Mehtab S. Karim

Professor Mehtab S. Karim has over four decades of experience working at universities in Pakistan, the USA and UK. At present, he is a distinguished Senior Fellow in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University in the USA, where earlier he was a Research Professor. He earned BA Honours from the University of Karachi, MS in Social Science from the University of Chicago, and PhD in Sociology from Cornell University.  He has held academic positions at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University in the USA and the London School of Economics in the UK. On behalf of the Higher Education Commission, he was a visiting professor at Quaid-i-Azam University and the University of Karachi and was the founding Vice Chancellor of Malir University of Science and Technology in Karachi. He has co-authored three books and has been invited as a speaker at over 40 universities in North America, Europe, the Middle East, South and South East Asia and Australia.