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
Faculty, SDSB 
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
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:
Supply Chain Management; Technology and Innovation in Supply Chain Relationships; Social and Environmental Compliance in Supply Chain Relationships; Operations Management
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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