Professor of Sociology and Head of Department within the faculty of Management and Economics at Klagenfurt University, Austria. Previously, he hold appointments in Italy, Germany, Sweden, and Finland. He is specialized on sociology, business and society, and the interfaces with economics and business administration. Specific research interests include labour market research and self-employment, social stratification and inequality, studies of interdisciplinary thought, history of economic thought, entrepreneurship. He has published numerous books, the latest are Consumption and Lifestyles (with F. Naz, Palgrave Publishers 2018), and Unheard Voices. Women, Work and Political Economy of Global Production (with F. Naz, London: Palgrave MacMillan Publishers 2020).

Fateh Muhammad Burfat earned his B.A (Hons) , (Sociology, 1981) , M.A (Sociology, 1982) and Ph.D  (Sociology 1998) degrees at University of Karachi. He has specialized in Sociology, Social Anthropology and Criminology. He is working as Full Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Karachi, from January,2001, and is Director Student’s Guidance Counseling, Placement & Overseas Examinations Bureau, University of Karachi. He is currently teaching Sociology of Economic Development, Sociology of Education and Violence, Terrorism and It’s Control. He has published numerous research articles on Juvenile Delinquency, Drug Abuse, Street Children, Poverty, Social Change, Gender, Violence and Terrorism in International and National Research Journals.
His one book contribution was published in the book “Delinquency and Juvenile Justice Systems in the Non-Western World” edited by well-known Criminologist Paul C.Friday and published by Criminal Justice Press, Monsey, New York, USA. He successfully supervised 20 Ph.D Thesis and 08 M.Phil/M.S Thesis. Currently, he is the president of Pakistan  Sociological Association and Vice-President of South Asian Sociological Society. He is a member of the Population Association of Pakistan, the International Union of Social Scientists for Population, the American Sociological Association and the American Society of Criminology. He is also a member of An Advisory Committee on Curriculum and Textbooks Reform, and member Panel for Scrutiny of Feasibility Reports for Institutions/Universities ,Govt.of Sindh , Education& Literacy Department.

 Currently, he is the Principal Investigator in the project “Third Party Validation of Need-Based Scholarship” for Higher Education Commission/World Bank from August 2013. He was the Project Director (Sindh Chapter) on a UNESCO’s project “Globalization and the International Drug Problem in Central Asia and Pakistan” MOST. He was the Principal Investigator on the projects of “Social Audit of Local Governance and Delivery of Public Services” UNDP, Pakistan (Sindh Chapter) in 2010 and 2012.
He was the core member of an International team on “Cultural Strategies For Drug Abuse Intervention Programs in Asian Settings” from 1992 to 2001, sponsored by the Commission of European Communities. Dr.Burfat has organized several International and National Conferences, Seminars and Workshops on different Sociological and  Criminological Issues of Pakistan. Also participated in International workshops/seminar and conferences.