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College / Department

School of Business Administration

Department of Marketing and Information Systems

Teaching areas

Operations Management, Decision Science, Supply Chain Management

Research areas

Enterprise Risk Management, Decision-making under Risk and Uncertainty, Disaster Risk Management, Supply Chain Risk Management, Project Risk Management

Education

FSA, Fellowship In Corporate Finance And Enterprise Risk Management, Society of Actuaries, United States, 2019

CERA, Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst, Society of Actuaries, United States, 2018

PhD, Management Science, University of Strathclyde Business School, United Kingdom, 2017

MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan, 2013

BE, Aerospace Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, 2003

Professional experience

Assistant Professor, American University of Sharjah, 2019 - Present

Assistant Professor, Business Management, State University of New York (Korea), South Korea, 2018 - 2019

Assistant Professor, Military Technological College, Oman, 2016 - 2018

Squadron Leader, Pakistan Air Force, 2003 - 2013

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2287

Dr. Abroon Qazi

Assistant Professor

PhD, University of Strathclyde Business School, United Kingdom

Abroon is a qualified actuary (Fellow Society of Actuaries), a Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst, a Chartered Engineer, and a Project Management Professional certification holder. He has worked as an operations manager in the aviation industry for ten years. He has taught courses on operations management and decision sciences at institutions such as the University of Strathclyde Business School and the State University of New York, Korea. His research interests include operations management and risk management with an emphasis on modeling and managing enterprise-wide risks.

Publications

Abroon Qazi, Mecit Can Emre Simsekler And Steven Formaneck. Supply chain risk network value at risk assessment using Bayesian belief networks and Monte Carlo simulation, Annals Of Operations Research, 10 March 2022

Abroon Qazi And Mecit Can Emre Simsekler. Nexus between drivers of COVID-19 and country risks, Socio-economic Planning Sciences, 23 February 2022

Abroon Qazi. Adoption of a probabilistic network model investigating country risk drivers that influence logistics performance indicators, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 16 February 2022

Abroon Qazi And Mecit Can Emre Simsekler. Prioritizing interdependent drivers of financial, economic, and political risks using a data-driven probabilistic approach, Risk Management, 1 February 2022

Abroon Qazi, Mecit Can Emre Simsekler And Barbara Gaudenzi. Prioritizing multidimensional interdependent factors influencing COVID-19 risk, Risk Analysis: An International Journal, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2022

Abroon Qazi, Mecit Can Emre Simsekler And Steven Formaneck. Impact assessment of country risk on logistics performance using a Bayesian Belief Network model, Kybernetes, 3 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2022

Abroon Qazi, Mecit Can Emre Simsekler And Muhammad Akram. Efficacy of early warning systems in assessing country-level risk exposure to COVID-19, Geomatics, Natural Hazards And Risk, 16 August 2021

Abroon Qazi And M. C. Emre Simsekler. Quality assessment of enterprise risk management programs, Journal Of Risk Research, 19 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2021

Abroon Qazi And M. C. Emre Simsekler. Worst expected best method for assessment of probabilistic network expected value at risk: Application in supply chain risk management, International Journal Of Quality & Reliability Management, 11 March 2021

Abroon Qazi, Abdulrahim Shamayleh, Sameh El-sayegh And Steven Formaneck. Prioritizing Risks in Sustainable Construction Projects Using a Risk Matrix-Based Monte Carlo Simulation Approach, Sustainable Cities And Society, February 2021

Abdelkader Daghfous, Abroon Qazi And Sajid Khan. Incorporating the risk of knowledge loss in supply chain risk management, International Journal Of Logistics Management

Abroon Qazi And M. C . Risk assessment of construction projects using Monte Carlo Simulation, International Journal Of Managing Projects In Business, 12 February 2021

Abroon Qazi, Abdelkader Daghfous And M. Sajid Khan. Impact of risk attitude on risk, opportunity, and performance assessment of construction projects, Project Management Journal, 27 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2021

M. C. Emre Simsekler, Clarence Rodrigues, Abroon Qazi, Samer Ellahham And Al Ozonoff. A comparative study of patient and staff safety evaluation using tree-based machine learning algorithms, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 23 December 2020

Abroon Qazi And M. C. Emre Simsekler. Assessment of Humanitarian Crises and Disaster Risk Exposure Using Data-Driven Bayesian Networks, International Journal Of Disaster Risk Reduction, 4 November 2020

M. C. Emre Simsekler And Abroon Qazi. Adoption of a Data-driven Bayesian Belief Network Investigating Organizational Factors that Influence Patient Safety, Risk Analysis: An International Journal, 18 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2020

Abroon Qazi And M. Sajid Khan. Exploring probabilistic network-based modeling of multidimensional factors associated with country risk, Risk Analysis: An International Journal, 23 September 2020

Barbara Gaudenzi And Abroon Qazi. Assessing project risks from a Supply Chain Quality Management (SCQM) perspective, International Journal Of Quality & Reliability Management, 27 August 2020

M. C. Emre Simsekler, Abroon Qazi, Mohammad Alalami, Samer Ellahham And Al Ozonoff. Evaluation of patient safety culture using a random forest algorithm, Reliability Engineering And System Safety, 14 August 2020

Irem Dikmen, Abroon Qazi, Huseyin Erol And M. Talat Birgonul. Meta-modelling of complexity-uncertainty-performance triad in projects, Engineering Management Journal, 9 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2020

Abroon Qazi, Irem Dikmen And M. Talat Birgonul. Prioritization of interdependent uncertainties in projects, International Journal Of Managing Projects In Business, 28 May 2020

Abroon Qazi, Irem Dikmen And M. Talat Birgonul. Mapping uncertainty for risk and opportunity assessment in projects, Engineering Management Journal, 7 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2019

Abroon Qazi And Irem Dikmen. From risk matrices to risk networks in construction projects, Transactions On Engineering Management, 8 May 2019

Abroon Qazi And Pervaiz Akhtar. Risk matrix driven supply chain risk management: Adapting risk matrix based tools to modelling interdependent risks and risk appetite, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 4 August 2018

Abid Khan, Muhammad Ashraf, Asim Shehzad, Abroon Qazi And Imran Hayat. Computational and experimental studies of horizontal tail flutter suppression, Proceedings Of The Institution Of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal Of Aerospace Engineering, 14 August 2017

Abroon Qazi, Alex Dickson, John Quigley And Barbara Gaudenzi. Supply chain risk network management: a Bayesian Belief Network and expected utility based approach for managing supply chain risks, International Journal Of Production Economics, 7 November 2017

Abroon Qazi, John Quigley, Alex Dickson, Sule Ekici And Barbara Gaudenzi. Detectability Based Prioritization of Interdependent Supply Chain Risks, 2016

Abroon Qazi, John Quigley, Alex Dickson And Sule Ekici. Exploring dependency based probabilistic supply chain risk measures for prioritising interdependent risks and strategies, European Journal Of Operational Research, 20 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016

Abroon Qazi, John Quigley, Alex Dickson And Konstantinos Kirytopoulos. Project complexity and risk management (ProCRiM): towards modelling project complexity driven risk paths in construction projects, International Journal Of Project Management, 2 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2016

Abroon Qazi, John Quigley, Alex Dickson And Barbara Gaudenzi. A new modelling approach of evaluating preventive and reactive strategies for mitigating supply chain risks, Computational Logistics (iccl 2015), 2015

Abroon Qazi, John Quigley And Alex Dickson. A novel application of system survival signature in supply chain risk management, 2015 International Conference On Industrial Engineering And Operations Management (ieom), 2015

Abroon Qazi, John Quigley, Alex Dickson, Barbara Gaudenzi And Sule Ekici. Cost and benefit analysis of supplier risk mitigation in an aerospace supply chain, 2015

Abroon Qazi, John Quigley, Alex Dickson, Barbara Gaudenzi And Sule Ekici. Evaluation of control strategies for managing supply chain risks using Bayesian Belief Networks, 2015

Abroon Qazi, John Quigley, Alex Dickson And Konstantinos Kirytopoulos. Modelling project complexity driven risk paths in new product development, 2015

Abroon Qazi, John Quigley And Alex Dickson. Supply chain risk management: systematic literature review and a conceptual framework for capturing interdependencies between risks, 2015 International Conference On Industrial Engineering And Operations Management (ieom), 2015

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, Faculty Seed Grant, American University of Sharjah, August 2019

Awards and Honors

Eschenbach Award for the Best EMJ Paper (published in 2020), American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM), 2021

Teaching Excellence Award, American University of Sharjah, 2021

SBA Researcher of the Year Award, American University of Sharjah, 2021

Fellowship for Visiting Scholars, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2018

Faculty Appreciation Award, State University of New York, Korea, 2018

Teaching Excellence Award, University of Strathclyde Business School, 2016

Best Student Paper Award, Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Society, 2015

Endeavour Research Fellowship, Australian Government, 2015

Mac Robertson Travel Scholarship, University of Glasgow, 2015

Sword of Honor, Pakistan Air Force Academy, 2003