Abrar Chaudhury

Biography

Dr. Abrar Chaudhury holds a research faculty post at Oxford Said Business School. He is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and affiliated with Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute and Green Templeton College. Abrar is a global professional with over 20 years’ experience in technology, consulting and research contexts across multiple continents and sectors.

Abrar’s research interests span challenges at the intersection of environmental management, sustainable development and organisation theory and strategy. He is currently involved in a pioneering Oxford collaboration with EY Global, to understand how and why C-Suite from global MNCs are focused on corporate ‘purpose’ in a turbulent global economy. The findings contribute to a global research initiative on corporate transformation to meet the challenges of the early 21st century.

Abrar has recently started a 3-year British Academy Fellowship investigating the ways in which dedicated climate funding, such as the Green Climate Fund, and emerging technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence and distributed ledgers, shape climate action in Pakistan and emerging economies.

He is an experienced teacher, contributing to Oxford programmes on the MBA/EMBA including specialty electives. He works with executives in a variety of contexts, and been involved in number of public sector and private workshops around governance and environment in emerging economies. He publishes widely in leading academic journals and presents at numerous global conferences.

Abrar holds a award-winning PhD in Environmental Management, and MBA and an MSc in Environmental Management (Distinction) from Oxford and is a Fellow Chartered Accountant. His doctoral research explored organisation and implementation of climate adaptation policy in emerging economies, based on extensive fieldwork in Ghana, Nepal, and Pakistan. Prior to Oxford, Abrar was a partner in a leading accounting firm in Pakistan.