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
Fellow

Shagufta Shabbar is a fellow 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. Muhammad Salman Khalid
Fellow, SESS-IBA

Salman Khalid is an Assistant Professor at the School of Economics and Social Sciences (SESS), Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Karachi. He holds a PhD in Economics from Claremont Graduate University, California, and is a Fulbright Scholar. His research primarily focuses on applied econometrics, with a specialization in causal inference methods for policy evaluation.

Dr. Salman’s work examines the intersection of economic policy and social outcomes, with particular interest in health economics, crime, gender empowerment, and climate vulnerability. His research is motivated by a commitment to uncovering the structural causes of inequality and informing evidence-based solutions. He has led empirical studies exploring the effects of digital governance in Punjab on health inequality. At IBA, Dr. Salman teaches courses in applied econometrics, Causal Inference and Machine Learning. 

Dr. Ghamz E Ali Siyal
Fellow, Florida Gulf Coast University

Ghamz is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Spatial and Environmental Economics at Water School, Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU). His research explores loss and damage from climate disasters, climate risk and vulnerability, water quality, coastal development, soundscapes, and marine plastic pollution, with work forthcoming and published in AJAE and JEEM.

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.

Rahima
Junior Fellow, SESS-IBA

Rahima is a final semester student at IBA Karachi, passionately pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Economics. Her interests encompass development, spatial economics, feminist economy, and political economy.

Driven by my dedication to research, she has taken on roles as a Research Fellow at the Youth Center for Research and a Research Assistant at IBA Karachi. Now, she is thrilled to embark on the next phase of her journey as a Junior Research Fellow at the IBA Social Inequality Lab.

Qaiser
Junior Fellow, SESS-IBA

Qaiser Abbas Qamar is a final-year student currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Economics at IBA Karachi. He holds the position of Vice-President at the School of Economics and Social Sciences within the IBA Student Government. In addition to his academic pursuits, he possesses practical experience working with datasets. Currently working at IBA as a research assistant and junior research fellow, he has devoted his time to studying the complex dynamics of poverty, political inequality, and educational disparities using empirical research techniques and economic theory. His dedication is to advancing a more thorough understanding of these intricate matters in order to contribute to policy discussions and public debate.

Sakina
Junior Fellow, SESS-IBA

Sakina is a third year BS Economics and Mathematics student at IBA. She's adept at leveraging datasets to extract impactful insights. Sakina led an SDG 17 Gap Analysis, uncovering the reasons for Pakistan's shortfalls compared to leading nations. She has also extensively worked on women socio economic dynamics to understand gender gap in various industries in Pakistan.

Her research interest lies in environmental sustainability which is driven by community initiatives and she aims to nourish her interest while being in the social inequality lab.

Dr. Zahra Mansoor
Fellow, University of Bristol

Zahra Mansoor is Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Public Policy and Economics, School for Policy Studies (SPS) at University of Bristol. Her research interests include Development Economics, Behavioral Economics, Systems Reform, Education, and Health.

Christina Wieser
Fellow, World Bank

Senior Economist, Poverty and Equity Global Practice, World Bank

Zahra Mansoor is Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Public Policy and Economics, School for Policy Studies (SPS) at University of Bristol. Her research interests include Development Economics, Behavioral Economics, Systems Reform, Education, and Health. Zahra Mansoor is Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Public Policy and Economics, School for Policy Studies (SPS) at University of Bristol.