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. 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. 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. 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.

Sairam Hussain Miran is a rising senior at the Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law. He is passionate about ensuring representative student government and class equality during his time as President. Outside of LUMS, he works as a Model U.N Coach and writes column pieces about national issues. He is a member of the LUMS Male Football Team and takes interest in sports and history. 

Alishba Inayat is the Junior Batch Representative in the Student Council from SSE, majoring in Computer Science. She chairs both the Welfare Committee and the Food and Pricing Committee, where she actively advocates for student interests and works to enhance the overall campus experience.

Arslan Tahir is currently serving as the MBA Representative in the Student Council at LUMS. He is passionate about student advocacy and is committed to enhancing the MBA student experience by fostering a supportive and collaborative environment.