Curriculum vitae
CV
A short overview is below. The full CV with teaching evaluations, conferences and service is available as a PDF.
Appointments
- Assistant Professor of EconomicsSchool of Economics and Social Sciences, IBA Karachi2024 to present
- Director, Economic Growth and Forecasting LabIBA Karachi2025 to present
Education
- PhD Economics, Claremont Graduate UniversityFulbright Scholar. Dissertation Applications of Methods in Causal Inference, chaired by Gregory DeAngelo2024
- MA Economics, Claremont Graduate University
- MS Economics, Lahore University of Management Sciences2017
- BSc (Hons) Economics, minor in Mathematics, LUMS2014
Research and field work
- Research Consultant, Pakistan Poverty Alleviation FundField operations for a nationwide RCT funded by the World Bank, NSF and IGC2016 to 2019
- Research Consultant, Gender and Digital Inclusion StudyInformation Technology University, Lahore2017 to 2018
- Research Associate, Har Zindagi ProjectDFID funded immunization RCT in Punjab, ITU Lahore2015 to 2016
Methods and tools
- Difference in differences
- Synthetic DiD
- Event studies
- Staggered adoption
- RCTs
- Impact evaluation
- Machine learning
- R
- Stata
- Python
- SurveyCTO
- ODK
- ArcGIS
- Generative AI workflows
Service
Member of the IBA Financial Committee, the SESS Research Ethics Committee and the IBA Promotion Committee. Organizing committee, CBER Annual International Conference 2025. Referee for CBER 2024 and 2025 and SOCAE 2026. Discussant at CBER and the Lahore School of Economics Applied Development Conference.