'Asim Khwaja', First Pakistani professor hired by Harvard

Proud to be on our boy Prof. Asim Khwaja..
Zindabad Pakistan

BOSTON: Pakistani professor, Asim Khwaja, has become one of the first Pakistanis to achieve tenure at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Tenure guarantees academic freedom as well as job security. Tenure is offered to the best and brightest of the professors who show the most promise in increasing the universitys reputation through their research, books and unique ideas. Tenure protects teachers and researchers when they dissent from prevailing opinion, openly disagree with authorities of any sort, or spend time on unfashionable topics. Khwajas areas of interest include economic development, education, political economy, and contract theory/mechanism design. His research combines extensive fieldwork, rigorous empirical analysis, and microeconomic theory to answer questions that are motivated by and engage with policy. It has been published in the leading economics journals, such as the American Economic Review, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and has received coverage in numerous media outlets such as the Economist, NY Times, Washington Post, BBC, and CNN. His recent work ranges from understanding market failures in emerging financial markets to examining the private education market in low-income countries. He was selected as a Carnegie Scholar in 2009, for his compelling ideas and commitment to enriching the quality of the public dialogue on Islam. Khwaja was cited for his research on how the pilgrimage to Mecca affects individual pilgrims economic, social, ethical, and cultural outlooks. I hope that my research on the impact of the Haj pilgrimage on the pilgrim will inform the wider academic debate on the nature and interaction of religious and non-religious beliefs in Islam, said Asim.

He received high school degree in Pakistan and then received his BS in economics and in mathematics with computer science from MIT and a PhD in economics from Harvard. Asims parents, Ijaz and Zahida Khwaja, were proud of their son. What can we say? Today he is every Pakistani parents son, said Dr Khwaja. Harvards tenure process is known to be very confidential and strict. Individuals do not apply for tenure but are recommended and then go through a series of vetting processes which include soliciting recommendation letters regarding the candidate from top faculty. The process culminates in a final ad hoc meeting where the president has veto power. Harvards tenure rates are fairly low, and, therefore, it is not common for an assistant professor to ever get tenure from Harvard. He started his academic career from Harvard and was an assistant professor before he got promoted as an associate professor and finally full professor. He also has offers of tenure from Dartmouth, Vanderbilt and Berkeley. When asked how he was feeling he responded, I hope this will open more doors for future Pakistanis to pursue academia and reach our potential.

read more about Prof Asim Khwaja: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/asim-khwaja

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[tehreekeinsaaf]

@ Venomx79:

where did I mention that he's hired by Harvard University.. If you can read the description it's clearly written that he is hired by Harvard Kennedy.. okayyyyy

[hllout3]

John F. Kennedy School of Government is a school of Harvard University, like, Harvard Business School; offering programs in Government and Politics. So, indeed, he's offered a position in Harvard University.

[tehreekeinsaaf]

Thanks for enlighten us

[ibnekhaldoun]

He must be pathetic patsy if the US does not hate him like Dr A Q Khan. He is a fool like Hamza Alavi. Hamza Alavi wrote a chapter in a key book "Ideologies and ... in Pakistan." which gave account of our splits to the enemy. Another such professor at BU is Hussain Haqqani. I write this to clarify the distortion of our values by such selfish people in a "competitive" rise by trampling, zero-sum society of ours who are total loss to our civilization.