Wajid Ali

Dr. Wajid Ali is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Statistical Sciences, focusing on regional economic development, cohesion policy, economic growth, institutional quality, and inequality. He recently completed his PhD in Economics at the University of Perugia, Italy, where he developed expertise in using nighttime lights data to measure socioeconomic indicators and analyze them at a regional level in the Global South. Previously, Wajid worked as a Research Associate at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), an Islamabad-based policy think tank, for three and a half years. His research interests include methodological innovations in measuring socioeconomic indicators from nighttime lights data and exploring their relationships with macroeconomic variables for policy analysis.