Professor Dr. Shahida Wizarat did her Masters from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA on a Graduate Fellowship by the Rotary Foundation of the Rotary International. She did her PhD in Economics from the University of East Anglia on a British Council scholarship. Dr. Wizarat’s areas of interest are industrial productivity; profitability; concentration; economic policies; international financial institutions; debt management; privatization and liberalization; food security; political economy; natural resources, conflict and growth.

She has authored four books: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Productivity in Pakistan (OUP); Fighting Dependence: Proclaiming Sovereignty for an Enslaved Pakistan (LAP); Fighting Imperialism: Liberating Pakistan (CRS) and Alternative to the IMF and Other Out of the Box Solutions (Partridge, Singapore). She has authored more than 49 research papers published in international and national journals and newspapers.

Dr. Wizarat has been visiting faculty at the Naval Staff College formerly at Karachi, Air War College Karachi, Command and Staff College and Southern Command Quetta and National Defense University, Islamabad. She has served as editor of the Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics and Professor, Director of the Applied Economics Research Centre (AERC), Chief Editor Pakistan Business Review and Director Research IOBM. She has also served as Dean College of Economics and Social Development (CESD) at the Institute of Business Management (IOBM).

She has served on the Board of Directors of the Karachi Stock Exchange. She is member editorial board, Journal of the Institute of Far East – Russian Academy of Sciences and member editorial board, Asian Economic and Financial Review (AEFR), Asian Economic and Social Society (AESS) and JISR-MSSE..