Dr. Abiha Zahra
Assistant Professor and Chairperson, Department of Governance and Global studies
PhD- Political and Social Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Public sector reforms, Organizations, Public policy and Performance management
Biography
Dr. Abiha Zahra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Governance and Global Studies, Information Technology University. She has obtained her PhD in Public Administration from KU Leuven, Belgium as an IRO doctoral scholar. Her research revolved around structural reforms and performance management systems in the State Organizations of Pakistan. She has developed a Pakistan State Administration Database (a longitudinal data base to study life cycle changes of state organizations in Pakistan). She has also worked in the Department of Political Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway to explore the role of political and administrative state actors in reforms. She has worked for a European project, COBRA (Comparative Public Organization Data Base for Research and Analysis – network) on the Governance and Management of Public sector organizations around the world with her team’s work focused on Pakistan.
Prior to joining the Information Technology University, she has served as an Assistant professor at University of Management &Technology and as a Lecturer at University of Central Punjab. She is still working as a distant research fellow with Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium while preparing the forthcoming book on Public sector reforms in Pakistan.
Dr. Zahra obtained her MPhil (Management Sciences) with roll of honor from Institute of Administrative Sciences, University of the Punjab and MBA (HR) with silver medal from COMSATS University Islamabad.
