Mohammad Kamran

Mohammad Kamran Mumtaz is Assistant Professor, Chairman Innovation & Corporate Research Committee and Director, Center for Innovation in Learning & Ed-Transformation at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi. He is former Chairman Department of Management and Head ‘Center for Entrepreneurial Development Accelerator Program’ (CEDAP). He has also served as Chairman Technical Evaluation Committee (New Projects), member Academic Committee, member Academic Leadership Team and member Strategy & Structure Committee at IBA. Kamran also sits on the board of directors of several firms in Pakistan such as KoFHA, SZABIST and SCAP. His areas of expertise include operations, innovation and entrepreneurship. In his career spanning over the past twenty years he has worked with various organizations in senior management and consulting positions. He has worked with Schlumberger, Oman; Al-Tuwairqi Group, KSA; Kraft Foods (Philip Morris) and ConPrint, USA; DFID, UK; Service Sales Corporation, Tetra Pak and Engro Foods, Pakistan, to name a few. He has also been a Babson Fellow and has taught at Lahore University of Management Sciences as Adjunct Faculty.

His other engagements include working as a special consul with the Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Pakistan, Washington, DC and founding a distribution business in New York in 2005. He is also founder and former Vice President, Supply Chain Association of Pakistan (SCAP) and former President SCAP Lahore Chapter. He has been a keynote speaker at various forums.

He has presented in international conferences and has published at both local and international outlets. His papers have been accepted in reputed international conferences such as DSI and POMS. Recently one of his case studies won the best paper award in Operations Management at the AJMC Case Conference and an award at the Molson International Case Competition. Kamran likes developing new ventures and investing in them.

Since he started CEDAP in 2012, he has advised several start-ups and has helped them grow. He has also helped the industry with their new product development and growth initiatives. He carefully balances his time between entrepreneurial activities, research, consulting, teaching and training.

Kamran has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute (GIKI), Pakistan and a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Business from Texas A&M University, USA. His doctorate is from Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan. He holds the prestigious Innovation Leadership Certificate from MIT, USA and is a member of the MIT Innovation Leadership Community.