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
Faculty Member and Assistant Professor at the Suleman Dawood School of Business (SDSB), Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
PhD (Strategy, SMEs & CSR), Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Programme Director, MS Business & Public Policy, SDSB LUMS
Ex-Associate Dean, External Relations, SDSB LUMS
Independent Director on the Boards of:
SAMAD Group of Industries; Jaffer Brothers; BinRasheed Chemicals; and J5 Group of Companies (Resorts, Pharmakon, and Cool Point).
Research Interests:
Corporate Strategy; Corporate Governance in Family Businesses; Artificial Intelligence at Strategic Level; Human Resource Management; Corporate and Business Communication; Institutional Theory; Philosophy of Administrative Sciences, 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
BADAR KHUSHNOOD
Executive-in-Residence (EIR), MS Technology Management & Entrepreneurship (MS-TME)
Cofounder, Bramerz & Fishry.com
Former Chairman, Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA)
Former Country Consultant, Google, Facebook & Twitter
Research Interests:
Digital Transformation; IT & ITeS Policy; E-commerce, Digital Marketing Strategy
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
Professsor 
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
GHULAM ALI ARAIN
Associate Professor
PhD, Aix-Marseille University, France
Research Interests:
Leadership, Employee Voice, Creativity, Teamwork, Work Ethics, Negotiation and Conflict Management, Decision Making, Power and Politics, and Knowledge Hiding and Knowledge Sharing in Organizations. 

HASSAN RAUF CHAUDHRY
Associate 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 

JUSTICE (R.) SYED MANSOOR ALI SHAH
Professor of Practice
M.A., LLB, University of Cambridge
Distinguished Chair in Constitutionalism & Justice 
Oscar M. Ruebhausen Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School
Bok Visiting International Professor at Penn Carey Law, UPenn

Past Experience:
Former Senior Puisne Judge, Supreme Court of Pakistan; Former Chief Justice, Lahore High Court 
 

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
Associate 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 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
Professor
Post-Doctorate, Stanford University
PhD, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Research Interests:
Strategic management, technology and innovation, sustainability, and the evolution of business models and supply chains in emerging economies.
NABIA KHAWAR
Adjunct Faculty & Community and Partnership Development Specialist
LLM Intellectual Property Law, London School of Economics and Political Science (UK)
Research Interests:
Contract Law; Trademark and Branding; Copyrights; Legal Reasoning and Dispute Resolution

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, the Netherlands
EngD, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
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 the 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 Emeritus
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
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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