Dr. Muhammad Ismail is the founder and principal consultant at QDA Specialist, Pakistan. QDA Specialist is the third best consulting agency across the globe in providing qualitative research and data analysis related services. In addition, academically, Dr. Ismail is attached with Iqra National University Peshawar (Pakistan) as an Assistant Professor in finance and qualitative research. He received his PhD degree from IMSciences (Pakistan) and Griffith Business School (Australia) under HEC Pakistan's split degree program. In the region, Dr. Ismail is the only certified professional trainer in computer assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) packages, bibliometric analysis, biblioshiny, data visualization, and references and citations management. In addition, he is a certified MAXQDA professional trainer, Quirkos certified trainer, certified ATLAS.ti professional trainer, certified trainer with QDA Miner, certified trainer with HyperRESEARCH, and Mendeley advisor in the region. While working in the field, Dr. Ismail worked with Afghan Commissionerate for Afghan Refugees (Pakistan), UASAID (Pakistan), CPPR (Pakistan), Election Commission (Pakistan), Glow Consulting (Pakistan), Riphah International University (Islamabad), Marymount University (USA), and Istanbul Sabahattin University (Turkey). Methodologically, he is keenly interested in interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA), qualitative content analysis, thematic, sentiment and semiotic analysis, constant comparative analysis, thematic analysis, disclosure analysis, and index development.

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Dr. Shafiullah Jan associated with QDA Specialist as an independent consultant and trainer in discourse analysis. Currently, he is an associate professor of Islamic banking and finance and research chair at Center for Excellence in Islamic Finance, Institute of Management Sciences Peshawar Pakistan. Dr. Jan obtained his doctorate from Durham University and Master from the University of Glasgow, UK. Dr. Jan is famous for his expertise in analyzing qualitative data using ATLAS.ti, MAXQDA, and NVivo.

Mr. Abdul Basit is the independent consultant and trainer at QDA Specialist. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD in Islamic Business and Finance from the Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan. Mr. Basit is the expert of ethnography, thematic analysis, and content analysis using ATLAS.ti and Quirkos. He trained hundred of individuals and organizations in qualitative data analysis using CAQDAS with special focus on the applications of ATLAS.ti and Quirkos.

Mr. Mansoor Khan is the independent consultant and trainer at QDA Specialist. Mr. Mansoor is the expert of grounded theory, narrative research, and case study research designs. He published his research work in different international methodological journals. Currently, he is the doctoral candidate at the Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan. Mr. Mansoor hold very rich expertise in ATLAS.ti and in Dedoose.