Dr. Bilal Ahmed, Senior Economist & M&E Expert

Dr. Bilal Ahmed

Senior Economist & M&E Expert

Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER)

Location
Pakistan - Karachi
Education
Doctorate, Economics
Experience
19 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 6 Months

Senior Economist & M&E Expert at Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER)
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • My current job since September 2011

Leading Survey and field work (1600 households, 17 Districts of Pakistan ) \nQuantitative and Empirical Modelling \nProducing Economic Articles \nEconomic Forecasting \nResearch Advisory \nFinancial Programming and Budgetary Issues \nProject Administration and Resource Allocation \nProject forecasting Modelling \nPresenting Project and Institution \nPrimary and Secondary data research \nReport Writing and Data-basing \nMonitoring and Evaluation \nCoordination with donor, partners, media, civil society and govt. officials \nConducting Training and seminars

Assistant Professor - Head Economics and Research Department at Greenwich University- Karachi
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • May 2015 to May 2016

Leading social and economic research project and teaching following courses.
1. Microeconomics
2. Macroeconomics
3. Research Method
4. Project Research and Managing Survey
5. Data Analysis with computer packages
6. Econometric Modeling for Field Researcher
7. Primary data Modeling
8. Managing Research based projects

Assistant Professor (IPFP) at Higher Education Commision of Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • May 2015 to May 2016
Ph.D -Research Fellow at University of Karachi
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • January 2006 to March 2013

Secondary data research \nPart-time Teaching \nConducting Research Work of Phd

Economist at Soical Policy and Development Center (SPDC)
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • February 2007 to September 2011

Economic Research and Econometric Modelling \nEconomic Forecasting \nProducing Economics Research Articles \nPrimary and Secondary data Research \nlarger conditional data Basing \nProject Research and consultancies \nProject financial programming \nResource allocation and filed programming \nTraining and Seminars \nManagement Function \nCoordination activities \nMonitoring and Evaluation \nReport Writing Survey and FGD

Consultant at SPDC
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • February 2011 to May 2011

Project Title : Up gradation of primary school \nDonor : JICA \nLocal Partner : Social Policy and Development Center (SPDC) \nYear & Location : 2011, 7 District of Sindh \nPosition : Consultant \nNature : It was the monitoring and evaluation project to investigate the 140 primary schools for the up gradation into middle. The JICA was appealed by Government of Sindh to grant for up gradation of same schools and this study was reporting by field survey that which schools are eligible and which are not.

Researcher (Consultant) at SPDC
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • September 2010 to December 2010

Project Title : Rapid Assessment: Flood Damage of schools of Govt. of Sindh \nDonor : World Bank \nLocal Partner : Social Policy and Development Center (SPDC) \nYear & Location : 2010, Throughout Sindh \nPosition : Researcher \nNature : The purpose of this study was to report the flood damage in schools of Sindh province. It was the telephonic survey of entire 52000 schools under ownership of Government of Sindh in 23 districts.

Consultant at Azad Foundation
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • June 2010 to December 2010

Project Title : Rapid situational Assessment of Street Children \nDonor : UNICEF \nLocal Partner : Azad Foundation-Karachi \nYear & Location : 2010, Karachi \nPosition : Consultant \nNature : The purpose of this research was to estimate the numbers of street children in selected town of Karachi, and analysis their activities, needs, priorities, risk patterns, current governmental and nongovernmental activities targeting street children. It was the survey of 500 children.

Economist cum Districts Team Leader (Consultant) at SPDC
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • September 2010 to November 2010

Project Title: Third Party Validation of School and Teachers Recruitment (Round-II) \nDonor: World Bank \nLocal Partner : Social Policy and Development Center (SPDC) \nYear &Location : 2010, Throughout Sindh \nPosition : Economist cum Districts Team Leader \nNature :The project has been assign to SPDC by World Bank to perform the role of Monitoring and Evaluation of the fund issued to Government of Sindh by World Bank in 12 districts to strengthen the schooling and teacher recruitment. It was survey based research of 500 hundred schools and in-house meetings with district education department.

Researcher cum district team leader (Consultant) at SPDC
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • October 2009 to December 2009

Project Title : Socio-economic Characteristic of Female Headed Household \nDonor : Royal Norwegian Embassy \nLocal Partner : Social Policy and Development Center (SPDC) \nYear & Location : 2009, Eights major cities of Pakistan \nPosition : Researcher cum district team leader \nNature : The purpose of this investigation was to find-out the degree of woman empowerment in operating householdand comparing female headed household with male headed by employing primary data of 1600families.

HR Officer at Alsons Group of Industires
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • February 2004 to March 2005

Staffing and Training \n Salary and compensation \nSecurity and safety \nHealth and insurances \nPicnic and parties, ISO9000 and coordination with government agencies \nlegal matters \nAdministrative responsibilities

Education

Doctorate, Economics
  • at University of Karchi
  • July 2013

Ph.D. (Economics), University of Karachi-Pak, Thesis: ”Evaluation of Financial Reforms in Macroeconomics Framework”

Specialties & Skills

Consultant Coordination
Econometrics
Economic Modeling
Survey Research
project budgeting and financial perdition
multiple field survey methodologies
allocate the resources
Questionnaire base research
Programming Models and algorithms” by utilizing the Syntax editor of SPSS.
Human Resource Management and Administration
Lobbing, Networking & Advocacy
Multitasking
Research Project Management
Economic forecasting
Economic Research and Modelling
Forecasting
developed the large Databases
Demonstrator and Campaigner
Research (qualitative and quantitative)
mathematical studies

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Around 30 Trainings (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2000
Valid Until:
September 2012

Hobbies

  • writing and research on society