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Professor Niaz Asadullah is an Associate Editor of several WoS journals: Singapore Economic Review (World Scientific), Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (Taylor & Francis),  PLOS One,  International Journal of Educational Development  (Elsevier) & Asia Pacific Education Review (Springer) and Co-Editor of the Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (Springer Nature). He is also on the editorial advisory board of Journal of Poverty and Public Policy (Willey), Journal of Public Affairs (Willey), COMPARE: A Journal of Comparative and International Education (Taylor & Francis), Journal of Demography (Thailand) and  Malaysian Journal of Economics.

Professor Asadullah received his Doctorate degree in Economics from Oxford University in 2005. Before coming to Malaysia, he taught economics at Reading University, UK, for seven years. He also held visiting positions at Harvard, Oxford, Manchester, Kent, Dhaka, BRAC, Chulalongkorn and Mindanao State Universities. At the University of Malaya, he additionally served as the Deputy Director of the Centre for Poverty and Development Studies (CPDS) from 2014-2016. Other active affiliations include: Permanent member of the National Agricultural Advisory Council (MPPN), Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MAFI), Government of Malaysia; Visiting Professorial Fellow (University of Manchester); Fellow of the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Peer Review College; Research Fellow of the IZA Institute of Labor Economics; Global Labor Organization (GLO) Lead for Malaysia & South-East Asia; Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA); Co-founder of the Initiative on Education, Gender and Growth in Asia.

His past research has focused on poverty, education, labor market, skills formation and gender issues with a focus on South/East Asia and Islamic countries. Current research on COVID19 addresses three themes: (i) impact on the super rich and its implication for wealth inequality; (ii) shift to home schooling & the implications for learning loss, educational & happiness inequality (mental well-being) (iii) the role of digital technology in ensuring learning continuity. (i) & (ii) are supported by "Home Learning & Schooling in Malaysia Survey" (HLSMS) 2021, an independent evaluation of the government's flagship PdPR scheme (which has received extensive media coverage - the Star (1 2 3) & Astro TV (1 2)). His work has been supported by the Social Security Research Centre (SSRC) and HIR schemes of the University of Malaya as well as international grants such as the Australian Development Research Award Scheme, Leverhulme Trust (UK), International Growth Centre (IGC), the DFID (UK), Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), South Asian Network of Economic Research Institutes, Global Education Commission, and the World Bank. He has also consulted for Asian Productivity Organization (APO), BRAC, Oxford Policy Management, BAPPENAS (Government of Indonesia), UN-ESCAP, UNESCO, the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO).

He has published in economics journals (Australian Economic Review, Asian Development Review, Bulletin of Economic Research, Cambridge Journal of Economics, China Economic Review, Economica, Economics of Education Review, Education Economics, Feminist Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Economic Studies, Journal of Policy Modelling, Review of the Economics of Household, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics) as well as development studies journals (Development Policy Review, European Journal of Development Research, Journal of Development Studies,  Journal of Human Development, Oxford Development Studies, and World Development) and other multidisciplinary journals ( Economic and Political Weekly, Journal of Biosocial Sciences, Comparative Education Review, Food Policy, Global Food Security, Social Indicators Research, Third World Quarterly, International Journal of Manpower, International Journal of Educational Development and PLoS One).

In addition to 50+ WoS journal papers, Prof Asadullah has published 200+ media articles (opinion pieces) in newspapers/magazines including the Project Syndicate, the Conversation, World Economic Forum, the Diplomat, the East Asia Forum,  D+C Development & Cooperation,  and World Education Forum (UNESCO). He has appeared on interviews with Al-jazeera, ABC Australia, Astro Awani TV (Malaysia), BBC World Service, Business FM Malaysia, the Economist, the Star (Malaysia),  the Edge Financial Daily & Daily Sabah (Turkey). He has delivered 100+ lectures/keynotes at national/international seminars/symposiums/conferences and has edited/reviewed 500+ research manuscripts for 100+ peer-reviewed ISI/WoS journals .