Dr Memoona Rauf Khan is currently a senior academic and Independent Consultant with both national and international experience in the field of Applied Economics, Quantitative Methods and Research Methods. In CASE she teaches Research Proposal Development, Research Methodology and Quantitative Methods to MEM and PH.D classes. Apart from advising several PH D students, she is giving research advice on writing and methodology to many more. With more than 8 years of teaching experience, Dr Memoona has taught Research methods, Microeconomics and Business and Competitive Economics, and Statistics/Econometrics and Mathematical Economics at the undergraduate and the post graduate levels. She also has 17 years of experience in economic analysis and research in International development organizations and the Public Sector in Pakistan. She has published a number of internationally referred articles in reputed conferences/and books.

Educational Qualifications

PhD. Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, Michigan 1996 Thesis: “Impact of Irrigation Systems on Rice Productivity and of Infrastructure on Farm-Households' Decision-making in Central Punjab 1992” M.A International and Development Economics, Yale University, Connecticut 1987 Diploma Co-operative Banking, Finance, Part 1, Karachi, Pakistan 1982 M.S Economics, Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan 1978

Work Experience

Dr Memoona Rauf has built up expertise in development economics, as well as socio-economic quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation, and program and project design and management. Professionally she has utilized and honed her specialized skills Due to a unique blend of professional analytical and quantitative skills and excellent English language skills, she has written many analytical reports for the World Bank, ActionAid, as well as for USAID, MSI, ADB etc. Dr Memoona has held Senior Consultancy positions in Management Systems International, USAID funded projects and with Semiotics-Asian Development Bank funded projects, as well as key upper management positions in Pakistani academia and in the International Development sector. She was Chairperson, Economics within the International Islamic University and Research Consultant in the NUST Institute of Management Sciences, Natural Resources Economist in the World Bank and Senior Program Manager in National Productivity Organization and ActionAid Pakistan. she has also held positions in the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council and Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Government of Pakistan.

Email: memoonarkhan@live.com

Research Interests

Control System, Digital System Design, and Real-Time Embedded systems

Research Publications

with Zohra Jabeen. “An Inquiry into the Usage of Real Assets in Islamic Transactions and their Benchmarking, the Implications for Islamic Capital Markets”, Chapter 5 in Islamic Capital Markets Products Regulations and Development, Proceedings of International Conference ed Salman Syed Ali, Islamic Research and Training Institute, Jeddah, 2008. Soil Degradation in Pakistan”. Paper presented at the International Conference for Environmentally Sustainable Development organized by the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abottabad. The full paper was published in the Conference proceedings, July 26-28, 2005. “Subsectoral Analysis of the Poultry Industry in Pakistan,” Journal of Science & Technology Policy & Scientometrics, July-December 2002, Volume 1, No 2 pp 58-78, Pakistan Council for Science and Technology, Islamabad. The Impact of Irrigation Systems on Rice Productivity in the Rice-Wheat Belt in Central Punjab.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association, August 5-8, 2001, Chicago, U.S.A. with James Oehmke. “Impacts of Access to Commercial and Educational Infrastructure on Off-farm Employment and Male/Female Education in C. Punjab, 1992.” Conference Paper presented at the International Association for Agricultural Economists, Harare, Zimbabwe, August 1994. Published in the Conference Proceedings. with Dr J.A Wicks, S. Parveen, M. Shahid. “Towards an Integrated Farm Management Survey of Pakistan: An Application to the Punjab Barani Tract,” Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences, Islamabad, December 1986.