Matching the Right People for the Right Job … Congratulation to Ahsan Iqbal for this great selection !
**Planning Commission hires staff from academia, corporate sector
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By The Newspaper’s Staff Reporter
Updated a day ago
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Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal. — File photo
**ISLAMABAD: **The Planning Commission made eight major inductions on Wednesday, including seven members and a chief economist.
The inductions were approved by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on the recommendation of Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal.
According to an official statement, the Planning Commission has **broken the tradition of appointing retired officials.
** “The new recruitments have been made by attracting talent from top academic and corporate institutions of the country in line with the new vision to transform the commission into a development think-tank.”
**** Nadeem Javed ***has been hired as chief economist, who holds a Ph.D in Economics from France and has an extensive experience in economic and finance sector.
Previously, he has worked as the Director of Karachi School of Business & Leadership (KSBL) and has taught macroeconomy and global economy at several universities, including LUMS and SKEMA Business School, France. He has been a member of working group on regulatory reforms at the Ministry of Finance, and has also worked at State Bank of Pakistan.
*Malik Ahmad Khan has been selected as Member Infrastructure and Regional Connectivity, who holds a degree in civil/environmental engineering from SEAS at the George Washington University and an MBA from the Said Business School at the University of Oxford where he was on a Professional Management Scholarship at Green Templeton College.
He has a career spanning over 15 years and has served world’s most admired corporations and public sector organisations, including 10 of the Fortune 50, McKinsey and Company, Standard Life Capital Partners, Fidelity Investments, Acumen, the City of Toronto, various agencies of the government of Pakistan and a variety of global multi-lateral organisations. Ahmad is on the advocacy boards of the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford as well as being an advisor to Acumen Pakistan.
**** Dr Syed Tahir Hijazi ***has been hired as Member Governance, who holds a Ph.D in Development Economics from Clark University, USA. Dr Hijazi has a professional career of more than 36 years and has served in many educational institutions including University of Central Punjab, International Islamic University, American College of Greece Athens in various capacities such as Pro-Rector and Professor. He has also served UNDP and Government of Pakistan earlier and published extensively in the area of governance.
**** Dr Naeem uz Zafar ***is selected as Member Social Sector. Dr Zafar holds a Ph.D in Economics from Northern Illinois University, USA and MBA (Finance) from IBA Karachi. He has extensive teaching and research experience of economics and social policy. He has held various teaching and administrative positions in top business schools of Pakistan. Prior to career of economics, he held various technical positions in manufacturing and power plant industries in Pakistan.
**** Professor Dr Muhammad Yahya Khawaja ***is hired as Member Information Technology & Science and Technology. Dr Khawaja has Ph.D in Information Management System and Masters in Computer Engineering from University of Missouri-Rolla, USA. He is a versatile engineer and project manager with considerable international exposure and established work history in North America and Pakistan to deliver products and services in the realm of Science and Information Technology, business and engineering bases of knowledge. He is an effective technology trainer with teaching and research experience in Pakistan, Canada and USA. Dr Yahya has authored and co-authored over 70 research publications and supervised graduate students at both MS and PhD level.
**** Muhammad Shahid Chaudhry**,* selected as Member Implementation and Monitoring, has an MSc in Industrial Engineering from Mississippi State University, USA and BSc Chemical Engineering from UET, Lahore. He is a Member of American Institute of Industrial Engineering and has an extensive experience in planning, monitoring and execution of projects. He has previously worked in monitoring and evaluation departments of organisations like Descon, SMEDA, Berger, KFC, Dow Hercules and the World Bank.
**** Ayesha Javed Eirabie ***will be rendering her services as Member Development Communications in the Planning Ministry. She brings rich background from corporate sector. She has previously worked as Executive Vice President (Marketing and Communications) PTCL and also served other organisations including KESC, American Business Council, Pakistan Cricket Board and Daily Times. She has an MBA from Imperial College, London.
**** Akhtar Ali,*** Member Energy, is an eminent energy expert and has authored a number of books on energy policy, investments and tariff issues. He is a visiting Professor of Energy at IoBM and teaches energy management. He was also a Research Fellow Energy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Besides academic sector, he has also worked as a Chief Executive Officer of Proplan Associates; Managing Director, Karachi Pipe Mills; General Manager, Heavy Mechanical Complex and several other organisations.
He has an MS degree from METU Turkey, and BE from NED, Karachi. Breaking the past tradition of appointing retired officials, the new recruitments have been made by attracting quality talent from top academic and corporate institutions of the country in line with the new vision to transform Planning Commission into a development think-tank.-PR