Dr. Naveed currently holds the post of Assistant Professor of Economics with 14 years teaching experience at University of Gujrat. He has earned MSc and MS degrees from IIU Islamabad and PhD from University of Gujrat (IRSIP-University of Bristol, UK). He is Next Generation Research Fellow at University of Bristol, UK. He served as a Visiting Lecturer at School of Policy Studies at University of Bristol, UK. He won many scholarships and awards, including the Bristol International Research Development Award, HEC-IRSIP Scholarship for the School of Policy Studies, University of Bristol and for Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)-Bangkok, and for CASS Business School-London (UK), the Gold Medal and South Asian Triple Helix Association Award 2016 and the Benazir Excellence Award 2015. He has worked on many research projects, including one at UOG, “Non-income Determinants of Human Development in Pakistan” funded by HEC-Pak. He has held various Research Fellowships, including ‘Non-income Determinants of Human Development in Pakistan and those concerning various aspects of the earthquake in 2005. He has more than 25 research publications in his account, and he is reviewer of various international journals, e.g. Social Indicators Research, the Journal of Asian Social Science and the Journal of Sustainable Development. He has supervised nearly twenty-five students in their MPhil, BSc and MSc dissertations. He is confident in the following statistical software packages: SPSS, STATA and EViews.