Board of Governors

Ali Khan

Ali Khan is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Dean at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences at LUMS. His research interests vary from labour issues to popular culture in Pakistan focusing particularly on cinema and sports. Ali Khan’s book Representing Children: Power, Policy and the Discourse on Child Labour in the Football Manufacturing Industry of Pakistan was published in 2007 by Oxford University Press. He is also the General Editor for a series of seven books on Sociology and Anthropology in Pakistan. His last two projects have resulted in co-authored and edited books on cricket – Cricket Cauldron (I.B.Tauris, 2013) and Pakistani cinema, Cinema and Society (Oxford University Press, 2016). A second edited collection on cinema was published in 2020 and a new book manuscript on cricket and society is ready.

Ali Khan has an MPhil and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in England.

Anjum Nasim

Anjum Nasim started his professional academic career with the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad in 1974 and joined the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in 1986 where he served as Professor of Economics (1991-2010), Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (2006-2008) and Provost (2009). After retiring from LUMS in 2010, Anjum Nasim served in an advisory capacity in the formation and establishment of IDEAS and was appointed Senior Research Fellow at IDEAS in 2012.

His publications include papers in the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Development Economics and International Tax and Public Finance. His current research interests are public finance and macroeconomic policy Anjum Nasim holds a BA from Government College Lahore, B.Sc. Honours from London School of Economics and an MA and PhD from the University of Essex.

Faisal Bari

Faisal Bari is currently Dean School of Education at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and Senior Research Fellow at IDEAS Pakistan. He served as the Deputy Country Director for Pakistan with the Central Eurasia Project, and education economist for South Asia at the Open Society Foundation. He is also an Associate Professor of Economics at LUMS and served as head of department from 2006-2008.

Dr. Bari has over twelve years research experience in the field of industrial economics, development economics and education economics. He is a former executive director and current visiting research fellow at Mahbub-ul-Haq Human Development Centre. Dr. Bari has consulted for various multi-lateral and bi-lateral agencies including the World Bank, UNDP, DFID and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He was also a columnist for the English daily, ‘The Nation’ and he currently writes a bi-weekly column for ‘DAWN’.

Dr. Bari obtained his BA (Honors) from the University of Oxford and BSc from Government College, Lahore. He has an MA in Philosophy from the University of Punjab and a Doctorate in Economics from McGill University.

Farooq Naseer

Farooq Naseer is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at LUMS since September 2006. Farooq Naseer’s research interests lie in the field of development economics and political economy including micro econometric analysis of institutions and their role in the face of information problems. His dissertation work has looked at the community based organizations in the Philippines as well as the pricing structure in the sugarcane markets in Pakistan.

Farooq Naseer received his MA and PhD in Economics from Yale University.

Hadia Majid

Hadia Majid is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). She is the Director of the Saida Waheed Gender Initiative at LUMS and a Senior Research Fellow at Mahbub Ul Haq Research Center, LUMS and Associate Fellow at Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS). Her research agenda considers, the impact of monetary and public resource constraints on individuals in Pakistan. Her work includes cash transfer evaluations, public goods provisioning, human capital acquisition in the context of intra-household decision-making, and factors affecting women’s access to earned income.

A Fulbright Scholar, Hadia Majid holds a PhD in Development Economics from The Ohio State University, MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick, and a BSc in Economics from Lahore University of Management Sciences.

Ijaz Nabi

Ijaz Nabi is Country Director (Pakistan) and Senior Advisor (Jordan and Lebanon) at the International Growth Centre hosted jointly by the London School of Economics and Oxford University and is a non-resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development, Washington DC. He is a member of Pakistan Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, chairs the boards of Punjab Population Innovation Fund and Punjab Skills Development Fund and is on the board of Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund. He is Chairman, Consortium for Development Policy Research (CDPR) and teaches Economic Policy at Lahore University of Management Sciences. Earlier, he was Advisor (Economic Affairs) to Chief Minister Punjab, a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the State Bank of Pakistan and on the board of Benazir Income Support Program (BISP). He was at the World Bank in Washington DC (1986-2008) and worked on Mexico, Korea, Thailand (leading the World Bank team during the East Asian financial crisis), Malaysia, Korea, Laos and Myanmar, and in 2002-2008 was Manager, Economic Policy, for South Asia region.

He has published extensively on economic growth, investment and finance, industrialization, international trade and labor markets in developing countries. He has a BA from Government College Lahore, B.Sc. Honors from London School of Economics and a PhD from Warwick University, UK.

Naved Hamid

Naved Hamid is Director at the Center for Research in Economics and Business (CREB) and Professor of Economics at the Lahore School of Economics in Pakistan. He is also a member of the Macroeconomic Working Group for the Government of Pakistan as well as Chair of the Working Group on “Export Competitiveness and Growth Strategy” for the tenth Five Year People Plan, constituted by the Planning Commission for the Government of Pakistan since 2009. He was previously the Principal Economist at the South Asia Regional Department.

Naved Hamid received his Bachelor’s degree from the Government College Lahore before gaining another from Cambridge University. He received his PhD in Economics from Stanford University.

Reehana R. Raza

Reehana Raza is a development economist with over fifteen years of experience as a practitioner, researcher, research manager, and teacher in the areas of economics of education and development economics. Currently, she is employed as a senior human development economist in the Education Global Practice of The World Bank where she focuses on skills development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to this, Dr. Raza was the the founding member and first director of IDEAS. She has also been an assistant professor of economics at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan.

Dr. Raza has previously also worked on a four-year UK DFID funded research project on the economics of tertiary education in South Asia. Additionally, she has consulted for the Asian Development Bank (ADB), The World Bank, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), USAID, and other bi-lateral agencies. Dr. Raza is a former Commonwealth Scholarship winner and has obtained a Bachelors of Arts in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College as well as a Masters of Philosophy in Development Economics and a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Cambridge.