Our Panel
Nadeem Ul Haque is a Pakistani economist with extensive experience in policymaking during his long career at the International Monetary Fund. He is also the Vice Chancellor of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics. He has also served as Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of Pakistan.
Mr. Peter Middlebrook is an emerging and frontier market specialist, growth economist, geo-strategist, governance expert and public speaker. He is the CEO of Geopolicity Inc., an international management and investment advisory group based in the United Arab Emirates with offices in Europe, USA and Asia
Mr. Hasaan has extensive exposure to projects across Asia as well as Providing thought leadership on range of contemporary policy issues. Mr Hasaan has been advising various governments on policy and public sector reforms. He also dabbles in a diverse mix of public and private sector experience.
Dr. Nasir Javed is a Public Sector Development Specialist with more than 32 years of cumulative & diverse experience of working as a civil servant, including as Project Team Lead, CEO, individual consultant and practical hands on municipal management at the city level, including five years general administration.
28 years of experience in SME & Retail Banking, SME & Agri Value Chain Financing, Product Development, Process Re-Engineering, Credit & Risk Management, Business Strategy, Corporate & Investment Banking, and Commercial Banking.
Soil sciences expert, holding a Ph. D from Texas A&M University and M.Sc. from Faisalabad Agriculture University. He started agriculture research and development career at Pakistan Agriculture Research Council Islamabad in 1982. He taught advance level courses in Soil Sciences Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi for more than 12 years.
15 years of experience in international affairs – private and non-profit –, providing a global-minded context-sensible expertise in the development, with 10 years in conflict, post-conflict and development environments in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America with the United Nations, International Financial Institutions, as well as non-profit organizations and development consulting firms.
Global Supply Chain & Business Transformation Leader with 29 years of rich experience in delivering sustainable value to customers and stakeholders and in cutting-edge development of Human Resources and Business Processes.
His spans over a decade during which time he have remained associated with various brokerage houses and asset management companies, including JS Investments, JS Global and Elixir Securities prior to joining Business Recorder. His extensive coverage of the economy is supplemented by constant liaison with stakeholders and policy makers alike.
Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) and London Business School with over 17 years of experience in academia, fund management, strategic /actuarial/impact consulting and structured finance with experience working in leading bulge bracket investment banks/fund management firms across NY, London, UAE and Pakistan.
Mr. Friedrich Boehmler, from Germany, is a seasoned professional with 25 years of experience in designing and implementing Solar PV standalone / grid connected systems. Later, he joined pro-solar Energietechnik GmbH as shareholder and marketing Director (Distribution of thermal systems to heating installer companies).
Hanid Mukhtar taught economics at Quaid-i-Azam University, University of Massachusetts at Boston, North Eastern University, Boston University (Visiting Associate Professor), and Applied Economics Research Centre. He joined World Bank as a macroeconomist in 1990. He retired from the World Bank in 2014. Dr. Mukhtar has a PhD in Economics from Boston University.
Rashid Aziz retired from the World Bank in December 2013, after a career spanning more than 30 years at the Islamabad Office. His most recent assignment (where he spent nearly 25 years) was as Senior Energy Specialist in the Islamabad Office. He participated in Bank teams (including as the Team Leader) for the various projects at WBG. Dr. Aziz has a PhD in Economics from McMaster University.
