Asghar Qadir is a mathematician, physicist and economist who did his PhD in Twistor Theory under Roger Penrose (NL) in 1971. He works in Relativity, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Lie Analysis and Special Functions and was Professor of Mathematics at Quaid-i-Azam University and then Physics at the National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad. He is a Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences and was a Senior Fellow of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics and Associate Member of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics. He is also a Distinguished National Professor of the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.