Jamshed has previously worked as a Research Associate with CERP and IDEAS on Political Economy and Service Delivery. He also worked as a Research Assistant at CDPR on a policy brief on Teachers and administrative cadre incentives in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Jamshed Ahmed hails from South Waziristan and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Forman Christian College and a Master’s degree in Economics from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).