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

Nadeem Javed

PhD (Economics), University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France Nadeem Javed is currently working for the Government of Pakistan as the Chief Economist. Mr. Javed earlier served as chief economist from 2014 to 2018 and worked for the State Bank of Pakistan too. Mr. Javed has also worked as the Associate Dean of Karachi School of

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Saeed ul Riaz 

MBA (Finance) Al-Khair University, Peshawar | MA (Economics) University of Peshawar Saeed ul Riaz has worked with local and international development sector institutions. His area of specialization includes admin support, grant management, budgeting and accounts preparation. He has served in the USAID Pakistan mission in the financial management office. He also worked as Program Manager

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Nazam Maqbool

M.Phil. (Economics), Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad | M.A. (Economics), University of the Punjab, Lahore | Post Graduate Diploma (Information Technology), AIOU, Islamabad Nazam Maqbool is the Social Scientist/Project Manager at RASTA CGP – an initiative of the Planning Commission of Pakistan and PIDE. He worked as the Senior Research Fellow at the Lahore University of Management

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Adeel Malik

DPhil (Economics), University of Oxford, UK Adeel Malik is a development macroeconomist with a strong multi-disciplinary orientation. His research engages with questions of long-run development, political economy and economic history, with a special focus on Muslim societies. His work combines quantitative and qualitative research methods. Apart from engaging with cross-country empirics on development, he is

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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 Murtaza Haider is a professor of Data Science and Real Estate Management at Ryerson University. He also serves as the research director of the Urban Analytics Institute, external link. Professor Haider holds an adjunct professorship of Engineering at McGill University,

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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 Director (Policy), and Project Director of the RASTA Program at PIDE. He is a public policy expert with over 18 years of experience in

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