Javed Ahmad Khan is currently an Associate Professor at the Centre of West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, a Central University at New Delhi and is teaching the Contemporary Arab Economies there. Heholds PhD in West Asian Studies (Economics) from Aligarh Muslim University, India.

Among his publications include; Iraq Reconstruction: The Arab's Response to an Imperial Design (2008),  India's Energy Security and the Arabian Gulf: Oil and Gas Market in Decontrolled Regimes (2005),   Islamic banking in India : scope & challenges (Editor, 2003),  India's search for natural Gas in the Persian Gulf (2004) Social sciences in Islamic perspectives : a bibliography of contemporary literature, 1975-2000 (Compiled. 2001),  India and West Asia : emerging markets in the liberalisation era (1999) and   Islamic economics and finance : a bibliography 1995). He also edited a bio-monthly   Islamic Economic Bulletin (1991-2003).

His field of specialisation includes Arab Economies, Indo-Arab Economic relations and Islamic Economics & Finance.
He knows Urdu, English,  Arabic, Persian and Hindi, languages.