Ali Cheema - CERP

Ali Cheema

Co-Founder and Principal Investigator

Dr. Ali Cheema is a co-founder and board member at CERP. He serves as an associate professor of Economics and the faculty director of the Mahbub-ul-Haq Research Centre at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Additionally, he holds the position of senior research fellow at the Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS). From 2004 to 2007, he also served as the head of the Economics Department at LUMS. Dr Ali possesses extensive experience in research and policy work, with a focus on political economy, governance, applied economics of crime and social protection, skills and the labor market. He was a member of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) at Columbia University and served on the Taskforce on Decentralisation. Furthermore, he was one of the founding members of the award-winning portal Relief Information System for Earthquakes, Pakistan (RISEPAK). Dr Ali’s recent work includes conducting large-scale impact evaluations of vocational training programs aimed at poverty reduction in Punjab, as well as studying the relationship between criminal incidence and labor market outcomes in Pakistan. Dr Ali holds a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Cambridge, an MPhil in Economics and Politics of Development, a BA (Hons.) in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) from Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a BA in Mathematics and Statistics from Government College, Lahore. In 2010-11, he had the privilege of being a visiting Fulbright and SAI Scholar at Harvard Kennedy School.

Ali Cheema

Co-Founder and Principal Investigator

Dr. Ali Cheema is a co-founder and board member at CERP. He serves as an associate professor of Economics and the faculty director of the Mahbub-ul-Haq Research Centre at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Additionally, he holds the position of senior research fellow at the Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS). From 2004 to 2007, he also served as the head of the Economics Department at LUMS. Dr Ali possesses extensive experience in research and policy work, with a focus on political economy, governance, applied economics of crime and social protection, skills and the labor market. He was a member of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) at Columbia University and served on the Taskforce on Decentralisation. Furthermore, he was one of the founding members of the award-winning portal Relief Information System for Earthquakes, Pakistan (RISEPAK). Dr Ali’s recent work includes conducting large-scale impact evaluations of vocational training programs aimed at poverty reduction in Punjab, as well as studying the relationship between criminal incidence and labor market outcomes in Pakistan. Dr Ali holds a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Cambridge, an MPhil in Economics and Politics of Development, a BA (Hons.) in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) from Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a BA in Mathematics and Statistics from Government College, Lahore. In 2010-11, he had the privilege of being a visiting Fulbright and SAI Scholar at Harvard Kennedy School.

Ali Cheema

Co-Founder and Principal Investigator

Dr. Ali Cheema is a co-founder and board member at CERP. He serves as an associate professor of Economics and the faculty director of the Mahbub-ul-Haq Research Centre at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Additionally, he holds the position of senior research fellow at the Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS). From 2004 to 2007, he also served as the head of the Economics Department at LUMS. Dr Ali possesses extensive experience in research and policy work, with a focus on political economy, governance, applied economics of crime and social protection, skills and the labor market. He was a member of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) at Columbia University and served on the Taskforce on Decentralisation. Furthermore, he was one of the founding members of the award-winning portal Relief Information System for Earthquakes, Pakistan (RISEPAK). Dr Ali’s recent work includes conducting large-scale impact evaluations of vocational training programs aimed at poverty reduction in Punjab, as well as studying the relationship between criminal incidence and labor market outcomes in Pakistan. Dr Ali holds a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Cambridge, an MPhil in Economics and Politics of Development, a BA (Hons.) in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) from Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a BA in Mathematics and Statistics from Government College, Lahore. In 2010-11, he had the privilege of being a visiting Fulbright and SAI Scholar at Harvard Kennedy School.