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Dr. Asma Hyder

Director, (SESS-IBA)
ahyder@iba.edu.pk

Dr. Moritz Meyer

Senior Fellow, Coordinator and Senior Economist, World Bank
mmeyer3@worldbank.org

Shagufta Shabbar

Coordinator, PhD Scholar
(SESS-IBA)
sshabbar@iba.edu.pk

Dr. Abid Aman Burki

Fellow, (LUMS)
burki@lums.edu.pk

Dr. Lubna Naz

Fellow, SESS-IBA
lnaz@iba.edu.pk

Dr. Muhammad Nasir

Fellow, SESS-IBA
nasir@iba.edu.pk

Dr. Sultan Mehmood

Fellow, (New Economic School in Moscow)
smehmood@nes.ru

Dr. Sumrin Kalia

Fellow, (University College London & IBA)
sumrin.kalia@gmail.com

Dr. Sundus Saleemi

Fellow, (Center for Development Research (ZEF)
ssaleemi@uni-bonn.de

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Dr. Asma Hyder
Director, (SESS-IBA)

Asma Hyder is professor and dean School of Economics and Social Sciences at the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi. Her research interests revolve around development issues with a specific focus on various labor market matters such as wage differentials, schooling, gender, health, and social wellbeing. While her work primarily revolves around addressing social issues in Pakistan, Dr. Hyder is also investigating the household behavior and preferences related to child schooling during and after economic and climatic shocks in extremely vulnerable and poorest societies of the world. Her regional interest extends to Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Dr. Moritz Meyer
Senior Economist, World Bank

Moritz Meyer is a Senior Economist with the World Bank leading the Poverty and Equity work program in Pakistan. He has managed operations and analytical work on inclusion, welfare measurement, and distributional analysis in the European Union, the South Caucasus, Central Asia, West Africa, and South Asia. Moritz's research focuses on social mobility, migration, and welfare measurement.

Dr. Muhammad Nasir
Fellow, (SESS-IBA)

Muhammad Nasir is associate Professor and Chairperson Economics Department at Institute of Business Administration. His research interests involve Development Economics, Health Economics Environmental Economics and Macroeconomics.

Shagufta Shabbar
Coordinator, PhD Scholar SESS, IBA

Shagufta Shabbar is a PhD scholar at SESS, IBA. She has co-authored the book, 'Development Pathways: Bangladesh, India and Pakistan at 75' and is the editor and co-author of the book 'Legends in economics.' Previously she has worked as a Senior Researcher at OICCI and as Research Associate at CBER (IBA). Her field of interest are cash transfers, inequality, gender and poverty.

Dr. Lubna Naz
Fellow, (SESS-IBA)

Lubna Naz is an associate Professor in the Department of Economics at IBA Karachi, Pakistan. She has expertise in Impact Evaluation, Survey Research, Spatial Analysis, and Gender-Based Analysis (GBA). Currently, she is conducting/coordinating with international researchers on projects relating to public health, environment, and education. Her research areas are deeply rooted in Gender Economics, Education, Public Health, Environmental and Resource Economics.

Dr. Abid Aman Burki
Fellow, (LUMS)

Abid Burki is a Professor Emeritus in the CNM Department of Economics at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). His teaching interests include applied micro econometrics, the economics of poverty and income distribution, agriculture and food policy, development economics, and microeconomic theory. His current research areas include technical efficiency and productivity, willingness to pay and contingent valuation, the health sector, agriculture sector, industrial sector, and inequality and poverty. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 articles, chapters, and professional reports.

Dr. Sultan Mehmood
Fellow, (New Economic School in Moscow)

Sultan Mehmood is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the New Economic School, Moscow. A faculty research fellow at Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP), Pakistan Institute of Development Studies (PIDE) and Paris Research University (PSL). His research seeks to understand the conditions for establishment of rule of law in societies and its consequences for institutional design and development. He uses natural and field experiments to inform the design of institutions to build state capacity, improve policies and establish rule of law in societies.

Dr. Sumrin Kalia
Fellow, (University College London & IBA)

Sumrin Kalia is a post-doctoral fellow at the ERC funded Takhayyul Project working on South Asia. Her work at Takhayyul focuses on the socio-political processes which feed Islamist populist politics in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Through ethnographically excavating the discourses of Islamist social movements, she seeks to understand the ways through which Islamism provides imaginative and affective content to populist mobilizations. A cross-national comparison will explore not only how these discourses travel across countries but also how they are shaped to local contexts.

Dr. Sundus Saleemi
Fellow, (Center for Development Research (ZEF)

Sundus Saleemi is a senior Researcher at the Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF), University of Bonn. Her research interests can broadly be subsumed under "Women's Empowerment". She has explored women's changing roles in household decisions and their impact on the intrahousehold allocation of resources. Other themes of her interest are women and children's time use, children's education, health and nutrition and gender equality. The area of focus of her work is low-and middle-income countries in Asia and Africa.