Dr. Asad Zaman completed his Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford University over a three-year period from 1974 to 1977, concurrently earning a Masters in Statistics. The Ph.D. training at that time led him toward a materialistic outlook, placing emphasis on valuing careers and professions over social relations—an awareness that only became apparent much later. Subsequently, he pursued a post-Doctoral year at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), located at the Universite Catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, from 1977 to 1978. During his tenure at U.Penn., an invitation to serve as a Visiting Professor at the California Institute of Technology came his way. Later, Hafeez Pasha extended an offer for the position of National Visiting Professor at the Applied Economics Research Center in Karachi, where he spent an additional year. Following a six-year tenure at U.Penn. from 1978 to 1984, he received an offer, courtesy of Phoebus Dhrymes, from Columbia University, resulting in his promotion to Associate Professor. He subsequently moved to Bilkent, where he taught at the economics department from 1993 to 1999. In 1999, he relocated to Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). After approximately three years at LUMS, he accepted an offer to head the International Institute of Islamic Economics (IIIE) from the International Islamic University in 2002, providing him with the time and opportunity to contemplate a genuine Islamic approach to Economics and Econometrics.