Dr. Muhammad Khurshid is a Research and Development Consultant from Pakistan with over a decade of professional experience supporting evidence-based policy research and development initiatives across academia, NGOs and private sector entities. He holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences from the University of Peshawar, Pakistan. His research interest broadly covers the field of natural resource management while specifically he has focused on pastoral resources (pastoralism, livestock, rangelands, water and agriculture), and climate change adaptation by pastoralists in dryland ecosystems. Prior to his current role, he served as a full-time Assistant Professor at the University of Haripur, Pakistan and as a Research Fellow at Ankara University Turkey. He has recently been awarded a project on Afghan Pastoralists in Pakistan.