SDSB PhD Faculty

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SDSB has the largest pool of exceptionally qualified, research-active faculty in Pakistan. SDSB faculty research is published in some of the highly regarded and top-ranked international academic journals. The PhD students receive academic training from the most research-active faculty providing exposure to the latest academic knowledge and best quality research. The programme allows extensive and ongoing interaction with the faculty who mentor students for an enriching academic experience at the SDSB and a rewarding career after graduation. Below are some of the faculty members currently teaching in the PhD programme:

Available Faculty Advisors

 

SDSB

Abdur Rehman Malik
Associate Professor
PhD, LUMS University

Interests: Creativity; Motivation; Performance Management Systems; Team Building and Leadership

 

SDSB

Arif Nazir Butt
Professor
PhD, McGill University

Interests: Negotiations & Conflict Management; Team Building & Leadership; Cross-Cultural Management; Performance Management

 

LUMS

Attique Ur Rehman
Assistant Professor

Interests: Supply chain management, strategic decision making, and creativity in supply chain and supply chain risk management

 

Ayesha Masood
Assistant Professor
PhD Anthropology, Arizona State University

Interests: Cultural influences on network formation, front-line bureaucracy, and evidence-based health policy formulation

 

LUMS

 

Bushra Naqvi
Associate Professor
PhD, Université Paris

Interests: Financial Markets; Risk Management; Corporate Finance

 

SDSB

Faiza Ali
Associate Professor
PhD, Macquarie University

Interests: Diversity Management; Gender Equality at Workplace; International HRM; Leadership

 

Jawad

Fazal Jawad Seyyed 
Professor
PhD, University of Arkansas

Interests: Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management; Asset Pricing and Capital Markets; Financial Markets Structure and Efficiency; Information Content of Bond Rating; Behavioural Finance

 

Ferhana

 

Ferhana Ahmad 
Associate Professor

 

SDSB

Ghazal Mir Zulfiqar
Associate Professor
PhD Public Policy, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Interests: The global political economy of labor, class, and global finance.

 

SDSB

Ghufran Ahmad
Assistant Professor
PhD, Graduate School of Management, Université Paul Cézanne, France

Interests: Leadership; Culture; Group Dynamics; Social Dilemmas faced by Group Members; How Social Preferences Influence Behaviour; Performance of Groups

 

SDSB

Ghulam Ali Arain
Associate Professor
PhD Organizational Behaviour, Aix-Marseille University, France

Interests: Knowledge management, leadership, business ethics, trust, voice, and employee performance. His 30+ research papers have been published in top-ranked journals, including Group & Org Mgt. Journal of Business Ethics, Int Journal of HRM, Applied Psychology, Tourism Management, European Journal of Work & Org Psychology, and Journal of Knowledge Management amongst others.

 

Hassan

 

Hassan Rauf
Assistant Professor
PhD, North Carolina State University

Interests: Supply Chain Management; Retail Supply Chains; Strategic Sourcing; Vendor Management; Textile and Apparel Value Chains; Supply Chain Risk Management

 

SDSB

Jawad Syed
Professor
PhD, Macquarie University, Australia, Academic FCIPD

Interests: Leadership, Teams and Organisational Development; Human Resource Management; Change Management and Strategy; Business Communications; Gender and Diversity in Organisations; Ethics and Human Rights.

 

Junaid

Junaid Ashraf
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Essex

Interests: Corporate Governance; Management Accounting and Control Practices in Public Sector Organisations

 

Misbah

Misbah Tanveer Choudhry
Assistant Professor
PhD Economics and Business, University of Groningen, Netherlands

Interests: Gender studies, financial inclusion, and youth employment, with a particular emphasis on developing and emerging economies.

 

Adeel

Muhammad Adeel Zaffar
Associate Professor
PhD, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

Interests: Development of Decision Support Systems; Technology and Innovation Diffusion; Social Networks and their Impact on IS Strategy and IS Diffusion; Agent-based Computational Economics; IS Pedagogical Issues and Network Location Models in the Context of Disaster Response and Recovery Systems

 

SDSB

Muhammad Azfar Nisar
Associate Professor
PhD, Public Administration and Policy from Arizona State University, USA

Interests: Decolonizing public administration scholarship, improving public governance, and men and masculinity in Pakistan

 

Shakeel

Muhammad Shakeel Sadiq Jajja
Professor
Post-Doctorate, Stanford University
PhD, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Interests: Supply Chain Management; Technology and Innovation in Supply Chain Relationships; Social and Environmental Compliance in Supply Chain Relationships; Operations Management

 

Omair

Omair Haroon 
Assistant Professor
PhD, Accounting, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Interests: Capital Market Research in Accounting; Financial Reporting & Corporate Governance

 

Raja

Raja Usman Khalid
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Kassel, Germany

Interests: Sustainable Supply Chain Management; Supply Chain Relations Management; Procurement Management; Operations Management; Base of the Pyramid

 

Saad

Saad Azmat
Associate Professor
PhD, Monash University

Interests: Islamic Banking & Finance; Financial Instruments used in Islamic Capital Markets

 

SDSB

Salma Zaman
Assistant Professor
PhD International Business, Rutgers Business School

Interests: Intersections of international business, innovation networks, and digital transformation.

 

Salman

Salman Khan
Assistant Professor
PhD, Finance, I.A.E, Graduate School of Business, University Aix Marseille, France

Interests: Investment and Portfolio management, Corporate Finance, Risk Management, Entrepreneurial Finance, Finance for Managers and Financial Econometrics using participant-centered learning methods.

 

SDSB

Shehryar Shahid
Assistant Professor
PhD Corporate Governance, Financial Regulation and Islamic Finance, University of Warwick (UK)

Interests: Corporate Governance; Company Law; Commercial Laws; Financial Regulation and Islamic Finance

 

Aun

 

Syed Aun Raza Rizvi
Associate Professor
PhD, INCEIF

Interests: Financial Markets; Islamic Finance; Econophysics; Equity Markets in Emerging and Islamic Countries

 

Tanveer

Tanveer Shehzad Choudhry
Associate Professor
PhD, Finance RuG (NL) FRM

Interests: Financial Intermediation and Banking; Financial Inclusion; Risk Management; Corporate Finance and strategy; Economic Policies and Economic Management

 

Ummad

 

Ummad Mazhar
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Strasbourg, France

Interests: Monetary policy, governance issues like the informal economy and corruption, performance constraints of firms in developing countries, and women empowerment

 

Usama

Ussama Yaqub
Assistant Professor Management Information Systems
PhD, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey

Interests: Social Media Data Analyses; Including Sentiment and Behavior Analyses; Data Mining and studying the use of Twitter for Campaigning during General Elections

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