Dr Sikandar Hayat is Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, FC College University, Lahore. He has also served as Dean, National Institute of Public Policy at the National School of Public Policy, Lahore, and was faculty at the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, first at the Department of Pakistan Studies and then at the Department of History, for more than three decades, retiring as Meritorious Professor and Chair, Department of History.