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Mr. Justice (R) Nadeem Akhtar

Mr. Justice (R) Nadeem Akhtar

Dean

LL.B., S.M. Law College, Karachi (1985)
LL.M., S.M. Law College, Karachi (1990)
Email: dean.fol@iqra.edu.pk

About

Mr. Justice (R) Nadeem Akhtar is a distinguished jurist, legal consultant, and academic with an illustrious career spanning over three decades in the judiciary and legal practice. He served as a Judge of the High Court of Sindh, where he adjudicated more than 15,000 civil cases, encompassing areas such as contractual disputes, admiralty, service, banking, company, and arbitration law.

During his tenure at the High Court (2012–2024), he held several key leadership roles, including Chairman of the Automation and Court Technologies Committee, Chairman of the Civil Rules Committee, and Chairman of the Judicial Studies and Administrative Training Board. He was also a Member of the Administration Committee of the Sindh High Court and part of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan’s Committee for defining judicial appointment criteria.

Justice (R) Akhtar also served as the Director General of the Sindh Judicial Academy, where he led initiatives in judicial education, capacity building, and legal reform. He oversaw comprehensive training programs for judges, prosecutors, advocates, and law enforcement officers across Sindh, and collaborated with national and international institutions to enhance the quality of judicial training and practice.

Before his elevation to the Bench, Justice Akhtar practiced law for over two decades at Akhtar Mahmud & Co., where he specialized in civil, commercial, and arbitration matters and served as a legal advisor to several leading financial institutions. His earlier career included serving in the Legal Department of ICI Pakistan Limited, where he was responsible for corporate compliance, contract vetting, and governance matters.

Currently, he continues to contribute to the legal community as a consultant, mediator, and arbitrator, appointed by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and the High Court of Sindh in various tax and contractual disputes. His work reflects a lifelong commitment to justice, rule of law, and legal education in Pakistan.

Bar Memberships: Member, Karachi Bar Association; Member, Sindh High Court Bar Association; Life Member, Supreme Court Bar Association.

Area of Expertise

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.