Dr. Franziska Lieselotte Ohnsorge Chief Economist, South Asia, The World Bank Franziska Ohnsorge is the World Bank Chief Economist for South Asia. In this role, she is responsible for leading the research program on key economic issues in South Asia to inform the policy debate and World Bank lending. Before starting this position, she was the Manager at the Development Economics Vice Presidency where she spearheaded the flagship Global Economic Prospects report. Prior to joining the World Bank, Franziska Ohnsorge worked in the Office of the Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and at the International Monetary Fund. Her research has been featured in peer-reviewed journals as well as policy publications and has covered a wide range of topics in international macroeconomics and finance, including debt and financial crises, inflation and monetary policy, as well as growth and informal labor markets. Her work has been widely cited, including in the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.

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

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

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.
 

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

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

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

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

Abida Naurin Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE)
Impact of Oil Price and Its Volatility on CPI of Pakistan: Bivariate EGARCH Model

Aisha Irum Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE)//NIPS
Expansionary Fiscal Contraction Hypothesis: An Evidence from Pakistan

Amir Hamza Marwan Institute of Business Administration (IBA)
Representation of the Fall of Kabul 2021 in Pakistani and Afghan Media: Examining Counterterrorism, Elite Officials, and Local People's Perspectives.

Bharat Diwakar Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Constructing Quality-adjusted Human Capital and its Distribution Across Countries

Farah Naz Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE)
An evaluation of comparative advantage of domestically produced edible oil crops: challenges & opportunities

Fizza Batool SZABIST University
Foreign Policy under Civilizational Populists in India, Pakistan and Turkey

Gaetano Perone University of Pisa
The relationship between labor market institutions and innovation in 174 European regions over the period 2000–2015

Gul Muhammad Rind Sukkur IBA University
Examining the Influence of Household Factors on Educational Achievement Inequality: An Analysis of ASER Data in Pakistan

Hadiqa Riaz Bahria University
Tourism for All: Assessing the Impact of Accessible Tourism on the Sustainability of Local Communities

Hafsah Batool Lahore college for women university Digital Literacy and Inclusive Growth: Examining Digital Empowerment of Female Students in Lahore

Hamza Rashid Institute of Business Studies, Kohat University of Science & Technology Leveraging
Student-Generated Social Media Data for Higher Education Marketing in Pakistan: A Netnographic Approach to Enhance Student Engagement and Branding

Hana Zahir Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
Why do inheritance reforms not increase women's access and control over land? Evidence from Punjab (Pakistan)

Jaweriya Naz NED University
Analysis of Sectoral Energy Demand in Pakistan

Jazib Mumtaz FPCCI Policy Research Unit
Analyzing Household Income Inequality: A Subgroup Decomposition of Generalized Entropy Measures

Kashfia Latafat Generation's School Political Party Negotiations with Non-Political Actors: A Case Study of Pakistan

Lucky Bizenjo Institute of Business Administration (IBA)
Relationship between Human Capital and Urban Growth

Madiha Hussaini SZABIST University
Resource Scarcity and Sustainability: Exploring the WEF Nexus

Minhas Majeed Khan University Of Calicut
Understanding the Non-Traditional Security Dimensions: Cyber Threat Landscape in Pakistan

Muhammad Aftab COMSATS University Islamabad
Financial integration and Exchange Market Pressure

Dr. Muhammad Faisal Ali Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
Accentuating the significance of individual opinions and indigenous knowledge about various environmental issues in Pakistan

Muhammad Kamran University of Loralai
Evidence from Factor Analysis of Sarsani's (1999) Teachers' Creativity Promotion Scale at the university level

Muhammad Omer State Bank of Pakistan (SBP)
Evaluating the Impact of Withdrawal of Telegraphic Transfer (TT) Charges Reimbursement on the Remittances from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)

Muhammad Rasheed Arshad University of Punjab
De-territorializing Linearity of Contemporary Globalization: A Decolonial Appraisal of Traditionalists in a Glocalized World

Muhammed Salim Anappattath M.E.S Mampad College (Autonomous)
Kerala's International Tourism Demand: An Inquiry Into The Validity Of The Standard And Regular Determinants

Muhammad Zeshan Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) Trade, Industry and Competition in Pakistan

Rashid Ali Baloch Indus University
Gender Differences in Teacher Efficacy: The Mediating Effect of Using Affective Outcomes in Teaching

Riffat Iqbal Information Technology University
Relationship of Educational Stress and Self-Compassion with Psychological Problems in Adolescents

Ruhma Anjum Information Technology University
Social media, Cultural Heterogenization, and Consumer Behavior in Pakistan: A Study of Generation Z and Generation X

Sadia Batool Karakoram International University
Gender Differences in Teacher Efficacy: The Mediating Effect of Using Affective Outcomes in Teaching

Salman Zaffar Institute of Business Administration (IBA)
Computational Calculation of Sovereign Default Probabilities: Pakistan's Case

Sana Younas National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
Exploration of Perceptions of Physicians Regarding Decision-Process Uncertainty in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Sara Mehran University of Engineering and Technology
Economic Policy Uncertainty and Stock Portfolio Optimization: Cross Country Wavelet-Based Approach

Sara Shabbir Institute of Professional Psychology 
Parentification and Machiavellianism among young adults: Role of Gender in a Correlational Comparative Survey

Shabana Kishwar Institute of Business Administration (IBA)
Revamping Development Planning and Budgeting in Pakistan

Shahnila Tariq University of Management and Technology  
Resilience, Mental Toughness and Mental Wellbeing in Police Officers

Shahid Razzaque Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE)
Choice of Contract and Repayment Rates in Group Lending with Mutual Decision Making. A Microfinance Experiment from Pakistan

Shazia Kousar Lahore college for women university Lahore
Globalization, Climate Variability and Food Security in Pakistan: The Moderating Role of Population Density

Sohail Ahmad COMSATS University
Investigating the Global Impact of the Islamic State (IS) and the Rise of Non-State Actors in Modern Security

Syed Irfan Ashraf University of Peshawar
Parachuting in: CNN's Clarissa Ward in Myanmar and Afghanistan

Syed Kafait Hussain Naqvi University of Kotli  
Demand Analysis of Energy Mix in District Kotli Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan

Isma Anum National University of Modern Language  
How Political Behavior is Influenced by Social Cleavage and Media Usage?

Prof. Dr. Leef H. Dierks Luebeck University of Applied Sciences  
Inflation, Monetary Policy, and the Sacrifice Ratio

Umer Khalid Policy Research Innovation Development and Education (PRIDE)
Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and changing World of Work: A Case Study of the Services Sector of Pakistan

Wajid Ali University of Perugia  
Appraising economic development: Estimating sub-national GDP for Pakistan through nightlights.

Zahid Pervaiz Department of Economics, National College of Business, Administration and Economics (NCBA&E), Lahore Inequalities of Opportunities: Some Insights from Pakistan

Zia Ur Rahman Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan Food-Water-Energy Nexus
in the perspective of green revolution, green energy, Legal and Institutional Framework: A Killian Based Adjusted bootstrap approach