VC Provost Council
This Council was created in January 2022 by the VC and Interim Provost to unite central academic services including the Registrar, and the Directors of Research, Programme Enhancement, Admissions, and Accessibility and Inclusion. Once a month, the team meets to share progress on their respective portfolios and discuss strategic responses to the ongoing needs and developments of the LUMS academic community.
Dr. Jadoon has been a faculty member at LUMS since 2001, and has served in various capacities including Associate Dean Undergraduate Programmes (2007), Registrar (2008-11) and Department Chair Electrical Engineering (2016-19).
As the first Registrar at LUMS, he oversaw a complete PeopleSoft Campus Management Implementation.
He is currently the Provost.
Dr. Zaffar received his PhD in Information Technology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) in 2010. Prior to joining LUMS as an Assistant Professor and Programme Coordinator for Management Science, he was a Visiting Lecturer in Information Technology Management in the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and an Associate member of the Graduate faculty in the Belk College of Business at UNCC. He has six years of teaching experience in the US in the areas of Information Systems and Operations Management at the undergraduate and graduate levels. His research interests include the development of decision support systems, technology and innovation diffusion; social networks and their impact on IS strategy and IS diffusion; agent-based computational economics, IS pedagogical issues and network location models in the context of disaster response and recovery systems. His research has appeared in several notable journals and conferences such as IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Decision Support Systems, Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Annual Conference of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), International Conference on Marketing, Workshop on E-Business and Workshop on Information Technology Systems.
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. 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 (SDSB), 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.
