Bilal Ahmed Chishty

Dr. Bilal Ahmed Chishty is currently associated with the Institute of Business and Management (IoBM) as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Accounting and Finance.

Bilal Ahmed Chishty has over 25 years of experience in accounting, finance, management, and teaching at middle and senior positions. He has been associated with private and public sector organizations of the country and serves Pakistan Defense Housing Authority (DHA), Federal Urdu University Karachi, Suffa University, Preston University, and Decent Exports.

He holds a Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Khadim Ali Shah Bukhari Institute of Technology (KASBIT), Karachi, and also did MS (finance) from Hamdard Institute of Management Sciences (HIMS) Karachi. Recently, he completed his Ph.D. from the University of Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) in the field of finance. His doctoral thesis was based on the impact of static and dynamic working capital management on growth of manufacturing firms in Pakistan. His core areas of research are short-term financing, capital structure, corporate finance, behavioral finance, and financial inclusion. He also has a good command on secondary datasets along with the handling of various statistical tools such as STATA, and E-views.

Bilal Ahmed Chishty has been teaching various courses in the field of Accounting, and Finance for the last 17 years at various universities and business institutes in Karachi. His teaching interest includes an introduction to business finance, financial management, corporate finance, entrepreneurial finance, analysis of financial statements, investment management, portfolio management, strategic finance, financial modeling, management accounting, and financial accounting.

Besides teaching, Bilal Ahmed Chishty also supervised various capstone projects of different industrial groups including Indus Motor Corporation, National Bank of Pakistan (NBP), Toyota Southern Motors, Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX), and Allied Logistics, First Equity Modaraba, Ismail Iqbal Securities (Pvt.) Ltd. etc.