Dr Muhammad Zakaria is Professor at Department of Economics, COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI). He obtained a PhD in Economics from Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad. He has completed post-doctoral studies in applied economics from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SHUFE), China. Before joining CUI, he has served at Ministry of Finance and at Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE). He has a number of publications in well reputed international journals including ABS, ABDC, SCOPUS (Q1)and JCR impact factor publications. His current area of research is applied economics.