Prof. Dr. Asad Zaman is an elite Pakistani economist and scholar globally recognized for his work in Islamic economics and his critique of mainstream Western economic models. A highly distinguished academic, he holds a Ph.D. in Economics and an M.S. in Statistics from Stanford University, alongside a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT. Throughout his career, he has taught at prestigious international universities—including Columbia, Penn, and Johns Hopkins—and has held top-tier national roles as the Vice-Chancellor of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) and a Monetary Policy Committee member for the State Bank of Pakistan.

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