PhD Management Programme Graduates

A list of our PhD Alumni

2023-24

SDSB

Abdullah Khan

Current Position: Teaching Fellow (Information Technology University (ITU, Lahore) 
Specialization: Finance 
Thesis: “Towards ‘Real’ Islamic Finance: Essays on Islamic Venture Capital” 
Advisor: Dr. Bushra Naqvi

 
SDSB

Afaf Khalid

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Forman Christian College (A Chartered University) 
Specialization: Organisational Behaviour & Strategy 
Thesis: “Mental Health and Schizophrenia at Work” 
Advisor: Dr. Jawad Syed

 
SDSB

Nighat Seema

Specialization: Finance 
Thesis: “The Role of Gender in Finance” 
Advisor: Dr. Fazal Jawad Seyyed

 
SDSB

Shoaib Amjad Hussain

Current Position: Assistant Professor - Forman Christian College (A Chartered University)    
Specialization: Organisational Behaviour & Strategy (OB) 
Thesis: “Leadership – Managing People Amidst Paradoxes” 
Advisor: Dr. Muhammad Abdur Rahman Malik

 

2022-23

LUMS

Syed Tariq

Current Position: Lecturer in Logistics (Procurement & Supply Chain) – Lincoln, England, UK 
Specialization: Operations Management (OM) 
Thesis: "Humanitarian Operations: Challenges in Pakistan, Design of the Flood Relief Chain and Financial Health of Humanitarian Nonprofits" 
Advisor: Dr. Muhammad Shakeel Sadiq Jajja

 
LUMS

Al Waqas Bin Abi Zyad

Current Position: Senior Project Manager – Educative 
Specialization: Organisational Behaviour & Strategy 
Thesis: "Postsecular and Islamic Perspectives on Management: Religion, Altruism, and Mindfulness" 
Advisor: Dr. Muhammad Azfar Nisar

 
LUMS

Aneeka Fahima Sufi

Email: asufi.academic@gmail.com 
Current Position: Assistant Professor, FAST School of Management 
Specialization: Organisational Behaviour & Strategy 
Thesis: "Impact of peer unethical behaviors on silence and proactivity: The role of emotions and identification" 
Advisor: Dr. Arif Nazir Butt

 

2021-22

LUMS

Hajra Asad

Email: hajraasad@hotmail.com 
Current Position: Teaching Professional - Lahore School of Economics - Lahore 
Specialization: Organisational Behaviour & Strategy 
Thesis: "A positive twist on the “Toxic Triangle”: The Abusive Supervisor, Competitive Climate, and Subordinate Core-Self Evaluation" 
Advisor: Dr. Arif Nazir Butt

 
LUMS

Syeda Ayesha Wadood

Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Sialkot 
Specialization: Operations Management (OM) 
Thesis: "The resource based enablers and performance related consequences of social sustainability in supply chains of developing countries" 
Advisor: Dr. Muhammad Shakeel Sadiq Jajja

 
LUMS

Aneeka Kanwal

Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Sialkot 
Specialization: Finance 
Thesis: The Effect of Fairness Preferences on Individual Decision-Making in Inter-temporal, Risk Sharing, Credit and Asset Market Settings 
Title of Paper: "The Prohibition of Speculation in Islamic Finance: Fairness and Framing" 
Advisor: Dr. Saad Azmat

 
LUMS

Ramsha Naeem

Email: lums.ramsha@lums.edu.pk 
Current Position: Assistant Professor – Head of MBA Programme – University of Central Punjab 
Specialization: Organisational Behaviour & Strategy 
Thesis: "The Process of Faultline Activation and Deactivation: The Effects of Power Struggles, Entitlement Beliefs, Justice Climate and Distribution Rules on Group Performance" 
Advisor: Dr. Arif Nazir Butt 
Title of Paper: The Effects of Gender Faultlines and Distribution of Rewards on Intragroup Power Struggles and Group Performance

 
SDSB

Rizwan Khalid

Email: rizwankhalid1991@gmail.com 
Current Position: Assistant Professor – Qarshi University 
Specialization: Finance 
Thesis: Determinants of Stock Market Growth and Crashes 
Advisor: Dr. Tanveer Shehzad 
Title of Paper: "Impact of capital account liberalization on stock market crashes"

 
SDSB

Manal Munir Chaudhary

Email: manal_munir786@yahoo.com 
Current Position: Operations Management (OM) 
Specialization: Finance 
Thesis: Empirical Examination of Antecedents and Consequences of Managing Risks and Developing Resilience in Supply Chains 
Advisor: Dr. Shakeel Sadiq Jajja 
Title of Paper: Supply Chain Risk Management and Operational Performance: The Enabling Role of Supply Chain Integration

 
LUMS

Mamoona Arshad

Email: mamoona.arshad19@gmail.com 
Current Position: Lecturer in HRM/OB – De Montfort University (UK) 
Specialization: Organisational Behaviour & Strategy 
Thesis: Prevalence of Workplace Deviance: A Perspective of Third-Party Observation and Experiencing Interpersonal Deviance 
Advisor: Dr. Muhammad Abdur Rahman Malik 
 

 
LUMS

Attique Ur Rehman

Email: attique.rehman@lums.edu.pk 
Current Position: Assistant Professor – LUMS 
Specialization: Operations Management (OM) 
Thesis: Supply chain risk and risk management: Theory, antecedents, and consequences 
Advisor: Dr. Muhammad Shakeel Sadiq Jajja

 

2020-21

LUMS

Mariam Mohsin

Email: m.mohsin@kent.ac.uk 
Current Position: Lecturer – University of Kent 
Specialization: Organisational Behaviour & Strategy 
Thesis:Opting In and Out: A Relational and Structural Theory of Action Perspective on Women’s Employment and Careers in Pakistan 
Advisor:Dr. Jawad Syed

 
SDSB

Syed Aamir Ali Shah

Email: aamir.syed@iba-suk.edu.pk 
Current Position: Assistant Professor - Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Sukkur 
Thesis: "Extended Role of Supply Chain Partners (Suppliers and Customers) in Service Supply Chains" 
Advisor: Dr. Muhammad Shakeel Sadiq Jajja 
Specialisation: Operations Management (OM)

 
LUMS

Fatima Gillani

Email: fatima.gillani@ntu.ac.uk 
Current Position: Senior Research Fellow in Business Transformation – Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University 
Thesis: "Digitalization of Organizations: Strategizing the Transformation Journey" 
Advisor: Dr. Muhammad Shakeel Sadiq Jajja 
Specialisation: Operations Management (OM)

 
LUMS

Haris Khan

Current Position: Assistant Professor – Information Technology University (ITU, Lahore) 
Thesis:Interplay of Finance and the Distribution of Income and Wealth 
Advisor: Dr. Tanveer Shehzad

 

2019-20

SDSB

Fariha Zahid

Email: farihaz06@yahoo.com        
Current Position: Lecturer Leadership and Management (PhD, ACCA, MPA) 
Bournemouth University Business School (UK)       
Thesis: “Political Skill and Self-Serving Counterproductive Work Behaviors: A Power Perspective”        
Advisor: Dr. Arif Nazir Butt        
Specialisation: Organisational Behaviour & Strategy

 

2018-19

LUMS

Muhammad Azeem Ali Shah

Current Position: Senior Regional Researcher, Governance of Water Institutions, IWMI\        
Thesis: “Exogenous Shocks and the Process of Organisational Sensemaking: The Case of Punjab Irrigation Department, Pakistan”        
Advisor: Dr. Ghazal Mir Zulfiqar 
Specialisation: Organisational Behaviour & Strategy

 

LUMS

Yasir Riaz

Email: Yasir.Riaz@northampton.ac.uk 
Current Position: Lecturer in Finance, Ulster University (UK) 
Thesis: “The role of credit rating agencies in the European financial markets” 
Advisor: Dr. Tanveer Shehzad 
Specialisation:Finance

 

2015-16

LUMS

Mohammad Kamran Mumtaz

Email: mmumtaz@iba.edu.pk        
Current Position: Assistant Professor - Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi        
Thesis: "Analysis and Design of the Upstream Dairy Supply Chain – An Application in Emerging Markets"        
Advisor: Dr. Kamran Ali Chatha        
Specialisation:Operations Management (OM)

  

LUMS

Muhammad Osama Nasim Mirza

Email: osama.nasim@gmail.com        
Current Position: Assistant Professor - The University of Lahore (UOL)        
Thesis: "Corporate Social Responsibility – The Perspective of Orthodox Islam"        
Advisor: Dr. Adnan Zahid/Dr. Farzad Rafi Khan        
Specialisation:Organisational Behaviour & Strategy

 

2014-15

LUMS

Faiza Muhammad (L)

Thesis: "Decoupling & Re-coupling Institutional logics through Institutional work: The Case Study the Pakistani Judiciary’s Struggle for Independence"        
Advisor: Dr. Junaid Ashraf        
Specialisation:Management and Organisational Studies

 
LUMS

Ashar Saleem

Email: asaleem@iba.edu.pk        
Current Position: Assistant Professor and Programme Director MS Management - Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi        
Thesis: "State Under Trial, An Institutional Analysis of a Policy Decision in the Pakistani Electricity Sector"        
Advisor: Dr. Adnan Zahid/Farzad Rafi Khan        
Specialisation: Management and Organisational Studies

 
LUMS

Muhammad Ayaz

Email: muhammadayaz@iba.edu.pk        
Current Position: Assistant Professor - Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi        
Thesis: "(re) Formation of Local Nodes in Global Production Networks"        
Advisor: Dr. Junaid Ashraf        
Specialisation: Management and Organisational Studies

 
LUMS

Shoaib Ul Haq

Email: Shoaib_ulhaq@yahoo.com        
Current Position:  Senior Lecturer at the University of Greenwich, UK        
Thesis: "The Role of Conflicting Logics in Shaping Individual Identities: A Case of Microfinance"        
Advisor: Dr. Arif Nazir Butt        
Specialisation:Organisational Behaviour & Strategy

 

2012-13

SDSB

Muhammad Shakeel Sadiq Jajja

Current Position: Associate Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management - Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)   
Associate Dean (Graduate Programme) - Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)  
Specialization: Operations Management   
Thesis: “Supply Chain Management and Organizational Performance: Strategy and Innovation Aspects”  
Advisor: Dr. Syed Zahoor Hassan  

 
SDSB

Abdur Rahman Malik

Current Position: Faculty at LUMS       
Thesis: "Rewards and Creativity: The Next Step"       
Advisor: Dr. Arif Nazir Butt       
Specialisation: Organisational Behaviour & Strategy

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