About

Dr. Areeba Khan is an HEC approved Ph.D supervisor in Finance. She completed her Ph.D in Finance from University Putra Malaysia (UPM). Before that, she did her Masters in Financial Management from Durham University U.K, and MBA from Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan, after completing her BBA from the same institution. She is a Faculty Development Program Phase I scholarship awardee and In charge of the Department of Islamic and Conventional banking at present.  She has served at the review panel of various journals of national and international standing and has been instrumental in developing industrial and academic linkages with different professional organizations. She has served at quite a few administrative positions in her past, including Coordinator MBA program and In charge of the Postgraduate Admissions Committee and Departmental QEC in addition to her charge as Head of Department of Islamic and Conventional Banking. She is also Head of Paper Management in Green Campus Project (GCP) of the IUB.

Research Interests

Strategic finance, Islamic Finance, Equity Markets, Banking and Financial development

Awards and Honors

1. Best Paper Award at 2nd International Conference on Business Entrepreneurship and Research (ICBER, 2020).
2. Best Paper Award at 2nd National Conference on Business Research (NCBR, 2019)
3. Best Paper Award at International Conference on Business Educational and Management, held at IBA University Sukker (February 21, 2018).
4. Successfully completed IMF -Harvard University Certificate Course in Financial Inclusion and Financial Development (2020).
5. Successfully supervised 3 Ph.D dissertations.
6. Successfully supervised 21 Masters dissertations.
7. Ph.D scholarship holder under Faculty Development Program
8. Recipient of PHEC Conference Travel Grant for MIC, 2018.
9. Member review board of Journal of Finance and Accounting Research (JFAR)
10. Member of Academic Research Committee SBM&AS.
11. Member United Nations University-Wider
12. Member of Financial Management Association International (FMAI).
13. Member of Chartered Institute of Islamic Finance Professionals (CIIFP).

Publications

PUBLICATIONS IN HEC RECOGNIZED JOURNALS

1. ‘Enigmatic role of female directors on boards towards corporate performance. An empirical study’ (Sohail Saeed and Areeba Khan) Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies 7(2) https://doi.org/10.26710/jbsee.v7i2.1659 HEC Recognized (Y Category).

2. ‘Impact of psycho-social dimensions in adoption and use of credit cards. An empirical study from Pakistan’ (Sohail Saeed with Areeba Khan and Hina Shamshad) Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies 7(2) HEC Recognized (Y https://doi.org/10.26710/jbsee.v7i2.1660Category).

3. ‘Mediating Role of Working Capital Management in the Relationship of Corporate Governance Measures and Firm Performance: Panel Study from Pakistan’ (Areeba Khan with Rana Shahid Yaqub and Awais Javeed) Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies, 7(2) HEC Recognized (Y Category). https://doi.org/10.26710/jafee.v7i2.1655

4. ‘Role of Information and Communication Technology, Foreign Direct Investment and Trade Openness in Environmental Sustainability’ (Sulaman hafeez Siddiqui with Sohail Saeed, Areeba Khan and Hina Bhatti) Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies, 7(2) 10.26710/jafee.v7i2.1656 HEC Recognized (Y Category).

5. ‘Impact of Microfinance on quality of life, personal empowerment and familial harmony of female borrowers in Pakistan’ (Areeba Khan with Sana Fayyaz) Journal of Public Affairs, 2021. 10.1002/pa.2614 HEC Recognized (X Category).

6. ‘The Drivers of Stock Market Growth in Pakistan: How Relevant is Irrelevant?’ (Areeba Khan, Quratul Ain, & Hafiz Abdur Rashid). Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies, 6(4). 10.26710/jafee.v6i4.1479 HEC Recognized (Y Category).

7. ‘Determinants of Customer Perception about adoption of Islamic Insurance (Takaful) in Pakistan’, Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, 6(4). 10.26710/jbsee.v6i4.1485 HEC Recognized (Y Category).

8. ‘Do ownership and board characteristics enhance firm performance? A corporate governance perspective’ (Sadia Murtaza, Asmara Habib & Areeba Khan) Journal of Public Affairs, https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2515. HEC Recognized (X Category).

9. ‘Are single trigger contingent capital certificates an effective tool to manage risk?’ (Ahmed Fawad & Areeba Khan) South Asian Journal of Management Sciences, 2020. Vol 14 (2). 10.21621/sajms.2021151.01 (HEC recognized Y category)

10. ‘The Impact of Financial Reporting Quality on Investment Efficiency in Non-Financial Listed Firms of Pakistan’ (Javed Iqbal & Areeba Khan) Paradigms, Volume 14 (1) 2020. Print ISSN 1996-2800, Online ISSN 2410-0854 (HEC recognized Y category)

11. ‘Voluntary Tax Compliance and the Slippery Slope Framework’ (Sohail Saeed, Zulaiha Zubair & Areeba Khan) Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies, Volume 6: Issue 2 June 2020 https://doi.org/10.26710/jafee.v6i2.1253 (HEC recognized Y category)

12. ‘Professional Development as a Determinant of Self-efficacy of TVET Teachers, under the Mediating & Moderating Effect of Technology Training and Work Culture’ (Areeba Khan, Sulaman Hafeez Siddiqui & Muhammad Imran Abbasi) Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 40, No.2 (2020), pp. 745-757. ISSN (print): 2074-2061 (HEC recognized Y category)

13. ‘Human Development, Political Stability and Economic Growth: The way forward’, (Areeba Khan, Sulaman Hafeez Siddiqui, Shahid Hussain Bukhari & Syed Muhammad Hashim Iqbal) Review of Economics and Development Studies, Vol. 6 (2) 2020, 451-461 ISSN (print): 2519-9692 ISSN (online): 2519-9706 (HEC recognized Y category)

14. ‘Financial & Operating Working Capital: Unraveling Obscured Portion of Balance Sheet’ (Kashif Saeed & Areeba Khan) Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, Volume 6: Issue 2 June 2020. https://doi.org/10.26710/jbsee.v6i2.1168 (HEC recognized Y category)

15. ‘CAPM Based Quantification of Bankruptcy Risk; A Heuristic Approach’ (Areeba Khan, Sulaman Hafeez Siddiqui, Sohail Saeed & Muhammad Fahad Khan) Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies, Volume 6: Issue 2 June 2020 PP 343-356 https://doi.org/10.26710/jafee.v6i2.1155 (HEC recognized Y category)

16. ‘A Tale of the Ticker; Stock Market Capacity Building Hegemony and Temporal Performance in the Emerging Economies’ (Areeba Khan, Imran Sharif Chudhary, Sohail Saeed & Muhammad Kamran Shahid) Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies, Volume 6: Issue 1 March 2020. https://doi.org/10.26710/jafee.v6i1.1060 (HEC recognized Y category)

17. ‘Individually Perceived Stress as a Mediator between High Accomplishment Work Practices and Firm Performance’, (Areeba Khan, Sulaman Hafeez Siddiqui, Sohail Saeed, & Asmara Habib) Review of Economics and Development Studies, Vol. 6 (1) 2020, 179-189 ISSN (print): 2519-9692 ISSN (online): 2519-9706 https://doi.org/10.47067/reads.v6i1.196 (HEC recognized Y category)

18. ‘Credit Risk in Asset Based Sukuk’ (Areeba Khan, Sohail Saeed, Zulaiha Zubair & Iffat Hussain) Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, Volume 6: No. 1, March 2020. https://doi.org/10.26710/jbsee.v6i1.1043 (HEC recognized Y category)

19. ‘The impact of transparency and disclosure on stock market capitalization through the dividend yield eidolon’ (Areeba Khan, Sulaman Hafeez & Aysha Fayyaz) International Journal of Management Research and Emerging Sciences, Vol 10, No 1, 2020 March, PP. 01-10. E-ISSN: 2313-7738, ISSN: 2223-5604 (HEC recognized Y category)

20. ‘Political Stability and the Resolve to Save: The Case of Pakistan’ (Areeba Khan, Fatima Farooq, Sohail Saeed & Owais Shafique) Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, Vol. 5, No 2, December 2019. DOI 10.26710/jbsee.v5i2.922 (HEC recognized Y category)

21. ‘Impact of Macro-Economic Factors on Credit Risk. The Moderating Effect of Market Concentration: An Evidence from Pakistan’ (Akbar Ali & Areeba Khan) Paradigms, Vol. 13 (2) 2019 Page 170-176 Print ISSN 1996-2800, Online ISSN 2410-0854 10.24312/19107130222 (HEC recognized Y category)

22. ‘Islamic Vs. Conventional Commercial Banking: The Resilience Avant-Garde’ (Areeba Khan, Imran Sharif Chaudhry & Sohail Saeed) Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies, Volume 5: Issue 2 December 2019. https://doi.org/10.26710/jafee.v5i2.921 (HEC recognized Y category)

23. ‘Impact of Microfinance on Social Mobility and Women Empowerment: The Case of South Punjab’(Areeba Khan, Sulaman Hafeez Siddiqui, Sohail Saeed & Ali Azam) Review of Economics and Development Studies, Volume 5: No. 4, 2019. https://doi.org/10.26710/reads.v5i4.892 (HEC recognized Y category)

24. ‘Islamic Banking and Macroeconomic Growth Nexus: Facts or Feint’ (Areeba Khan, Imran Sharif Chaudhry & Ali Azam) Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 39, No. 4 (2019), pp. 1335-1347. ISSN (print): 2074-2061 (HEC recognized Y category)

25. ‘Development of an intergenerational wealth mobility framework for Pakistan’ (Areeba Khan, Sohail Saeed, Muhammad Fahad Khan & Quratul Ain) Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, Volume 4: Issue 1June 2018. ISSN: 2519-089X (E): 2519-0326 (HEC recognized Y category)

DOUBLE PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS AND CONFERENCES

1. ‘Credit Risk Oracle: The Bifocal Approach’ (Areeba Khan, Erum Fayyaz, Zulaiha Zubair & Iffat Hussain) Sustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies, Volume 1: No. 1, June 2019. https://doi.org/10.26710/sbsee.v1i1.999

2. ‘Islamic Microfinance as a Public Good in the Competitive Economy: Issues and Challenges’ (Areeba Khan & Junaina Muhammad) MIC 2018. ISBN/978-961-7023-92-3/234.pdf

3. ‘Neoteric Performance Challenges for Islamic Banks: An Elucidation’ (Areeba Khan & Junaina Muhammad) Journal of Modern Accounting and Auditing, Vol. 12, No. 12, December 2016 PP 612-620.

4. ‘Financial Resilience: A comparative study of Islamic and Conventional Banking’ (Areeba Khan & Junaina Muhammad) Global Journal of Business and Social Science Review, Vol. 4(1), October - December 2015: 370-379.