Farah Said is the Director of the Mahbub ul Haq Research Centre (MHRC) and an Assistant Professor (tenure track) at the Department of Economics, Lahore University of Management Sciences. She is also an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS) and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP). Previously, she was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Economics and Business (CREB), an Assistant Professor at the Lahore School of Economics, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Göttingen.