Faculty Directory

OUR FACULTY
EXCELLENCE: FROM RESEARCH TO IMPACT PRACTICE

LUMS faculty are more than instructors; they are thought leaders in the business community who combine their relevant, real-world experiences with modern academic knowledge. Their command over their respective subjects and innovative research will inspire you. They are committed to your growth, and focus on making you a better thinker and leader through a meaningful educational experience. We source our faculty primarily from Suleman Dawood School of Business. Some of the teaching faculty include:

ADNAN ZAHID

Assistant Professor
PhD, CASS Business School, City University

Research Interests:

Brand Management; Status Consumption; Acculturation; Leadership; Consumer Behaviour; Marketing Research; Gender; Religion and Consumer Culture

ANJUM FAYYAZ
Assistant Professor
PhD, Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark
Research Interests:
Institutional Theory; Private Sector Development; Corporate Social Responsibility; Development Aid Intervention; Family Businesses; SME Clusters and Networks Development

ARIF NAZIR BUTT

Professor
PhD, McGill University

Research Interests:

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

ASAD A. ALAM

Associate Professor
MBA, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research Interests:

Entrepreneurship; Extensive Research Experience in Business Growth Strategies; Business Development and Private Equity Funding

AYESHA BHATTI

Assistant Professor
CA, ICAEW

Research Interests:

Managerial Accounting and Control Systems; Advanced Management Accounting; Principles of Management Accounting; Principles of Financial Accounting

BUSHRA NAQVI

Associate Professor
PhD, Université Paris 1

Research Interests:

Financial Markets; Risk Management; Corporate Finance

EHSAN-UL-HAQUE

Professor Emeritus
PhD, University of Texas at Arlington

Research Interests:

Marketing Management, Business Strategy and The Business of Entertainment

FAIZA ALI
Associate Professor
PhD, Macquarie University
Research Interests:
Diversity Management; Gender Equality at Workplace; International HRM; Leadership

FAZAL JAWAD SEYYED

Faculty, SDSB

Dean, Suleman Dawood School of Business
PhD, University of Arkansas

Research Interests:

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

HASSAN RAUF CHAUDHRY
Assistant Professor
PhD, North Carolina State University
Research Interests:
Supply Chain Management; Retail Supply Chains; Strategic Sourcing; Vendor Management; Textile and Apparel Value Chains; Supply Chain Risk Management

JAMSHED HASAN KHAN

Professor Emeritus
PhD, University of Texas at Arlington

Research Interests:

Productivity; Quality Management; Supply Chain Management; Six Sigma; Project Management; Strategy; Developing a Customer Centric Culture

JAWAD SYED
Professor
PhD, Macquarie University, Australia, Academic FCIPD
Research Interests:
Leadership, Teams and Organisational Development; Human Resource Management; Change Management and Strategy; Business Communications; Gender and Diversity in Organisations; Ethics and Human Rights

KHALID A. MIRZA
Teaching Faculty
Honorary PhD, Institute of Business Management
M.Com, University of the Punjab

Past Experience:
Chairman and Chief Executive: Competition Commission of Pakistan; Chairman and Chief Executive: Monopoly Control Authority, Government of Pakistan; Sector Manager, Financial & Private Sector Development, East Asia and Pacific: The World Bank, Washington DC, USA; Former Chairman: Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan

MOEEN NASEER BUTT
Assistant Professor
PhD, Marketing, Ivey Business School, Western University
Research Interests:
Assessing the impact of Growth; Governance and Geography of franchise systems on their performance; Franchising; Market Development & Marketing-Finance

MOMIN AYUB UPPAL

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
PhD, Texas A&M University

Research Interests:

Machine Learning for Wireless Communication; Applied Signal Processing; Environmental Sensing using Radio Signals; Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access and Prototyping using Software Defined Radios

MUHAMMAD ABDUR RAHMAN MALIK

Associate Professor
PhD, LUMS University

Research Interests:

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

MUHAMMAD ADEEL ZAFFAR

Associate Professor
PhD, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

Research 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

MUHAMMAD AHSAN RANA
Associate Professor of Practice
PhD, University of Melbourne in Development Studies
Research Interests:
Social policy; Agricultural Policy; Public Sector Governance

MUHAMMAD GHUFRAN AHMAD

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

Research Interests:

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

MUHAMMAD JUNAID ASHRAF

Associate Professor
PhD, University of Essex

Research Interests:

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

MUHAMMAD LUQMAN AWAN
Senior Lecturer (SDSB)
PhD Scholar, University of Stirling Scotland
Research Interests:
Sales Force Management; Marketing Channels; Strategic Sales Leadership; B2B Marketing

MUHAMMAD SHAKEEL SADIQ JAJJA

Associate Professor
Post-Doctorate, Stanford University
PhD, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Research Interests:

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

NABIA KHAWAR

Special Projects & Development Consultant

LLM Intellectual Property Law, London School of Economics and Political Science (UK)
Research Interests:
Corporate Law; Trademark and Branding; Tech Patents; Copyrights; Legal Conflicts and Enforcement

OMAIR HAROON
Assistant Professor
PhD, Accounting, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Research Interests:
Capital Market Research in Accounting; Financial Reporting & Corporate Governance

SAAD AZMAT

Associate Professor
PhD, Monash University

Research Interests:

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

SALMAN KHAN
Assistant Professor
PhD, Finance, I.A.E, Graduate School of Business, University Aix Marseille, France
Research Interests:
Investment and Portfolio management, Corporate Finance, Risk Management, Entrepreneurial Finance, Finance for Managers and Financial Econometrics using participant-centered learning methods.

SAMIR AHMED

Executive in Residence and Adjunct Faculty SDSB, LUMS
MSc, Sloan Fellowship Programme, London Business School
Research Interests:
Financial Markets and Institutions

SARAH PERVEZ
Teaching Faculty
MBA, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
MSc, Environmental Management Sciences, Kinnaird College, Pakistan.
Research Interests:
Consumer Marketing, Branding & Advertising and South Asian Business Success Stories

SHEHARYAR SIKANDER HAMID

Assistant Professor

PhD Corporate Governance, Financial Regulation and Islamic Finance, University of Warwick (UK)
Research Interests:
Corporate Governance; Company Law; Commercial Laws; Financial Regulation and Islamic Finance

SHEZEEN SALIM HEMANI
Assistant Professor
PhD, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, UK
Research Interests:

Entrepreneurship and Leadership

SULEMAN SHAHID
Associate Professor, Computer Science
PhD, Tilburg University
Research Interests:
Computer Human Interaction; User Experience Design and Strategy; Design-Driven Innovation; Digital Experience for Next Billion Users (ICT4D) and Assistive Digital Technologies for Children and Elderly

SYED AUN R. RIZVI
Associate Professor
PhD, INCEIF

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

SYED KUMAIL ABBAS RIZVI

Associate Professor, Finance
PhD, University of Paris Sorbonne

Research Interests:

Strategic Investments; Corporate Finance; Sustainable Finance; Valuations; Financial Statement Analysis; Portfolio Management; Energy Finance; and Technological Financial Products

SYED MUBASHIR ALI

Associate Professor
PhD, University of Manchester

Research Interests:

Corporate Finance; Privatisation Policy; Regulation of Utilities; Financial Institutions & Markets; Social Enterprise

SYED ZAHOOR HASSAN

Professor
PhD, Stanford University

Research Interests:

Information Systems Development Methodologies; Global Software Development; Information Technology Utilisation Effectiveness; Management of Technology

TANVEER SHEHZAD

Associate Professor
PhD, Finance RuG (NL) FRM

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

USMAN KHALID

Assistant Professor

PhD, University of Kassel, Germany

Research Interests:

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

USSAMA YAQUB

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

Research Interests:

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

ZEHRA WAHEED

Assistant Professor
PhD, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

Research Interests:

Project Management, Facilities Management, Public Sector Procurement, Public-Private-Partnerships, Urban Waste, Sustainable Water, Knowledge Management

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