Dr. Usman W. Chohan

Advisor

Dr Usman Chohan

Dr. Usman W. Chohan

Professional Experience

Dr. Usman W. Chohan is an international economist and academic who was one of the founding Directors of CASS, now serving as Advisor to President CASS on Economic Affairs & National Development. He is among the Top 100 Authors across all subjects & disciplines (out of 1.2 million authors) on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), which is the largest open repository of knowledge in the world. At CASS, he has authored/edited eight books in the past five years,  all published with Routledge (see below). In the academic realm, his research has been cited widely, and Dr. Chohan has testified before various authorities based on his technical expertise. He has been published in prestigious journals such as Policy & Society, The International Journal of Public Administration, and Parliamentary Affairs.

Dr. Chohan has a PhD in economics from UNSW Australia, where his doctoral work led to the world’s first multidisciplinary synthesis of independent legislative fiscal institutions, and an MBA from McGill University (Canada), with coursework at MIT-Tsinghua. His previous practitioner experience includes working at the National Bank of Canada and the World Bank. Dr. Chohan has been a speaker at major national conferences such as GSTAR and the Margalla Dialogue. He is also the President of the International Association of Hyperpolyglots (HYPIA), the leading organization worldwide for hyperpolyglotism and whose membership consists of the speakers of six or more languages. He appears frequently on domestic and international televisionpodcasts, and lecture series in various languages. He is also trained in South Asian musicology and plays the sitar. In addition, Dr. Chohan has maintained an annual reading challenge of 100 books every year since 2011.

List of Books at CASS

  1. Public Value & Budgeting: International Perspectives
  2. Reimagining Public Managers: Delivering Public Value
  3. Public Value and the Digital Economy,
  4. Pandemics and Public Value Management,
  5. Activist Retail Investors and the Future of Financial Markets(co-edited)
  6. Public Value and the Post-Pandemic Society
  7. Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs): Multidisciplinary Perspectives(edited),

Forthcoming books

  1. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs): Innovation and Vulnerability in the Digital Economy (co-edited).
  2. Critical Polyglot Studies (co-authored)
  3. Public Governance on the Blockchain (co-edited)

Events

Publications

democracy

The Deluder

How important is the level of education to the health of society? How important is an educated electorate for a well-functioning polity? The intuitive answer is that the more educated and
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Pakistan

Lachak

The course of a nation’s life, it may come at a crossroads where difficult decisions must be made that exact weighty concessions from the status quo. Elites must, in such conditions, yield to the wider
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disconnect

Disconnect

In two key senses of the term, our nation is suffering from a profound disconnect. The first is in the practical sense, where an ever-extending period of deliberate internet disconnection
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US Dollars

R.I.P. U.S.D.

The hegemonic role of the US dollar in international trade and commerce is the result of massive upheaval during the early 20th century that culminated in
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Boomerang

Boomerang!

The manner in which the policies of the US central bank (Fed) have decimated the global economy over the past year is not just evident from
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The US Federal Reserve

The Blundering Fed

As countries in the developing world have begun to falter economically during the post-Covid era, their publics have begun to seethe with a rage directed at
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What Big Oil Knew-

What Big Oil Knew

The global climate crisis has been the subject of much popular attention and some policy concern. International summits have continued to raise the issue
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