Hasan Sohaib Murad

Hasan Sohaib Murad is a scholar of organization and management. He has played a leading role in organizing a joint platform of all business schools in Pakistan as founding chairman of Association Management of Development Institutions of Pakistan (AMDIP) from 2002 to 2006. AMDIP is a constituent body of Association of Management Development Institutions of South Asia (AMDISA), a SAARC body based in Hyderabad, India. Murad is a member of the Executive Board of AMDISA. He has been part of the group formed to develop South Asian Quality Assurance System. He has also been member of the executive board of Asia Academy of Management, Hong Kong, an offshoot of Academy of Management, USA. Murad was founding secretary general of International Business Forum, a global networking platform of management and business professionals having headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey. He has been pioneering member of the core group constituted for Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative organized under European Foundation of Management, Brussels, in collaboration with Global Compact of United Nations. He is member of the Senate of University of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences. He was dean of the Institute of Leadership and management from 1995 to 2000 and is currently serving as rector of the University of Management and Technology, Lahore. He earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from NED University, Karachi, an MBA from Washington State University, and PhD from University of Wales, UK. He was the director general of Institute of Leadership and Management from 1992 to 1999. He is the founder member of board of Tricast media, an international mobile software technology enterprise, founder member of Board of ILM Trust since its inception in 1990, chairman of ILM Colleges and The Knowledge School network. Murad was recently appointed as the chairman of National Business Education Accreditation-council (NBEAC) legislature of Higher Education Commission (HEC) Government of Pakistan.

• Rector, University of Management and Technology (Pakistan) (UMT), Lahore since 2004
• Director General, Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) from 1992 to 1999
• Chairman, ILM Colleges, The Knowledge School project
• Chairman, MIZAB Engineering
• Chairman, First IBL Modaraba
• Chairman, Association for Academic Quality, (AFAQ)
• President, Association of Management Development Institutions in Pakistan (AMDIP)
• Member, Executive Board and Executive Council of Association of Management Development Institutions in South Asia (AMDISA)
• Member, Asia Academy of Management respectively
• Member, Board of Governors of Institute of Policy Studies (IPS),
• Member, Tricastmedia (Pvt) Ltd and International Business Forum, Turkey

• Bachelor of (Civil) Engineering, 1982. First Division NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan
• Master of Business Administration, 1986. GPA=3.8 Washington State University, USA
• Doctor of Philosophy, 1999, University of Wales, UK.

• Development of Organization structure for a financing institution having annual budget of USD 65 million.
• Organization development study for a textile concern having more than 100,000 spindles.
• Organization development study for a textile concern having more than65,000 spindles.
• Organization development study of the largest woolen mill in Pakistan.
• Development product Survey Profiles in non-traditional items for promotion of their exports on behalf of the Government of Pakistan.
• Supervised more than three dozen MBA final projects concerning various aspects of business and organization.
• To promote education and business in Pakistan, visited various institutions and organization of Japan and Singapore in April 2001, forcollaboration in the areas of research, teachers training and exchange visits by faculty members.