S. Akbar ZaidiS. Akbar Zaidi is currently the Executive Director of the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi. He was Professor at Columbia University, New York from 2010 to 2020, where he held a joint position at the School of International and Publc Affairs, and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. He was also Adjunct Professor at the IBA from 2013 to 2020. In his academic career of over 35 years, he has taught courses on colonial history, Pakistani history and on the political economy of South Asia. His most recent publication is New Perspectives on Pakistan's Political Economy (Cambridge, 2019) which he co-edited with Matthew McCartney. Read More Read Less