Iqbal U. Cheema
Pakistan Museum of Natural History
Islamabad, Pakistan

I.U. Cheema has been a principal member of the Yale and Harvard collaborative programs with the Geological Survey of Pakistan and the Pakistan Museum of Natural History since the 1970s.  Concentrating on small mammal fauna, he developed several fossil localities, including Dera Bugti, and earned his Ph.D. degree in 2003 from Punjab University at Lahore.