Dr. Liaqat Ali Shah is the Executive Director and Head of Policy Division – Trade and Industrial Cooperation at the Centre of Excellence for China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CoE-CPEC), Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), Ministry of Planning, Development & Reform, Islamabad. Major responsibility as Head of Policy Division is to provide evidence-based research and recommendations for promoting industrialization and trade in Pakistan under CPEC. That include but not limited to the development of special economic zones(SEZs), trade and industrial strategies for SEZs, forward and backward linkages of the domestic economy with SEZs economy, industrial clusters identification and mapping, prioritization and promotion of export-led industry and devising trade facilitation measures. Besides, Dr. Liaqat works with different stakeholders in the industrial sector to ascertain the needs of the sector, identify the assumed threats to the sector that inhabit local industry participation in the SEZs and opportunities the CPEC industrial cooperation offer to the existing small and medium enterprises(SMEs) in the country.

Before joining CoE-CPEC, Dr. Liaqat Ali Shah was a faculty member at the Management Sciences Department of COMSATS University at Islamabad Campus. He worked there on different research projects including development of decision framework for economic corridor evaluation using value focused thinking approach (HEC funded), risk index development for construction projects, benefit management and benefit realization management with focus on special economic zones development under CPEC. Moreover, he co-authored research work with Dr. Aamir Khan on the economics of oil under CPEC, highlighting therein the benefits China can get in terms of oil transportation via CPEC. Furthermore, Dr. Liaqat supervised students and taught courses in the field of project management, operations and supply chain management in addition to mechanical product design process.

Dr. Liaqat has a major in Mechanical Engineering from University of Engineering & Technology Peshawar, Master and PhD degree in Industrial Management from Arts et Métiers ParisTech, France. Moreover, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université de Technologie de Compiègen(UTC) at Picardie France and a research associate at Ecole des Mines de Nantes at Pays de Loire France.

He has worked in National Engineering and Scientific Commission(NESCOM) as Assistant Manager (Technical) and has served as industrial systems analyst in Montupet automotive industry, France.

Moreover, Dr. Liaqat is involved in various research projects in collaboration with various research laboratories abroad. Among them is the development of supply chain simulator using SCOR Framework in the sustainability context (IRCCyN, Nantes), a novel simulation-based scheduling rule for Montupet Industry (UTC, Compiégne), and a decision support framework for industrial systems evaluation (LCFC & LGIPM, Metz). Much of the research conducted has been presented at prestigious international forums and has been published in reputable international journals.

PUBLICATIONS

1. Conferences Publications

• Shah, L., Siadat, A., Vernadat, F. (2009). Maturity assessment in risk management in manufacturing engineering. In Systems Conference, 3rd Annual IEEE, Vancouver Canada, pp. 296–301.
• Shah, L., Etienne, A., Siadat , A., Vernadat, F. (2011) Value/Risk based Performance Evaluation of Integrated Product and Process Design. International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management, IESM, Metz, France.
• Shah, L., Etienne, A., Siadat, A., Vernadat, F. (2012). (Value, Risk)-Based Performance Evaluation of Manufacturing Processes, Proc. 14th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (INCOM 2012), Bucharest, Romania, 23-25 May 2012.
• Shah, L., Etienne, A., Siadat, A., Vernadat, F. (2013). A Process-Oriented Risk Assessment Methodology for Manufacturing Processes, IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modeling, Management and Control, 19-21 June at Saint Petersburg, Russia
• Shah, L., Etienne, A., Siadat, A., Vernadat, F. (2013) Value-Risk Graph: A Tool for Decision-making in the Supply Chain and Industrial Context, IFAC International Conference on Management and Control of Production and Logistics, 11-13 September, Fortaleza, Brazil.
• Shah, L., Siadat, A., Vernadat, F. (2018). Performance Measures Appropriateness and Visualization in Industrial systems Context for Informed Decision Making (Bergamo, Italy).

2. Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

• Vernadat, F., Shah, L., Etienne, A., Siadat, A., 2013. VR-PMS: a new approach for performance measurement and management of industrial systems. International Journal of Production Research 51, 7420–7438 (impact factor: 2.4)
• Shah, L., Etienne, A., Siadat, A., Vernadat 2014. Decision-making in the manufacturing environment using Value-Risk Graph, Journal of Manufacturing Intelligence (impact factor :3.035)
• Shah, L., Etienne, A., Siadat, A., Vernadat 2016, Process-oriented Risk Assessment Methodology for Manufacturing Process Evaluations, International Journal of Production Research (impact factor: 2.4)
• Muhammad, A, Shah, L, A. China-Pakistan Economics Corridor-the Economics of Oil (submitted to International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, special issue: The One-Belt-One-Road Initiatives and its Impact on Global Supply Chain and Logistics
•  Shah, L., Bostel, N., Abbou, R., Castagna, P., Model-driven supply chain simulator design and development: SCOR based approach (ready to be submitted)

3. Working Papers

Amjad, F., Shah, L.A., 2018. Location Decision for Solar Farm Development Using GIS & Clustering Approach: A Case of Pakistan. available at https://cpec-centre.pk/

4. Miscellaneous

Muhammad, A; Shah, L, A. (2018). Economy Wide Impact of Energy Component of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)