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Habilitation in Economics

Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien), Vienna, Austria

Ph.D. in Economics

New School for Social Research (NSSR), New York, USA

M.Sc. in Economics

Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan

B.Sc. (Hons.) Economics and Management

University of London External Programme

Senior Economist, Environment, Agriculture and Energy

Austrian Institute for Economic Research (WIFO), Vienna, Austria

Consultant

The World Bank, Washington DC

Research Scholar, Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA)

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria

Assistant Professor, Institute for Ecological Eonomics

Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien), Vienna, Austria

Research Director

Center for Economic Research Pakistan (CERP), Lahore, Pakistan

Research Associate

Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan

Lecturer,

University College Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

Distributional effects of climate shocks - A macroeconomic perspective (DiOD)

ÖNB Jubiläumsfond

Scaling-up green finance to achieve the climate and energy targets - An assessment of macro-financial opportunities and challenges for Austria (GREENFIN)

Austrian Climate Research Program (ACRP)

Simulating the environmental and socio-economic effects of shared autonomous electric vehicles - the case of Vienna (SIMSAEV)

Austrian Climate Research Program (ACRP)

Possibilities of consciously shaping mobility through the application of the principle of sufficiency in the Austrian context (MOBALANCE)

FFG (Austria)

Sustainable Growth in the Presence of Complex Financial Markets

ÖNB Jubiläumsfond

Pathways towards a Prosperous and Just EU Bioeconomy (BIOWAY)

ÖNB Jubiläumsfond

Microbe Literacy Health Initiative (MLI)

UBS Optimus Foundation (Switzerland)

Building Capacity to use Research Evidence (BCURE)

Department for International Development (DfID) (UK)

Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results (The CLEAR Initiative)

The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), World Bank (USA)

Journals

• Nature Climate Change, Nature Human Behavior, Climate Policy, Climatic Change, Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of Cleaner Production, Ecological Economics, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Regional Environmental Change, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, European Sociological Review

Donors

• Österreichische Nationalbanks Jubiläumsfonds (ÖNB, Austria), Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF, Germany)

2022

• Keynote, Stata UK 2022 conference (Sept 2022)
• Keynote, Stata Oceania 2022 conference (Jan 2022)

2021

• Keynote, Stata UK 2021 conference (Sept 2021)
• Modeling disasters impacts, cascading losses and economic complexity, UN OCHA (Geneva, Switzerland)

2020

• Environmental Inequality in Austria - Implications for COVID-19, COVID-19 Future Operations Platform (Vienna, Austria)

2019

• Coupled climate-ecology-economy modeling and model hierarchies, Institut Henri Poincare (Paris, France)
• Annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Regional Forschung (GfR), European Regional Science Association (ERSA) (Matrei in Osttirol, Austria)
• 20th Annual Austrian Climate Center meeting (Klimatag), Climate Change Center Austria (CCCA) (Vienna, Austria)

2018

• Annual conference of the European Association Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) (Nice, France)
• Knowledge Systems for Sustainability Collaborative (KSS), Climate KIC (European Comission) (Trento, Italy)
• Annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Regional Forschung (GfR), European Regional Science Association (ERSA) (Innsbruck, Austria)
• Uncovering the hidden cost of internal displacement, Internal Displacement Monitoring Cell (IDMC) (Geneva, Switzerland)

2017

• Annual conference of the European Association Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) (Budapest, Hungary)
• Instructor for the FMM Summer School (Berlin, Germany)
• Annual conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE) (Budapest, Hungary)
• Annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Regional Forschung (GfR), European Regional Science Association (ERSA) (Spital am Phyrrn, Austria)

Various lectures, workshops, and courses on Stata

SEEP Masters Program, Bachelors program

WU Vienna, Vienna, Austria

• Zukunftsfähiges Wirtschaften II (ZuWi II)
• Environment and the Economy II
• Environmental Change and Policy II (3 semesters)
• Growth, Well-being, and Development (2 semesters)
• Bridging course in Economics (2 semesters)

Computer Language Workshop, New School for Social Research

Economic Masters program, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)

University of London External Programme, University College Lahore