Professor Dr. Muhammad Ashfaq is currently working as Professor/Dean, Faculty of Management Studies, the University of Faisalabad-Pakistan. He completed his graduation in 1985 and earned MS degree in Agricultural Economics in 1988. He won the scholarship in 1990-91, from USAID for training in Agricultural Marketing and Sales from Colorado State University, USA. Later on he won scholarship from the World Bank for higher studies in Australia and went to University of New England, Armidale Australia in 1995 and successfully completed his PhD degree. There he carried out his doctoral level research on the key issue of agricultural policy in Pakistan. During his stay in Australia, he also actively participated in various socio-cultural activities. In the year 2006, he also won a prestigious Higher Education Commission funded fellowship and went to University of Laval, Canada for his post doctorate studies. Dr. Ashfaq has rendered services as consultant to various national and international organizations. He is also acting as PhD/MS supervisor for ICDD, Kassel University, Germany. He has also won the TWAS Associateship Award in 2011 and Australian Alumni Excellence Award in 2013 for Innovation and Research. He has supervised 12 PhD students and more than 150 MS/M.Phil/MSc students. He is the author/co-author of 5 books; 14 chapters and more than 100 research papers published in peer reviewed journals. He is also working as editor/section editor of different journals. He has completed 32 research projects as PI/Co-PI which were funded by national and international organisations like USAID, ACIAR, ICARDA, IFPRI, ILRI, AgMIP, JBIC, ADB, JICA, TiKA, UK Met Dept. and Govt of Pakistan.
Experience: Prof. Ashfaq have more than 32 years of rich teaching and research experience and have interest and worked on various research projects in the following areas;
o Irrigated Agriculture
o Impact Assessment of Interventions and policy
o Supply Chain Management
o Climate Change and Poverty

Ku Maisurah Ku Bahador received her PhD in Accounting Information Systems from the University of South Australia in 2014. Her research interests include IT competency, information systems auditing, quality assurance, digital business, sustainability, social business & entrepreneurship. She has published articles in several journals, including Scopus/WoS-indexed journals and book chapters. Ku Maisurah also has extensive experience in providing consulting focusing on quality assurance based on ISO 9001:2015, as well as strategic planning of organizations. In terms of academic role, she also conducts classes for accounting students (undergraduate and postgraduate level) and supervises PhD and master students.

With an experience of more than fifteen years, Saud has proficiency in all types of data handling and analysis including Big Data (Huge, Fat and Large). He has expertise in Macro-Econometric Modeling, Micro-econometric Modeling, a-theoretical simulation techniques and Forecasting. As a Data Analyst, he worked in UNICEF funded project “Sustainability Check on WASH Services (Rural Open Defecation Free and Rural Drinking Water Supply Schemes - RWSS) in Sindh & Punjab” in collaboration with National University of Science and Technology (NUST) and ANN associates. He worked as Lead Econometrician in Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) funded project “Economic Management Modeling in ECO Member Countries”. As a team lead he evaluated the methodological aspects of Global Innovation Index (GII) and highlight the reasons behind poor performance of PAKISTAN in GII 2016. He is trained at National School of Public Policy, Lahore on a course “Ambassador Of Evidence: Training of Trainers”. He attended workshop on Price Statistics at “Training Wing, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, Islamabad”. He remained Member of National Curriculum Revision Committee (NCRC) of Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan. He is member of ‘Energy Division’ at Pakistan Institute of Development Economics. Currently he has been working on several Demand Driven Research (DDR) studies requested from Finance Division Government of Pakistan, Chief Economist Pakistan and Pay & Pension Commission of Pakistan.

Haryani Santo Hartono adalah peneliti doktoral di bidang Ekonomi di Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia (UIII). Dia memegang gelar Master dalam Studi Islam dari International Open University dan gelar Sarjana Manajemen Keuangan. Minat penelitiannya berpusat pada ekonomi Islam dan keuangan etis, dengan fokus khusus pada bagaimana prinsip-prinsip moral dan etika Islam dapat memajukan keadilan, inklusi, dan keberlanjutan dalam sistem ekonomi kontemporer. Melalui karyanya, ia berusaha menjembatani kesenjangan antara pemikiran etis Islam dan pembangunan ekonomi praktis, berkontribusi pada lanskap keuangan yang lebih adil dan didorong oleh nilai.