Dr. Aqib Mujtaba completed his Ph.D. in Economics from the school of Economics, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University Katra, Jammu and Kashmir, India. He is an awardee of the National Fellowship for Higher Education of ST Students and has worked as a senior research fellow of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA), Government of India (GoI). Dr. Mujtaba has qualified the university grant commission national eligibility test (UGC-NET) in economics. He completed his master's degree (M.A. Economics) from Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University Rajouri Jammu and Kashmir, India. Graduate from the University of Jammu. He is an active researcher in the area of energy and environmental economics and presented his research work in various national and international conferences and also participated in various Research Methodology workshops on data visualization and modeling with EViews, Stata, and R-Software. Dr. Mujtaba has basic knowledge of econometric Tools/Software like; Eviews, STATA, SPSS, and R-software. He has published his research work in reputed international journals indexed in; SCOPUS, WoS-Science Citation Index (SCI), Science citation index expanded (SCIE), ABDC and UGC-CARE listed journals. He is serving as a referee of several well-reputed International journals.