Sikandar Hayat is Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences at the Forman Christian College University, Lahore. He joined the university in 2013. In 2014-17, he was Chair of the Department of History and Pakistan Studies. He has published extensively on Pakistan Movement, and especially its political leadership. His books include Aspects of the Pakistan Movement (NIHCR, 1991, 1998, 2016): The Charismatic Leader Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the Creation of Pakistan (OUP, 2008, 2014/2018); and Leadership Odyssey: Muslim Separatism and the Achievement of the Separate State of Pakistan (OUP, 2021). Currently, he is working on a biographical study, JINNAH, for Routledge Historical Biographies Series (UK).