Prof. Mohammad Azher is a distinguished scholar in Energy Economics, Finance, and Trade Cooperation in India-West Asia Relations, currently serving as the Dean of the Faculty of International Studies at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India. He is Chairperson of the Department of West Asian and North African Studies, as well as the Departments of Foreign Languages and South African and Brazilian Studies at AMU.

Prior to joining A.M.U., Muhammad Azhar worked as a Reader at the Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Before that, he was a Research Associate at the Gulf Studies Programme, Centre of West Asian and African Studies, School of International Studies, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi. Before that, he also worked as a Consultant at the Indian Council of Research in International Economic Relations, New Delhi.

Muhammad Azhar obtained his M.A. (Economics), M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi. His areas of research & teaching interest include energy economics, finance, economic and trade cooperation and research and methodology. He has contributed research articles in various international and national journals like Arab Studies Quarterly (Washington), Middle Eastern Studies (Oxfordshire), Diaspora Studies (Oxfordshire), OPEC Energy Review (Oxford), OPEC Review (Oxford), OPEC Bulletin (Vienna), biis Journal (Dhaka), Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Villanova), Journal of Economics and International Relations (Hong Kong), International Studies (New Delhi), Journal of West Asian Studies (Aligarh) and Islam and Modern Age (New Delhi).