Dr. Khalid Ahmed is currently serving as an IsDB research fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, and an Associate Professor at the Institute of Public Studies, University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei. He has also served as Associate Professor of Economics and Head of the Center for Research in Business and Economics at the Department of Business administration, Sukkur IBA University. His area of interest falls within Applied Economics, focusing on Environmental Economics and Policy. He has also served as the Director, Office of Research, Innovation, and Commercialization (ORIC) prior to his departure for a Post-doctorate at the University of Cambridge and University of Gottingen, which was jointly funded by Charles Wallace Foundation U.K and Erasmus Mundus European commission in 2015. Dr. Khalid received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Wuhan University of Technology P.R China in 2013 and has been Visiting Fellow at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), South Korea in 2014. He has been a research fellow at the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) at Judge Business School, University and Cambridge; and visiting fellow at the Department of Economics, Monash University in 2018. In addition, Dr. Khalid has managed two thematic research grants funded by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan as the principal investigator and one as the co-principal investigator. He is also the founder of the Behavioral Lab at Sukkur IBA University.