About

Dr. Omar Javaid has a Ph.D. in Socially Sustainable Entrepreneurship from the Institute of Business Management, MS in Management Sciences from KIET, MBA-Exec from IoBM with majors in Marketing and BE in Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering from NED University. Dr. Javaid has a total of 17 years of experience working in corporate, non-profit, and education sectors; this experience also includes extensive international traveling to Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Maldives, Doha for professional and research-related activities. Dr. Javaid’s core competence is mentoring new startups and ventures; since 2010 he has helped hundreds of students in their entrepreneurial ambitions. He has also been empowering students to set up micro-businesses for poor unemployed folks and has successfully initiated around 600 such projects during his academic career up till now. Dr. Javaid has been invited multiple times to IBA, NED University, UIT, NEST I/O, and SoL to speak on topics related to entrepreneurship. He has also published various research articles and editorials in various journals, magazines, and newspapers; and is a reader of Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship, Islamic Economics and Finance, and Philosophy of Economics and Business Management. Apart from teaching at IoBM, he is also responsible to mentor IoBM students to set up entrepreneurial ventures and facilitating the process of developing an entrepreneurial ecosystem within the Institute.