Prof. Ashfaq Ahmad Shah works as an Associate Professor of Social Policy and Development Studies, at China Agricultural University. He is a researcher with multidimensional professional experience, with over eight years of experience in emergency response management with expertise in monitoring and evaluation, disaster risk reduction, management, and conflict contexts in the continuum from emergency to
development in Pakistan. He studied for a Ph.D. degree at China Agriculture University, majoring in
Rural Development & Management from 2014 to 2018. After obtaining the Ph.D. degree, he entered the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST) from 2020–2021 and Hohai
University from 2022 to 2023 for Postdoctoral research. His areas of expertise are community-based
disaster risk reduction/management (CBDRM), risk perceptions, vulnerability and
resilience (V&R), public health in emergencies, disaster preparedness,
capacity building of the local disaster management institutions, climate change
adaptation, school-based disaster risk management (SBDRM), non-government and
humanitarian organizations, leadership and ethics in crisis and humanitarian
situations, humanitarian emergency operations (including assessments, planning
and implementation, and coordination), and also remains involved in
humanitarian assistance and emergency food security and livelihood programs
with multiple donors, such as ECHO, OFDA SIDA, DFID and Telethon.
