Abdin is an Associate Professor at LUMS. He completed his M.B.A in Marketing and Masters in Media Communication. His research interests include social media marketing, journalism, and new media technology.

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.

Dr. Sanval Nasim is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). His primary research field is environmental and natural resource economics. His research work includes behavioural experiments on air pollution forecasts and information based pollution mitigation interventions, optimal control modelling of water resources, and cost benefit analysis of clean technology adoption. He obtained his PhD in environmental and natural resource economics from the University of California, Riverside in 2015 and a BA in economics mathematics and in history from Colby College in 2008.

Ali Raza is a historian specializing in the history of modern South Asia. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford and was a research fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. His research and teaching interests include the social and intellectual history of South Asia, comparative colonialisms, decolonization, and post-colonial theory.
Ali Raza's work has appeared in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East; South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies; Itinerario; South Asian History and Culture; and Contemporary South Asia. He is also the co-editor of The Internationalist Moment: South Asia, Worlds, and World Views, 1917-39 (Sage 2014), and the author of Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.

Safee Ullah Chaudhary received his B.S. in computer systems engineering from the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi, Pakistan in 2002. He spent the next four years at Ultimus Inc (HQ NC) serving in the software development group. He was the team leader for the design and development of Ultimus XML Formula Engine. He then proceeded to South Korea for graduate studies and obtained an M.S. and Ph.D. in 2008 and 2013, respectively. His doctoral research at the Department of Bio. & Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), was focused on computational modeling of multiscale cancer systems biology. He took an agent-based (multi-agent) approach to model tumorigenesis and uncovered the role of cell death in the Warburg Effect. This work also led to the development of the Electronic Cancer System (ELECANS), which is a next-generation modeling platform for applications in cancer systems biology. In 2014, he joined the Department of Biology at LUMS where he established the Biomedical Informatics & Engineering Research Laboratory (BIRL) which is now involved in the development of cutting edge techniques and software for applications in computational proteomics, systems biology and mobile health.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Dr. Arif Nazir Butt is the Professor at the Suleman Dawood School of Business at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. He teaches Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management in the graduate and PhD programmes.
He has published research articles in international journals including the Journal of Organizational Behavior, International Journal of Conflict Management, Human Performance Journal and Journal of International Business Studies. He has published cases in the North American Case Research Journal, Asian Case Research Journal, and the Asian Journal of Management Cases. He has presented papers at several international conferences.
Besides his academic engagements, he is a board member for Progressive Education Network (PEN), and Namal Education Foundation (NEF).
