Dr. Muhammad Shahbaz is Full Professor in Beijing Institute of Technology, and In-charge of Chair at Energy and Sustainable Development (ESD), Montpellier Business School, France. Before joining Montpellier Business School in 2016, he was Principal Research Officer at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. He received his PhD in Economics from National College of Business Administration and Economics, Lahore, Pakistan. Dr Muhammad Shahbaz currently collaborates with more than 70 researchers all around the world.

His research interests are development economics, energy economics, environmental and tourism economics etc. He has published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed international journals. He is among world's top 31 authors in Economics category as compiled by IDEAS, and among Pakistan's top 1 author in Economics category in Pakistan as compiled by IDEAS and among top-5 active researchers in developing countries declared by David Mckenzie (Chief Economists), World Bank. Dr. Muhammad Shahbaz has published papers in Energy Policy (H-index 123), Journal of Banking & Finance (H-index 102), Energy Economics (H-index 85), Economic Modelling (H-index 36), Applied Economics (H-index 55) etc…

His teaching interests are Micro economics; Macro economis; Applied economics; Econometrics; Business economics.