User:Saranjambaig

Dr. Saranjam Baig is a development and political economist. As a freelance consultant, he has been working with renowned institutions like BSDR, AKF-Geneva, AKRSP etc. He teaches economics and public policy at Karakoram International University, Gilgit Pakistan. Dr. Baig has been teaching comparative politics at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat as a visiting academic. He also taught economics, and public policy as an adjunct lecturer at the University of La Verne, California for two years. Dr. Baig is the founding director of the Center for Research on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and heads a team of research fellows and associates. He holds a PhD in Economics and Politics from Claremont Graduate University in Greater Los Angeles. He also holds an MA degree in Economics from Claremont Graduate University in the US and an MS degree in Development Studies with Distinction from the University of Glasgow, Scotland UK. Dr. Baig also writes editorial columns, although intermittently, for Daily Dawn, a leading English newspaper in Pakistan.

Dr. Baig, along with his two friends, founded the first graduate level commerce college in Gilgit, Gilgit College of Commerce and Economics (GCCE) in the year 2004 when he was just 23 years old. It's now a brandname in commerce education in Gilgit-Baltistan.He is a Fulbright alumna, an academic, social entrepreneur, influencer, and a social activist.

Saranjam Beyg is married to Salma Saranjam, an architect and urban designer, who went to Georgia Institute of Technology (GeorgiaTech) for her graduate studies. Both are parents to two daughters; Manha and Nusaybah.