About Me

Academia

Academic

Prof. Dr. Huma Baqai is the Rector of Millennium Institute of Technology and Entrepreneurship, Karachi. She has previously served as an Associate Professor of Social Sciences & Liberal Arts, and was also former Associate Dean, Faculty of Business Administration, at IBA Karachi. She has been working with both national and international media as an international relations expert and political analyst since 1999.

She is a scholar, reviewer, author, and co-editor of two books titled Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations: Pitfalls and Way Forward in 2021 and Making Sense of Post COVID-19 Politics in 2020. She has authored twenty-nine national and international research articles published in renowned journals. She is also a content developer and a certified Corporate Trainer.

She has been associated with the electronic media for twenty-plus years and has discussed domestic, global, and social issues in over one thousand programs. She has participated in over two hundred national and international Webinars and Conferences. She also has a print media presence. As a columnist, she has contributed 100+ articles to renowned magazines and newspapers that include:

Magazines: Hilal ISPR Magazine, Narratives, The Vision, Pakistan Politico, Newsline Magazine, Rehbar Magazine, Geo News, and South Asia Magazine.

Newspapers: Pakistan Observer, The Express Tribune, Business Recorder, and Global Village Space.

In addition, Dr. Baqai is the Vice Chairperson of Karachi Council for Foreign Relations (KCFR) and serves on several advisory & governance boards.

Training

Corporate Trainer

Dr Huma Naz Siddiqui Baqai is a content developer, organizer and a certified Corporate Trainer on Liberalism and Politics. She has spent more than a decade facilitating clients and their employees to execute on strategy, vision, and values. She teaches leaders and organizations simple, practical and pragmatic strategies that help them to engage and empower their teams in a way that inspires them to challenge the limits.

She conducts trainings on Communication and Negotiation Skills at Center for Executive Education, IBA Karachi since 2008 to date. She has been trained in Bentley University, USA, Gummers Bach Institute of Leadership, Germany, and Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Islamabad.

Media

Media

Huma Naz Siddiqui Baqai is an acclaimed Pakistani Political and Foreign Policy analyst as well as an anchorperson. She offers an insightful and unprejudiced look at today’s current political backdrop for Radio Pakistan, Voice of America and Voice of Germany. She is Associated with the electronic media for more than 20 years and has discussed domestic and global shifts in more than thousands programs.

She is also an expert moderator and speaker who seamlessly directs conversation with high level personalities and has conducted more than two hundred national and international webinars and Conferences.

Board Memberships

Board Memberships

Member Search Committee, Women University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Bagh
Member Editorial Board Business Review, IBA
Member Board of Advanced Studies (BASR) IBA
Member Pakistan-Afghanistan Track 1.5/ II Talks
Member Board of Studies, Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering & Information Technology
Member Review Board Journal of Social Sciences & Interdisciplinary Research, NED
Member Board of Directors Women Media Center, Karachi
Member Expert Evaluation Committee for Post-Doctoral Fellowship Programme, Sindh HEC
Member Committee Commercialization of Startups Projects 2024, Sindh HEC
Joint Secretary Sindh Chapter of the Association of Private Sector Universities of Pakistan (APSUP)
Member Karachi Water & Sewerage Board (KWSB)
Member Senate of the Federal Urdu University (FUUAST)
Member for Board of Governors (BoGs) of Eman Institute of Management & Science Karachi on behalf of Sindh Higher Education Commission, Government of Sindh, Karachi.
Member Senate of the National Defence University
Member Advisory Committee on Status of Women, Government of Sindh
Senior Vice Chair, Karachi Council for Foreign Relations
Member Advisory Board, Center for International Strategic Studies Sindh (CISSS)
Member Advisory Board for LUMS Law Journal
Member of Strategic Advisory Panel for The Bandaranaike Academy for Leadership & Public Police

My Work

Trainings

How to Train the Trainer

April 29, 2023

Workshop on Negotiation & Conflict Resolution Skills

November 15, 2022

Two - Days Vice Chancellors & Pro Vice Chancellors Capacity Building Workshop

Articles

Art and Higher Education in Pakistan, by Dr. Huma Baqai and Maria Hassan Siddiqui, published in Journal of Education and Social Sciences, Vol. 8(1): 104-120, 2020, ISSN: 2414-8091 (Print), ISSN: 2410-5767
Twenty-First Century Regionalism: Impact on South Asia, by Dr. Huma Baqai and Sabiha Mehreen, accepted for publication in Pakistan Perspectives for Spring 2021 issue
Migration and its Impact on Political Scenario: The Case of Karachi, by Dr. Mehtab Karim and Dr. Huma Baqai, accepted for publication in Pakistan Journal of International Affairs, for Fall 2020 issue, due in November 2020
Co-Editor and Contributor to “Making Sense of Post COVID-19 Politics”, published by Ms. Ameena Saiyid, CEO Lightstone Publishers, August 2020, ISBN no. 9789697160945
Pakistan in Transition Towards a Substantive Democracy published in Vol. 2 No. 1, March 2014
Doctoral work “Non-Traditional Sources of Conflict in South Asia” Published in the form of book by VDM Publishing House 978-3-639-35574-1
Extremism and Fundamentalism: Linkages to Terrorism Pakistan’s perspective is published in Vol. 1 No. 6 June 2011 in International Journal of Humanities and Social Science.
Secularism: An Option for Pakistan published in Vol. 2 No. 3 [Special Issue – January 2011] in International Journal of Business and Social Science.