Summary / Notes

Dr Sadia Hanif is an Assistant Professor Project Management at the Faculty of Management Sciences, Riphah International University, Islamabad Pakistan. She is also serving as PMI Lahore Chapter Student Club Convener at Riphah AL-Mizan campus, Rawalpindi. She has completed her PhD from Foundation University, Pakistan in 2021, and MS in Project Management from COMSATS University, Pakistan in 2012. Afterwards, had successfully won the IPFP Fellowship from Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan. She has earned certificates of Google Project Management, University Teaching and Responsible Research Supervision including many others related to her field from the online platform of Coursera. The key research interests of Dr Sadia Hanif are Project Management, healthcare management, disaster management and business management. She has contributed to the theory of Project Management through her research in Pakistan Project Management. She has introduced beneficiary satisfaction as a key success factor in Project Management. She has proposed a framework ‘Iceberg of Expertise-based Leadership’, considering the leadership constraints in project management of Pakistan. The project management of developing countries is a complex phenomenon. Dr Sadia Hanif is constantly investigating the underlying causes of project constraints in developing countries to propose solutions.