Dr. Tahir Mahmood is one of the most distinguished faculty members of the University of Chitral. He has obtained PhD in Economics from Georg August University, Goettingen, Germany and Postdoc Fellowship at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. His PhD research focuses on Poverty Measures, Gender Differences in Subjective Well-being, Food Insecurity and Malnutrition in Pakistan. While during his postdoc fellowship, he led the quantitative component of the KIP Index Project-developing a nuanced Women Empowerment Index for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) economies.
Born in Chitral, KP, Tahir Mahmood attended and graduated from Government College University, Lahore and obtained his MSc and MPhil degrees from Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad, Pakistan. After attaining his higher education, he gained employment in 2010 through Provincial and Federal Public Service Commission however, preferred to join F. G. Quaid-e-Azam degree College, Rawalpindi. He also served as a lecturer at COMSATS, Abbottabad.
Three years later he joined AWKUM, Chitral Campus. Afterwards, he went to Germany to pursue his higher studies in November 2014. During his studies in Germany, he was a scientific researcher, (AgreeCareerNet) at Georg August University, Goettingen, Germany and desigend a course (Agribusiness in Asia) and taught the course at Georg August University Goettingen, Germany. He also taught in Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Turkey for a while. He has peer-reviewed publications in international reputed journals and attended several international conferences. His research interests lie in the area of Development Economics, Health Economics, Applied Micro-econometrics and Global Issues – Social Inequality.
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