Dr. Asad ur Rehman is a faculty member of DPSIR (Department of political science and IR). He has received his PhD recently from the leading French school of Social Science, EHESS based in Paris. He has been previously worked as a research fellow with UNDP ad latter as a research associate with leading development think tank of Pakistan Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI). He has published research reports, working papers and peer reviewed journals on myriad dimension of public and development policy i.e. poverty alleviation, social citizenship, electoral politics and social science.
His doctoral research was on, Engagement Gradients of informal politics in Pakistani Punjab. Building on the work on political sociologists he tried to show how a programmatic-patronage/clientelist dichotomy is not sufficient to explain the political system and its democratic currents in Pakistan. He is working on publishing his thesis in a book form at the moment.