• HEC Approved PhD Supervisor

• PhD (Public Administration) University of Karachi.
• MBA (General Management) IBA, University of Sindh
• LLB (Minor Act and Labor Law), SM Law College.
• M.A. (International Relations) University of Karachi.
• Advanced Certificate in Islamic Jurisprudence
• International Islamic University Islamabad
• Graduate of Pakistan Military Academy

Research Interests:

• Human Resource Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Project Management
• Industrial Relations
• Legal Affairs and Corporate Law
• General Management

Publications:

• Extremism and Intolerance: Psycho-Social Analysis and Wayforward, 2019, Journal of Education & Social Sciences
• Terrorism in Pakistan: Genesis, Damages and Way Forward, 2019, Journal of Management Sciences
• Good Governance in Extremism and Militancy: Pakistan’s Case, 2018, Journal of Education and Social Sciences
• Pakistan’s Emerging Challenges: Increasing Militancy, Decreasing Governance, 2016, International Journal of Humanities and Social Science
• Extremism in Pakistan: Need to refreshing the garden through Reformation, 2016, International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
• Education, dialogue and deterrence Tools to counter terrorism, 2016, Journal of Sociology and Anthropology
• Conflict and Job Satisfaction, 2016, International Journal of Research in Social Sciences

Contact Information:
Email: faheem.akhter@dsu.edu.pk

HEC APPROVED PHD SUPERVISOR

• PhD (Finance) DUFE, Dalian, China
• MS (Finance ) IIUI, Islamabad, Pakistan
• BBA (Finance) FUUAST, Islamabad, Pakistan

Profile:

• Assistant Professor , Management Sciences, DHA Suffa University

Research Interests:

• Corporate Finance
• Financial Markets
• Corporate Governance

Research Projects (Ongoing and Completed):

• Credit rating and predictability of firms’ bankruptcy

Publications:

• Bhat, K.U, Shihua, C., Yan, C., Jebran, K. (2020). Debt capacity, debt choice and underinvestment problem. Evidence from China. Economic Research (SSCI, IF 1.38, JCR-Q2)
• Jebran, K., Iqbal, A., Bhat, K. U., Khan, M. A., & Hayat, M. (2019). Determinants of corporate cash holdings in tranquil and turbulent period: evidence from an emerging economy. Financial Innovation, 5(1), 3. ( SSCI, IF 2.96, JCR-Q1).
• Bhat, K.U., Chen, Y., Jebran, K. and Memon, Z.A. (2019), “Board diversity and corporate risk: evidence from China”, Corporate Governance, Vol. 20 No. 2, pp. 280-293. ABS 2  (ESCI, HEC X Category).
• Bhat, K., Yan, Chen, Jebran, K, Bhat, N. (2018). Corporate governance and firm value. A comparative analysis of state and non-state corporations in the context of Pakistan. Corporate Governance, The international Journal of Business in Society, 18(6), 1196-1206 ABS 2 (ESCI, HEC X Category)
• Bhat, K. U., & Shah, S. Z. A. (2015). Empirical Investigation of the Relationship between Exchange Rate Movements and Stock Market Volatility in the Context of Pakistan. Pakistan Business Review, 18(4), 1048-1062 (HEC Pakistan, X Category)
• Bhat, K. U., & Shah, S. Z. A. (2017). Determinants of Real Exchange Rate Movements in South Asian Countries: An Empirical evidence, Pakistan Business Review, 744-758 (HEC, X Category)
• Jebran, K. Khan, M. A., Bhat, K., and Iqbal, A. (2020). Financing behavior of firms and financial crisis: Evidence from an emerging economy, forthcoming issue. Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences  (ESCI, HEC X Category)
• Jebran K, Iqbal, A, Bhat, K., Ali, A. (2018) Effects of terms of trade on economic growth of China. Emerging Economy Studies, 4(2), 1-14. (SAGE).

Contact Information:
Kalimullah@dsu.edu.pk

Usman Ahmad (PhD) earned his doctorate degree from School of Economics, Finance and Banking, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) which is a AACSB accredited QS ranked university. He has diverse industrial experience at renowned Multinational Companies like British American Tobacco and Philips Malaysia.

In the field of research, he has worked on Malaysian Public Private Partnership (PPP) Projects. He conducted research on Risk, Risk Management and Critical Success Factors for Malaysian PPP projects. He has developed two constructs by using Mixed Method Research and conducted Risk Profiling for PPP projects. Prime Minister PPP Department Malaysia and Ministry of Works Malaysia awarded him Certificates of Appreciations for his research work.

PUBLICATION – ISI AND SCOPUS INDEX

• Ahmad, U., Ibrahim, Y. B., & Bakar, A. B. A. (2018). Malaysian Public Private Partnership. Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies Journal, 22, 1-6
• Ahmad, U., Ibrahim, Y. B., & Bakar, A. B. A. (2018). Malaysian Public Private Partnership: Project Success Definition. International Journal of Engineering and Technology, 7(3.30), 33-37
• Ahmad, U., Ibrahim, Y., & Minai, M. S. (2018). Malaysian Public Private Partnerships: Risk Management in Build, Lease, Maintain and Transfer Projects. Cogent Business & Management, 5
• Ahmad, U., Ibrahim, Y., & & Bakar, A. B. A. (2018). Risk Management in the Malaysian Public Private Partnership Projects. Jurnal Pengurusan, 54

PUBLICATION – PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS

• Ahmad, U., Ibrahim, Y., & Minai, M. S. (2017). Public private partnership in Malaysia: The differences in perceptions on the criticality of risk factors and allocation of risks between the private and public sectors. International Review of Management and Marketing, 7(2), 138-150

• MSc (Marketing), Brunel University, UK
• MBA (Marketing), Greenwich University, Karachi

Formerly:
• Assistant PR Manager, Media Pulse Private Limited

Research Interests:
• Brands, Advertising, Consumer Behavior

Contact Information:
Email: a.huraira@dsu.edu.pk
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• MAS (Applied Economics), Applied Economics Research Center, University of Karachi, Karachi
• MA (Economics), University of Punjab, Lahore
• B.Sc (Economics, Statistics and Mathematics), University of Punjab, Lahore

Research Interests:
• Macroeconomics Analysis
• Development Sector
• Financial Markets

Publications:
• Masood, H., Waqas, M., & Anwer, M. (2017). Validity of f-h puzzle in Pakistan economy: A time series study. Journal of Business Studies , 89-96.
• Waqas, M., Uddin, I., Ashfaq, B., & Shakir, R. (Vol. 12, No. 1, (Spring 2016) ). Redefinig economic systems as an islamic economic system. Journal of Business Studies, 65-78.

Contact Information:
Email: muhammad.waqas@dsu.edu.pk
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Mr. Razi Sultan Siddqui, is a dynamic Corporate Trainer, Motivational Speaker, Entrepreneur, Consultant, Analyst and Senior Academician. He has a marvelous combination of educational qualification of psychology and business studies having the degrees of bachelor and master’s in Psychology and MBA and MS in Management Sciences. He is also pursuing his PhD studies at present. Backed by the vast experience of 21 years in academic and non-academic organizations at various positions. He is currently associated as an Assistant Professor with DHA Suffa University since its inception and has Excellence in Teaching Award 2012 in his credit.

He is also publishing in various journals of National and International repute including Psychological Science, Evolution and Human Behavior, Scientific Reports and International Journal of Psychology published by world renowned publishing organizations including SAGE, ELSVIER, Nature Research and Wiley-Blackwell publishers. Razi collaboratively conducts and participate in various research activities that provide insight to resolve individual, gender, family, organizational and community based issues.  In 2016, he founded a consultancy firm that offer various forms of research-based support for educators and caregivers.

His primary interest relates to Organizational Psychology, Consumer Behavior, Educational Psychology, Health Psychology, Family Psychology, and Psychological Testing. His areas of interest in research are gender differences, perceived social support, psychological distress, depression, anxiety, stress, marital relations, self-esteem, suicide risk, emotional intelligence, job satisfaction, employees’ turnover. He has also experience of training to the managers of the pharmaceutical industry, teachers and students of various private and public institutions and organizations. Some of the training topics that he addresses in his workshops which include gender, individual differences, leadership, team building, conflict management, stress management and self-esteem.

He is active as a psychotherapist and provides counseling sessions. His strong passion in human research and behavioral study made him realize the reality to create a niche consistently.

His work can be retrieved through ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6691-0299

• MS (Management Sciences), SZABIST, Karachi
• MBA (Human Resources and Marketing), University of Sindh, Pakistan
• MSc (Industrial Psychology), University of Sindh, Pakistan
• BSc (Hons) (Psychology), University of Sindh, Pakistan

Formerly:
• SZABIST, Karachi
• NUML, Karachi
• IoBM, Karachi
• BIZTEK. Karachi
• Corporate Trainer, Pharmaceutical Industry

Research Interests:

• Gender
• Performance Management
• Job Satisfaction
• Emotional Intelligence
• Turnover Rate of Employees

Publications:

1-  Walter, K. V., Conroy-Beam, D., Buss, D. M., Asao, K., Sorokowska, A., Sorokowski, P., Siddiqui, R. S., … Zupančič, M. (2020). Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Across 45 Countries: A Large-Scale Replication. Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620904154 (Impact Factor: 4.902)

2-  Siddiqui, R. S., Jahangir, A. A., & Hassan, A. (2019). Gender Differences on Perceived Social Support and Psychological Distress among University Students. Global Management Journal for Academic & Corporate Studies, 9(2), 210–223

3-  Conroy-beam, D., Roney, J. R., Lukaszewski, A. W., Buss, D. M., Asao, K., Sorokowska, A., Siddiqui, R. S.,… Zupančič, M. (2019). Assortative mating and the evolution of desirability covariation. Evolution and Human Behavior,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.06.003 (Impact Factor: 2.959)

4-  Conroy-Beam, D., Buss, D. M., Asao, K., Sorokowska, A., Sorokowski, P., Aavik, T., Siddiqui, R. S., … Zupančič, M. (2019). Contrasting Computational Models of Mate Preference Integration Across 45 Countries. Scientific Reports, 9(1).  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-52748-8 (Impact Factor: 3.998)

5-  Krys, K., Capaldi, C. A., van Tilburg, W., Lipp, O. V., Bond, M. H., Vauclair, M., Siddiqui, R. S., …, Ahmed, R. A., (2017) Catching up with wonderful women: The women-are-wonderful effect is smaller in more gender egalitarian societies. International Journal of Psychology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12420 (Impact Factor: 1.867) 

6-  Rizwan, M., Malik, S., Malik, J. N., & Siddiqui, S. R. (2017) Urdu Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale: An Analysis of Reliability and Validity in Pakistan. Social Int J. 1(2): 00010. DOI: 10.15406/sij.2017.01.00010.

7-  Rizwan, M., Siddiqui, R. S., & Ali. (2017). Suicide Risk Potential: A Comparison of Psychiatric Patients and Normal Controls in Pakistan. Psychol Behav Sci Int J. 6(2): 555685. DOI: 10.19080/PBSIJ.2017.06.555685.

8-  Siddiqui, R. S., Hassan, A., & Syed, N. A., (2013) Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Employees Turnover Rate in FMCG Organizations Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences ISSN: 1997-8553 Vol. 7, No. 2.

9- Siddiqui, R. S., & Hassan, A., (2012) Relationship between Job Satisfaction and Employee Turnover Intention Global Management Journal for Academic & Corporate Studies ISSN: 2219-6145 Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2012.

10- Siddiqui, R. S., Shah, I,. (2012) A Gender based Comparison Between Married and Unmarried Young Adults International Research Journal of Arts & Humanities ISSN: 1016-9342 Vol. 40, No. 40.

Contact Information:
Email: razi@dsu.edu.pk
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• MPhil (Marketing), Iqra University

• MBA (Marketing), IBA

Contact Information:

Email: saqib.ghias@dsu.edu.pk

• MBA (Marketing), SZABIST, Karachi
• BBA (Marketing), SZABIST, Karachi

Research Interests:
• Marketing
• Human Resource Management

Contact Information:
Email: b.mahmood@dsu.edu.pk
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• MBA(MIS) from IBM, Pakistan in 1999
• MS(Computer Science) from SZABIST, Pakistan in 2005

Contact Information:
Email: eram.abbasi@dsu.edu.pk

• MS (Business Administration), Pakistan
• MBA (Finance), Pakistan
• BSc, Pakistan

Formerly:
Lecturer, DACB, DHA, Karachi

Research Interests:
• E-commerce,Marketing

Publications:
• Shabib ul Hasan and ErumFatima (2012),Social Networking Websites: Conduit for Women Entrepreneurs in Pakistan, International Journal of Computing and Corporate Research, 2 (5).
• Atif Hasan, Erum Fatima and Rizwana Bashir (2013), Social Media Marketing Opportunities and Threats for Young Entrepreneurs in Pakistan,international Journal of Management Sciences and Business Research,ISSN:2226-8235, Vol 2, No. 1, January 2013 Pg. 23-28.

Significant Achievements:
• Recipient of Dr.Adbul Qadeer Khan Shield

Contact Information:
Email: efatima@dsu.edu.pk
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• MBA (Marketing and Finance), University of Rochester – Simon Business School, USA
• MBA (Marketing and Finance), IBA, Karachi
• BBA (Marketing and Finance), IBA, Karachi

Contact Information:
Email: farhat.umar@dsu.edu.pk
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• MBA (Management Information System), IBA, Karachi
• MS (Computer Science), SZABIST, Karachi
• MA (Islamic Studies), University of Karachi

Formerly:
• Lecturer, IBA, Karachi
• Lecturer, IoBM, Karachi

Research Interests:
• Data Provenance
• E-Commerce
• Data WareHouse

Publications:
• Study of Data Provenance and Annotation Model for Information Reliability Suggested for Pathological Laboratory Environment in Pakistan

Significant Achievements:
• IBM Gold Medal for Programming Languages

Contact Information:
Email: n.shahzada@dsu.edu.pk
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• MS in Management Sciences from SZABIST, Pakistan in 2016

• MBA(Finance) from IBA, Pakistan in 2005

Contact Information:
Email: subeika.rizvi@dsu.edu.pk

• MS(Business Administration) from Hamdard University, Karachi in 2016

Formerly:
Lecturer, DACB, DHA, Karachi

Publications:
• Analysis of Risk Management practices in Business Enterprises of Pakistan (GMJACS), December 2013
• Stress Management in Private Banks of Pakistan, Journal of Emerging Trends in Economics and Management Sciences (JETEMS), June 2013
• Launching Centerpoint Training Institute, www.ecch.com, 2013

Contact Information:
Email: tahira@dsu.edu.pk
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• MS (MS) Human Resource Management, SZABIST, Karachi
• BS (BA) Human Resource Management, COMSATS, Islamabad

Contact Information:
Email: tehseen.azhar@dsu.edu.pk
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