Currently, I am an Assistant Professor at Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), Islamabad, which is a top-ranked policy research and graduate level teaching institution in Pakistan. I had also served this institute as Head of Departments of Environmental Economics and Development Studies. I received my doctorate in Regional and Rural Development Planning from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand in 2011. Besides, I was a medallist during my Master degree in Rural Development. Since 2012, I am serving the International Society of Environment and Rural Development (ISERD) Japan as its Regional Vice President. More recently, I represented the ISERD at the 4th International Symposium Agrosym 2013 organized by the University of East Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I have an honour of serving as a member of scientific committees, session chair and discussant at various international conferences in South and Southeast Asia, Europe and Africa. My research interests revolve around the nexus between society, environment and natural resources and participatory rural and regional development. Currently, I am supervising researches related to non-market valuation, rural livelihood and nature conservation, decentralization, natural resources management and poverty issues. I have published on water and forest policy issues in reputed international journals. My publications have received very encouraging policy feedback from the concerned stakeholders. My article titled The Indus Irrigation System, Natural Resources, and Community Occupational Quality in the Delta Region of Pakistan (2011) was featured at the cover-page of Environmental Management – a highly prestigious journal published by Springer Verlag, New York. Similarly, another of my research titled Preliminary Social and Environmental Assessment of Zulfikarabad: a New Coastal Mega City Project in Pakistan (2012), published in the International Journal of Environment and Rural Development, was taken as the base research by Pakistan’s Civil Society for their positition paper on Zulfikarabad Megacity Project in the coastal areas of Sindh, Pakistan.