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Dr. Rafaya Ahmed

Junior Lecturer

M.Phil (In Progress) Pharmacy Practice
Pharm-D Pharmacy

About

“Dr. Rafaya Ahmed has been the pioneering Faculty member and Coordinator of the Department of Pharmacy at Iqra University since its inception in 2019. She is a dynamic, passionate, and cooperative young woman who believes in providing maximum opportunities for professional development to her students.
The organization of Mega Events, Seminars, and Workshops, which gained widespread popularity in national media outlets and were attended by the renowned dignitaries of the profession, has been her commendable contribution for the university. She has led the internship opportunities for students in many organizations, which has proved to be the most enriching experience for them.
Her exceptional expertise in leadership and scholastic pursuits, as well as in being a tremendous public speaker has been appreciated immensely. She has been invited as a Guest Speaker at many universities nationally, for which she received multiple Awards of Recognition. She has also conducted Diplomatic Core Events as the Stage Secretary in Karachi attended by Ambassadors and Consul Generals of different countries.
She is currently pursuing her Post-graduation and aims to continually build herself up, day by day, to become an inspiration for the young, upcoming pharmacists of Pakistan.”

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Publications & Research Work

Dr. Muhammad Shahnawaz Adil

Dr. Muhammad Shahnawaz Adil is an Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Management at Iqra University, Karachi. He holds more than 17 years of full-time university teaching, research, mentorship, and graduate thesis supervision experience. Additionally, he has been serving as the Cluster Head (Management) since January 2020 at the Main Campus. He is currently a member of the advisory and review boards of 18 national and international scholarly journals. 

He has presented various research ideas at international conferences abroad and has published over 25 research papers in national and international journals with 700+ Google citations. He has also authored a monograph on Leadership and Strategy published in Germany. He is an HEC-approved PhD supervisor and five Ph.D. candidates are going to complete their doctoral thesis under his sole supervision. In addition to supervising several industrial projects, 32 MPhil and hundreds of MBA students have successfully passed their research thesis in the Management discipline under his sole supervision. His research interests include the dark side of leadership, workplace mistreatment, multilevel modeling, and creative performance in higher education. He completed a ten-day comprehensive Training of Trainers conducted by Sindh HEC in May 2023.

Dr. Shahnawaz earned his Ph.D. degree in Management from an AACSB and AMBA-accredited business school of Malaysia in 2021. Earlier, he received his MPhil from Iqra University, a ‘triple-crown’ (AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS-accredited) MBA from Newcastle University (UK), Postgraduate Diploma from Stratford College London (UK), and B.Sc. (Honours) with Distinction from London Metropolitan University, UK. He has secured seven consecutive distinctions in his academic career and has clinched First Class First Position at Sindh Board of Technical Education. He has been associated with Iqra University as a permanent faculty member in the Department of Business Administration since August 2008. His main hobbies include horse-riding, playing scrabble, cooking, bird-farming, and long driving.