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Dr. ABRAR ChaudhuryCLIMATE RESEARCHERPhD - M.Sc - University of OxfordGET TO KNOW ME

Thank you @BritishAcademy_ for supporting our #climate engagement in Pakistan. Working with dream team @schipper_lisa @SaherHasnain @HigherEdSoc @foziaTahir @umerkhayyam on making Pakistan resilient. @sherryrehman @MoCCPak @aminattock https://t.co/sshRzewB84

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We are very honoured that @AbrarChaudhury received a @BritishAcademy_ International Writing Workshop award to support the #climatechange work of researchers in Pakistan. The devastating #PakistanFloods in 2022 show how important such collaboration is.
https://t.co/DjWKRvF05G https://t.co/K67FSII2Dy
We are very honoured that @AbrarChaudhury received a @BritishAcademy_ International Writing Workshop award to support the #climatechange work of researchers in Pakistan. The devastating #PakistanFloods in 2022 show how important such collaboration is.
https://t.co/DjWKRvF05G https://t.co/K67FSII2Dy
HELLO,
Dr. Abrar Chaudhury holds a research faculty post at the Said Business School, University of Oxford and is a British Academy Fellow. He is affiliated with Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute and Green Templeton College. Abrar is a global professional with over 20 years’ experience in technology, consulting and research contexts across multiple continents and sectors.
Abrar’s research interests span challenges at the intersection of environmental management, sustainable development and organisation theory and strategy. He is currently involved in a pioneering Oxford collaboration with EY Global, to understand how and why C-Suite and Boards from large global MNCs are again focused on corporate ‘purpose’ in a turbulent global economy. The findings contribute to a global research initiative on corporate transformation to meet the challenges of the early 21st century.
Abrar has recently completed Pakistan’s and Punjab’s profile for Climate Smart Agriculture funded by the World Bank and Food and Agriculture Organisation. The findings from the profile were launched in COP24 in Poland.
Abrar is currently on a 3-year British Academy Fellowship at Oxford in 2019 investigating the ways in which dedicated climate funding, such as the Green Climate Fund, and emerging technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence and blockchain, shape implementation and diffusion of climate action in Pakistan and emerging economies.
He is an experienced teacher, contributing to Oxford programmes on the MBA and EMBA including specialty electives. He works with executives in a variety of contexts and has been involved in number of public sector and private workshops around governance and environment in emerging economies. He publishes widely in leading academic journals and presents at numerous global conferences.
Abrar holds a Doctorate in Environmental Change and Management (awarded best dissertation at the 2017 Academy of Management, USA), and MBA and an MSc in Environmental Management (Distinction) from the University of Oxford and is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA). His doctoral research explored the organizational and network challenges of implementation to develop and deliver climate change adaptation policy in emerging economies, based on extensive fieldwork in Ghana, Nepal, and Pakistan. Prior to Oxford, Abrar was a partner in a leading accounting firm in Pakistan.
MY RESUME
Previous associations that helped to gather experience.
July-Sept 2010
Developed business plan for web-based trading platform intended to encourage the growth of the UK social enterprise sector through corporate procurement: Identifying key target…
1998-2011
Established in 1947 and ranked in the top ten professional services firms of Pakistan. The firm has 4 offices across the country and employs 300…
2011-2015
Developing and testing a novel participatory framework (PSROI) for planning and costing adaptation to climate change in multiple subsistence farming communities in East Africa (Kenya)…
2011-2016
Systemic Integrated Adaptation (SIA) Project, Nepal & Ghana SIA is a multidisciplinary research project funded by CGIAR’s Climate Change, Agriculture & Food Security Research Program…
2016
Global Opportunity and Threats Oxford (GOTO) MBA Module
2016-To date
Beacon Project (EY/SBS joint project) researching on the changing nature of ‘purpose’ of large corporations
1991-1993
Bachelors in Arts Major in Economics and Journalism, Minor in Statistics
1993-1998
Fellow Chartered Accountant Qualified in first attempts in top 1%
2009-2010
Masters of Business Administration (MBA) Distinctions: Finance, Micro Economics, Macro Economics, Accounting, Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurial Project
2010-2011
MSc Environmental Change & Management Graduated with Distinction Thesis: Community Based Adaptation Costing Framework for Climate Change Case Study Site: Western Kenya
2011-2016
PHD Geography and Environment Thesis: Organising Adaptation to Climate Chang: An organizational and network perspective to robust climate change adaptation in developing countries Case Study…
Teaching
MY RESUME
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TEACHING
Teaching Fellow MBA and EMBA Modules – Said Business School – Oxford 2016 – present
- Tutor MBA Global Opportunity and Threats (GOTO) Module. Tutored best awarded GOTO project
- Teaching Fellow- EMBA / MBA Strategy and Innovation Elective Module
- MBA Trinity 2018 Tech for Good Elective
- MBA Social Network Analysis
Teaching Fellow Executive Education Program Said Business School – Oxford 2017 – present
- UAE Prime Minister’s Office –Shaping Futures Module for 60 senior Govt. officials
- Diploma in Organisational Leadership – Network module for 60 mid-career executives
- Executive Strategy and Innovation module
- Barclays Executive Programme
Environmental Change Institute – University of Oxford
- MSc Env Change and Mang, Governance and Development Elective
- Research Methods – Social Network Analysis
- Organisational Design for Adaptation Challenges Elective
Research Fellow / College Adviser Green Templeton College –Oxford
PUBLICATIONS
147
Citations
8
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BLOG POSTS
On a hot summer day in Accra, a number of people starting descending at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GEMPA) on the…
How local knowledge and resource networks shape the adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers: insights from rural Ghana
William, a 40-year-old farmer from Orbili, a small village in Northern Ghana, is neither the largest landholder nor the most educated man in the village.…
Bite-Size Planning: Can Local Adaptation Planning Motivate South-South Learning Exchanges?
Unpredictable rains are a farmer’s biggest nightmare. Too much of it or too little of it can have devastating impacts on the crops and livelihoods…
The Value in the Difference – A New Participatory Framework to Plan and Cost Local Agriculture Adaptation
Estimating costs of adapting to climate change is unavoidably subjective. It depends on what is counted and what is not, and then what value is…
Show Me The Money: Why Environmentalists and Businesses Need to Speak the Same Language
In a recent panel discussion at the World Economic Forum 2014 – “Doing Business the Right Way” an audience member asked Richard Goyder, CEO of…
Closing the Distance from the Green Climate Fund to Farmers in Ghana
Over 12,500 km separate Lawra from Incheon. One is a small dusty farming town in Upper West Ghana, the other, a modern metropolis and the…
From Wall St to Farmers in Ghana: Finance Fundamentals Remain the Same
On any given Wednesday afternoon, on the hot and dusty road connecting Orbili Village to Lawra, a small bustling district city in upper west region…
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