Abdul Haque Chang Assistant Professor – Social Sciences & Liberal Arts
Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi

Adam Abdullah Assistant Professor- Social Sciences & Liberal Arts
Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi

Adnan Haider Professor
Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi

Afia Malik Senior Research Economist
Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad Pakistan

Amber Rahim Shamsi Director, Centre for Excellence in Journalism, Karachi

Aliya Hashmi Khan Former Dean Social Sciences & Director School of Economics
Quaid-i-Azam University Dr. Aliya Hashmi Khan is a Professor of Economics (Retired), former Director School of Economics and former Dean Faculty of Social Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. She has been a Member of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (EAC), a Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, State Bank of Pakistan, a Member of the Labour Expert Group (LEG) under the "Ehsaas" Social Protection Program, Government of Pakistan and Technical Expert/ Labour Economist at the Informal Economy Workers (IEW) Unit, Ministry of Poverty Alleviation & Social Safety, Government of Pakistan. She has also served as Chair of the National Poverty Estimation Committee, Planning Commission, Government of Pakistan. She is a Member Syndicate of the Rawalpindi Women University and serves on the Boards of Aurat Foundation, National Institute of Banking & Finance (NIBAF) SBP and on the Board of the Bank of Khyber. She was awarded the President's Medal – Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah 2010 in the category of Higher Education. The citation reads " In recognition of services rendered for economic empowerment of women by way of teaching and research".

Asma Hyder Professor of Economics & Dean SESS
Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi

Ayesha Zia Assistant Professor
Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi

Fatima Sadik Lecturer, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi

Franziska Ohnsorge Chief Economist, South Asia Region, World Bank

Hadia Majeed Associate Professor and Chair of Economics Department
Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Dr. Hadia Majid is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at LUMS. Her research agenda considers the impact of monetary and public resource constraints on individuals in Pakistan with a special focus on women's access to decent, empowering work. She has published in international journals and is currently editing a book titled Gender at Work in Pakistan. She has received grants from several agencies including ESRC-DFID, Oxfam, IDRC, IGC, IFPRI among others and has acted as a consultant for numerous government and non-governmental agencies on gendered labor market outcomes. A Fulbright scholar, she has a PhD from The Ohio State University and MSc from University of Warwick.
 

Ishrat Hussain Professor Emeritus and Chairman Centre for Excellence in Islamic Finance at the
Institute of Business Administration, Karachi
 

Jens Lowitzsch Professor at European University Viadrina
Kelso Professorship of Comparative Law, East European Business Law and European Legal Policy, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

Junaid Alam Memon Professor and Director CBER
Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi

Maheen Rehman Chief Executive Officer, InfraZamin

Masood Ahmed Siddiqui PhD Scholar, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi

Mudassir Zuberi Head of Business Development, K-Electric

Rabia Jaffar Behavioral Coach, Dept of Family medicine
Aga Khan University Hospital Dr. Rabia Jaffar is a clinical psychologist and has extensive experience in clinical therapy and practice at several institutions within Karachi. She is currently a behavioral coach at the Department of Family Medicine at Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi.  

Ratna Sahay Former Special Advisor to The Managing Director
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Ratna Sahay was a Special Advisor to the Managing Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Wahington DC, USA until March 2023. In her last assignment she spearheaded the IMF's first strategy for mainstreaming gender in its activities that cover 190 countries. During her 33-year career at the IMF she worked in several regional and functional department, leading mission to several countries, and heading policy projects in the areas of monetary policy, exchange rate policy, capital account, financial development, financial inclusion, and gender. She is currently an Honorary Professor at the National Council of Applied Economic Research in Delhi (India) and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington DC (USA). She is also serving on working groups of the G-20 and the World Economic Forum, is a member of the External Advisory Panel on Gender at the IMF, and a jury panel member for the Alliance of Financial Inclusion. She has published widely in leading journals. She has taught at Delhi University and New York University and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University, New York.  

Reinout Wiers Co-Director, Centre for Urban Mental Health
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Medical Centre Prof Reinout Wiers is a full professor of developmental psychopathology at the University of Amsterdam, internationally acclaimed for his work on assessing and changing implicit cognitive processes in addiction. He has published over 400 international papers, several books, and book-chapters. He has won the VIDI (2002) and VICI (2008) research grants from the Dutch National Science Foundation (N.W.O.) for research on implicit cognition and addiction and co-edited the Handbook of Implicit Cognition and Addiction (SAGE, 2006). He has been senior editor of Addiction, the no. 1 ranked journal in the field of substance abuse, since 2009, and serves on the editorial board of several other Addiction journals. He co-chairs the interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Mental Health at the University of Amsterdam.  

Saiful Mahdi Assistant Professor of Statistics
Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh

Sadaffe Abid s Founder & CEO CIRCLE

Samir Amir Director Research, Pakistan Business Council

Saima Saif Assistant Professor, Dept of Social Sciences & Liberal Arts
Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi Dr. Saima Saif is Assistant Professor at Department of Social Sciences and Liberal Arts at Institute of Business Administration. She has a PhD in clinical psychology and is a practicing clinical therapist.

Sajjad Haider Assistant Professor
Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi

Satyandara Nath Mishra Assistant Professor at School of Rural Management
XIM University, Puri, Odisha, India

Sarah Nizamani Research Fellow, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi

Shagufta Shabbar PhD Scholar, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi

Shameel Khan Consultant Psychiatrist, Compassion Couch; Co-Founder & Director Synapse Karachi Dr. Shameel Khan is a consultant psychiatrist and founder of Compassion Couch Psychiatry & Therapy Clinic, Karachi. He did his specialist training in psychiatry from Cambridge and East of England Deanery. In the past, he has served as Assistant Professor and post-graduate training program director for Psychiatry at Aga Khan University. His clinical experience includes both outpatient as well as inpatient work within the UK and Pakistan. His clinical interests include personality difficulties, treatment-resistant depression, eating disorders, and addictions. He has a special interest in Psychoanalytic psychotherapy and Group analysis as well as their applicability within the socio-psychological fabric of Pakistan.

Sundus Saleemi Senior Researcher- Center for Development Research (ZEF)
University of Bonn Sundus Saleemi is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Development Research of the University of Bonn, Germany. Her research interests are gender and feminist economics. She did her doctorate at the University of Bonn. Her doctoral dissertation, "The Empowerment of Women and Girls in Rural Pakistan; Migration, Decision-Making and Consciousness" explored the impact of changes in women's decision-making role in households on the gendered allocation of household expenditure for children's education. She has published in peer-reviewed journals including Feminist Economics. Her current research explores the impact of women's time burdens on their well-being and the well-being of their children in three countries in Africa. Previously, she worked as a Staff Economist at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE). She is a regular contributor German-English bilingual publication, Development and Cooperation. Her columns have also appeared in the Express Tribune Blogs and Jamhoor. She did her Master's and MPhil in Economics from the School of Economics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad.

Tanzil Shafique Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
University of Sheffield Dr. Tanzil Shafique is a Lecturer in Urban Design and Co-Director of the Postgraduate Programmes at The University of Sheffield School of Architecture. He is also an Associate of the Urban Institute. Previously, he taught at the University of Melbourne and the University of Arkansas. Tanzil's research looks at southern urbanism, pluriversal architectural practice and informal planning, mainly focusing on the ongoing adaptation and transformation due to climate change led by the local citizens. He received a British Academy grant in 2021 to convene Decolonial Cities Collective, a transdisciplinary knowledge common. Additionally, Tanzil co-convenes the Platform for Just Housing (Najjyo Abashon Moncho or NAM) and Bangladesh Climate Alliance, which work towards housing and climate justice with local activists and citizens. Tanzil's upcoming monograph is titled: City of Desire: An Urban Biography of the Largest Slum in Bangladesh (Bloomsbury, 2024).

Wali Ullah Professor
Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi