RASTA – PIDE & Planning Commission Competitive Research Grants

Competitive Grants Programme for Policy-oriented Research

Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

Ministry of Planning, Development & Special Initiatives

CGP

Zahid Asghar

PhD (Economics), Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad | MSc (Statistics) Zahid Asghar is the Director of School of Economics at the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. He served as senior faculty at the National Institute of Banking and Finance, State Bank of Pakistan, Islamabad, and remained Chairman, Department of Statistics at QAU. His areas of research […]

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Izzah Aftab

PhD (Economics), The New School, New York City, USA | MA (Economics), The New School New York City, USA | MS (Public Policy), Beaconhouse National University Izza Aftab is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Beaconhouse National University (BNU) Lahore. She was the founding Chairperson of the Economics Department at ITU Lahore. She was also

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Murtaza Haider

PhD (Civil Engineering), University of Toronto, Canada | MASc (Civil Engineering) University of Toronto, Canada Dr. Murtaza Haider is the Executive Director of the Cities Institute, Radhe Krishna Gupta Executive Chair in Cities and Communities, and Professor at the Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta, Canada. He is the author of Real Estate Markets: An

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Faheem Jehangir Khan

PhD (Public Policy), University of Bristol, UK | MSc (Development Policy), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany | BSc Hons (Ag. Economics), University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan Dr. Faheem Jehangir Khan is Dean (Policy), and Project Director of the RASTA Program at PIDE. He is a public policy expert with over 20 years of experience in policy research, training,

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Abdul Salam Lodhi

PhD (Economics) Bonn Graduate School of Development Economics, University of Bonn, Germany Abdul Salam Lodhi is a professor of Economics at BUITEMS. Presently he is working as Director University College of Zhob, BUITEMS, earlier to that he also served as Dean Faculty of Management Sciences and Chairman Department of Economics, from September 2014 to May

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Mohsin Mushtaq Chandna

Masters of Public Policy, University of Chicago, USA | Masters in Business Administration, Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Karachi Mohsin Mushtaq Chandna is an officer of Pakistan Administrator Service with blend of experience in Government service as well as Development Sector. He has worked for the Government of Pakistan for over 30 years while he

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Ather Maqsood Ahmed

Ph.D. (Economics) The Johns Hopkins University, USA. | MA (Economics) University of Waterloo, Canada | M.Sc. (Economics) Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad Ather Maqsood Ahmed is one of Pakistan’s eminent economists. He is the founder of renowned Department of Economics at NUST. Prior to joining NUST, Professor Ahmed testified before the Standing Committees of Senate of Pakistan

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Sultan Mehmood

PhD (Economics), University of Paris | Masters (Public Policy and Development), University of Paris | MSc (Economics & Econometrics), Tilburg University, The Netherlands Sultan Mehmood is an Associate Professor of Economics at the New Economic School, Moscow. He is also a faculty research fellow at Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP), Pakistan Institute of Development

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David Orden

PhD (Economics), University of Minnesota, USA | MS (Agricultural Economic), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA | BS (Agricultural Economics), Cornell University, USA David Orden is known for his research and policy programs on the economics and political economy of agricultural domestic support, international trade negotiations, and technical barriers to trade. He was Deputy

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Khalid Chauhan

PhD (Gender and Development Studies) Australian National University, Australia | Post Doctorate (Roads and Politics of Thought) SOAS, University of London | MSc (Crime, Deviance and Control) London School of Economics and Political Science | MA (English Literature) University of the Punjab Khalid Chauhan has an extensive and distinguished police and public service experience of

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