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Directory of LEAD Pakistan Fellows

1995 to 2013


Introduction

Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) Pakistan is a non-profit organization

working since 1995 to create and sustain a global network of leaders who are committed to

promote change towards the patterns of sustainable development that is economically sound,

environmentally responsible and socially equitable in line with Agenda 21.

LEAD came to Pakistan with a unique idea – the Leadership Development Program (LDP) –

that is its flagship program. The Rockefeller Foundation funded the LDP till 2002. However,

realizing its success and impact, LEAD sustained LDP without external funding. LEAD also

exists in other countries with LDP and now it is a vibrant global organization with 14 country

and regional programs in Asia, Africa, North & South America and Europe.

Over 18 years, LEAD has produced annual cohorts of mid to senior level managers in public,

private and civic sectors with commitment and skills to ensure that development is

sustainable. The internationally linked LDP has resulted into a Fellows Network with over 180

members nationally, linked to more than 2000 members across the world. Its primary

purpose is to create a critical mass of well-placed professionals in various sectors who can

ensure that economic, social and political development is environmentally sensitive in line

with Agenda 21.

Since 1996, LEAD Pakistan has launched 17 cohort programs and this directory contains the

information of all our fellows who have graduated since 1995 from our core training

programme in Leadership for Sustainable Development where they gain the skills and

knowledge to make them cross-sectoral leaders in their own communities and on the world

stage. They come from all sectors of society, and are united by a shared capability and

willingness to address sustainability challenges in their different countries across the globe.


COHORT 17


Salmanuddin Shah

Designation: Programme Manager

Organization: Focus Humanitarian Assistance Pakistan

Cohort: 17

Work Address: Level 9, Serena Bussiness Complex Opposite Convention

Centre Khayaban-e-Suhewardy, Islamabad.

Work Phone: +92-51-2072500

Work Fax: +92-51- 2072551

Email Address: [email protected]

Profile

Mr. Salmanuddin Shah has done is Masters in International Relations from Karachi University

and is currently working in Focus Humanitarian Assistance (FOCUS) Pakistan. He has a vast

experience of working in Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Response related activities

and believes that sustainable development can be achieved through tripartite action and

cooperation between the state, civil society and the business organizations. His expertise

includes Programme Development and Resource Mobilization, Project Management and

Monitoring, Evaluation and Research.

He has previously worked in Agha khan Education Services Pakistan in the capacity of a

teacher and Coordinator. He has conducted and organized many trainings and workshops

reaching the community teachers of the third world country and built their capacity to

provide quality education which supports critical consciousness, intellectual competency

and high moral values.

Mr. Salman has taken part in numerous international conferences and workshops including

“Monitoring and Evaluation in Unstable Environment” from Channel Research Belgium at

Dulikhal- Katmandu Nepal, DIPECHO V Lesson Learns Workshop in Dhaka - Bangladesh and

Climate Change Adaptation conference 2012 on behalf of Lead Pakistan in Vietnam.

mailto:[email protected]


Asim Jaleel Abro

Designation: Deputy Regional Program Manager

Organization: USAID's Agribusiness Project

Cohort: 17

Work Address: B-58, Street 4, Hamdard Society, Airport Road, Sukkar,

Sindh

Work Phone: 9271-5804603-4


Profile

Asim Abro is a development professional having diversified experience in community

development, who has been working with prominent development sector organizations of

Pakistan since ten years. Over past five years he has been working on management positions

in reputed social sector organizations including TVO, LEAD Pakistan, SDPI and SPO. Since

2011 he is associated with “USAID’s Agribusiness Project/Agribusiness Support Fund” as

Deputy Regional Program Manager. He closely works with agricultural departments, private

sector agribusinesses, farmer groups and associations, universities and research institutes,

and other relevant stakeholders in region, through consultative process identify potential

areas of agribusiness intervention and development support to be delivered by the ASF/UAP;

Sell and promote ASF/UAP’s concept and mandate in province / region.

Academically Mr. Abro has done Masters in Sociology and MBA from University of Sindh,

Jamshoro. He is student of M.Phil in Sociology at University of Karachi.

Mr. Abro before Joining UAP Project, was working as Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting

Specialist at SPO. During his one year association (2010-2011) he managed dozens of

projects funded by PPAF, CIDA and UNICEF in collaboration with government departments,

international donors and local communities. Before joining SPO, Mr. Abro had been associated

with LEAD Pakistan as Projects Coordinator for Sindh. During his one year association, he

managed number of projects funded by Packard Foundation, SEF and USAID.

Mr. Abro has written number of articles in English and local newspapers on social-economic,

environment and developmental issues of Pakistan, with special emphasis on water issues. He

has extensive experience in research. He had assisted a resettlement study commissioned by

Asian Development Bank in Sindh and Punjab Provinces for assessing socio-economic impacts

of people in response of a road-widening project.



Saleem Shaikh

Designation: Climate Change/Development Correspondent

Organization: AlertNet Climate, Reuters News Agency

Cohort: 17

Work Address: House No. 2019, Street 71, Ground Floor, I-10/1,

Islamabad

Work Phone: 03002106662


Profile

Saleem Shaikh is a climate change and development journalist. With over 10 year’s

extensive background in print, online and broadcast journalism, he has served at different

media organisations of national and global reputation.

Working at The News, Dawn newspapers, Geo News TV and DawnNews TV, Mr. Shaikh has

published hundreds of exclusive stories, many of them investigative, on development,

environment, renewable energy, agriculture, irrigation, health, water, economy, sanitation

and gender issues.

At present, he works as climate change and development correspondent from Pakistan for

London-based global media outlet Reuters’ climate change news portal, accessed by

millions a week for reading stories on global humanitarian and development issues.

He has some fellowships to his credit for his outstanding contribution in development

journalism. Currently, he is media fellow at the WaterAid-UK, UNFCCC and fellow at Lead-

Pakistan.

He has attended a number national, regional and global media trainings and conferences to

present Pakistan’s status on different socio-economic, environment and development

issues.

He was awarded two silver medals for his outstanding academic performance in media

studies programme at the University of Sindh, Pakistan.



Mir ShaiMazar Baloch

Designation: Principal Staff Officer to Vice

Chancellor/Director

Organization: University Advancement/ Financial Aid

University of Balochistan, Quetta.

Cohort: 17

Work Address: University of Balochistan, Sariab Road, Quetta

Work Phone: 0092-81-9211317

Work Fax: 0092-81-9211277


Profile

Mr. Mir ShaiMazar is an Anchor Person on PTV Bolan, At the same time work as Principal

Staff Officer to Vice Chancellor at University of Balochistan. On PTV Bolan he has

conducted various programs on international Days related to environment & Sustainable

development including other Social Issues. He has conducted program on Earth Hour, UN

World Water Day, Earth Day, International Migratory Bird Day, International Day for

Biological Diversity (World Biodiversity Day), UN World Environment Day, International

Mountain Day and many others. He is serving as Principal Staff Officer with the University

of Baluchistan since 2008 and has also been acting as a visiting faculty to carry out

research and produce publications, or other research outputs, in line with personal

objectives agreed in the Staff review process. Mir ShaiMazar s pervious experiences include

Assistant Director, General/ Recruitment and HR, Admin Officer CASVAB/ Assistant

Registrar Academic and editor at Monthly Balucea. Mir ShaiMazhar has also worked with the

Association of Pakistan against the introduction of multi metering on the phone numbers of

ISPs in 1997 when internet was relatively new in Pakistan, The campaign forced the

government to withdraw multi metering from Dial up connection of net numbers. He has

also participated in INSPIRE 2010 (International Strategic Partnership In Research and

Education) 23rdNov to 25th At Islamabad, INSPIRE aims to significantly strengthen

academic and research partnerships between UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and

HEIs in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan. Mr. Mir ShaiMazar

is a post graduate in Business Administration in Human Resources from University of

Balochistan. Mir ShaiMazaris alumni of PUAN (Pakistan–U.S. Alumni Network ) and visited

USA on IVLP (International Visitor Leadership Program) on Role of Spokespersons in the

United States.


Shabina Gulzar

Designation: Designation District Coordinator

Organization: Communication for Effective Social Services Delivery)

Cohort: 17

Profile

Shabina Gulzar has been working in the development sector for the last 6 years including 3

years in water sector. Currently, Shabina is working for CESSD (Communication for

Effective Social Services Delivery) a CIDA funded Project as a District Coordinator in Abbott

bad with sector specific approach with the basic objective to strengthen the communities

and to develop strong coordination and communication channels for better delivery of basic

social services. Her interest lies in the social areas of rural water sector like community

mobilization, women empowerment and water equity along with that the engineering

aspect of water sector. Shabina has was also been elected as a District councilor in Local

Government election in 2005 and has worked as a member MAJA (UNDP) project Musalihati

Jirga at district level. Shabina has worked for two years as a member of women crisis

centre in Abbottabad and is a member of Local organization Sohni Dharti working for

orphans.

Ms. Shahina holds a Masters degree in English from university of Peshawar.


Kashmala Kakakhel

Designation: Project Manager, CDKN

Organization: LEAD Pakistan

Cohort: 17

Profile

Kashmala is currently working with LEAD Pakistan as Project Manager for Climate

Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) which supports decision-makers in designing and

delivering climate compatible development. She is managing a range of projects in

Bangladesh, Nepal, India and Pakistan; issues range from developing M&E tools for

Community Based Adaptation, building a Framework of Loss & Damage for Least Developed

Countries, to developing policy briefs for country delegations to the International Climate

Negotiations and undertaking research studies on concerns of Climate Migration.

When she joined LEAD in June 2009, among other Research projects, she also managed

Cohort 14. Prior to LEAD Pakistan, she was working with Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy.

Her publications include: Government-CSOs Partnerships; towards promoting a PPP

Framework’, ‘Corporate Philanthropy in Pakistan; survey of public listed companies,

‘Collaboration between Government and Civil Society Organisations in Pakistan’ and ‘Going

beyond Business; intelligent corporate philanthropy’.

Kashmala holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Economics from London School of Economics.


Muhammad Kashif Designation: Financial Advisor Special Projects

Organization: Grant Thornton Pakistan

Cohort: 17

Profile

Mr. Muhammad Kashif is a university graduate and member of Institute of Chartered

Accountants of Pakistan, Institute of Corporate Secretaries of Pakistan and Pakistan Institute of

public and Finance Accountants. He is working as Manager, Specialist Advisory Services at Grant

Thornton Pakistan. He has vast experience in Energy sector and has worked on mega energy

projects of Pakistan. He aspires to utilize his potential and expertise for combating climate

change challenges of Pakistan by greening the energy sector of Pakistan.

Mr. Kashif has successfully completed more than 80 consultancy assignments for clients from

various sectors. He has accomplished financial modeling of seven power projects - value

exceeding US$ 987 million and capacity exceeding 1,017MW.

Mr. Kashif has extensive experience in Oil & Gas and Power sector at strategic and policy level

and has worked on 26 assignments ranging from preparation of feasibilities and business plans

to conducting due diligence for the acquisition of running and sick project for different clients.

Worked as member of financial advisory team working for the arrangement of finances from

Overseas Private Investments Corporation (OPIC) for LNG terminal and coordinated with OPIC

teams and consultants conducting due diligence of the business plan for the project.

Besides this he is also playing his role for the improvement governance of the public and private

sector organizations being a Member of Standing Committees of “Lahore Chamber of Commerce

& Industry” on Governance and Consumer Rights.


Mustapha Lotia

Designation: Director Business Risk Management

Organization: NADRA

Cohort: 17

Profile

Mr. Mustapha Lotia is a result oriented Information Technology Professional with 10+ years

of experience. A Seasoned professional in areas of I.T Infrastructure Strategy Planning,

Enterprise Application deployments, BCP/DRP, I.T Security, Project Management, Network

Communications, Data Center Design and Operations.

Mr. Lotia is apt at envisaging large scale infrastructure disaster recovery and business

continuity plans. Mr. Lotia has exceptional financial negotiation, commercial evaluation

skills Substantial knowledge of retail & corporate banking products, Alternate Delivery

Channels, Treasury products, PCI-DSS, Basel II, ISO 27002 & ALM concept.

Mr. Lotia has experience of Core Banking Infrastructure migration with local and

multinational Banks. Currently, he is Deputy General Manager, Business risk management

at NADRA. His previous experiences include, Head of IT Security & Risk Management at

Faysal Bank, Senior Project Manager / Group Information Security Officer at SAMBA Bank,

Head of Network Communication & Security at Meezan Bank etc. Mr. Lotia’s consultancy

experience includes Providing I.T Security consultancy to M/s Commtel Systems clients on

various domains including Network architecture, ERP deployment planning, Geo-located

systems and Billing applications. He has Conduct trainings for Institute of Bankers Pakistan

on Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning. He has also provided I.T

consultancy to M/s LEAD Pakistan in revamp of their IT infrastructure applications.

Mr. Mustapha Lotia holds a Bachelor degree of Computer Science. BSc (Hons) from LUMS,

Pakistan.


Ms. Rabia Zafar

Designation: Research Scholar,

Organization: Earth Sciences and Engineering Department,

Imperial College London, London, UK

Assistant Professor,

Cohort: 17 Profile

Ms. Rabia started her professional career as a Lecturer with Sardar Bahadur Khan Women’s

University teaching subjects including Alkaloids chemistry, Spectroscopy, Carbohydrate

chemistry, Organic Synthetic chemistry. Later she was promoted as Assistant professor in

the Department of Environmental Sciences. She is currently chairperson of Department of

Environmental Sciences in her University. She is teaching subjects such as Natural

Resource management, Environmental Monitoring, Environmental Chemistry,

Environmental Impact Assessment, Applied Ecology and Disaster Management. She is

establishing first comprehensive research laboratories in the field of Environmental

Sciences in the University. She is also developing EIA curricula on tertiary level institutes

under the National Impact Assessment Program.

Ms. Rabia is working as a Higher education commission Focal person for the program of

Virtual Education Project Pakistan (VEPP). She has conducted various workshops/seminars

via this program. She is technical In-charge of the High technology instruments in the

Science departments of the SBK Women’s university. She has conducted various internal

verification audits for the scientific equipments in the University. She is also member of

Internal Inspection Committee for the new installations, infrastructure projects and

purchases.

She extensively worked on “Soil Restoration” project in Australia. Currently, she is working

on climate change impact studies in Balochistan. She is also working on the incorporation

of climate change content at primary and secondary school curricula in Balochistan.

Further to that Ms. Rabia has been involved in different awareness raising programs and

community work with students to promote greenery and social awareness among students

of the university and schools. As part of community work she has planted more than 300

plants and 50 trees within and outside the university premises to provide shadow to the

people and natural habitat for the birds, while avoiding the use of expensive glass fibers.

Being a stack-holder in the field of Environmental sciences, she is also involved in air

quality monitoring program of Quetta city.


Amir Bandara

Designation: Director

Organization: Hayyat farms

Cohort: 17

Profile

Born in an Agrarian family in the rural setting of Southern Punjab, Amir is a 25 years old

farmer who has a first hand knowledge and experience of Agriculture and Dairy Farming.

He is proud to have such type of and excellent profession which is feeding the humanity.

The center point of his efforts is to promote an empower people of rural areas through

education and moral uplift.

Aamir got his Higher Secondary School Certificate from Government College Sahiwal and

his Graduation Degree from Bahaudin Zakria University (BZU) Multan. He has also attended

training sessions on agriculture farming, drip irrigation, tunnel farming and dairy farm

management from different public and private institution.

He served as Member of District Sports and Youth Development council, President of Water

and Sanitation Community Organization and various District level committees like District

Kitchen Gardening Program Committee by Government of the Punjab Agriculture

Department, District Price Control Committee by Government of the Punjab Industries,

Mines and Minerals Department, District Aman (Peace) Committee by Government of the

Punjab Home Department, and District Agriculture Committee by Government of the

Punjab.

Aamir is attached with Nestle Pakistan as Commercial Development Farmer and have vast

experience in agricultural farimg. His ambition is to be a part of a multi-lingual,

Multicultural and Multi-religious activities.


Qaisar Jamali Provincial Coordinator

UNESCO

Profile

Mr. Qaiser Jamali has 15 years experience in social and community development in

Baluchistan, strong coordination and good relationship with government, nongovernmental

and donor agencies. During his association with different organizations, Mr. Jamali has

contributed significantly to poverty alleviation through community-driven development,

especially by mobilizing local communities to form community organization. He has at

various stances promoted the development of local community capacity to respond to their

own self-identified needs, concerns and aspirations for a more sustainable approach over

the long-term.

Presently working at UNESCO as Provincial Coordinator Baluchistan, his responsibilities

include monitoring and evaluation of all UNESCO funded project. His previous experiences

include Project officer UNESCO, Provincial Director for Baluchistan National Education

Foundation (NEF),Hub General Manager NCHD and five and half years experience of

effectively managing overall administrative and financial matters of Human Development

Support Unit (National Development for Human Development) Jaffarabad.

Mr. Qaiser possess excellent and strong management, monitoring & evaluation, research

and interpersonal communication skills having knowledge of local languages Urdu, Balochi

(mother tongue), Seraiki, Punjabi and Sindhi acquainted with Pashto and Persian. He has

the ability of interacting with the local community as well as with the donor and

government agencies.

Mr. Qaiser’s expertise includes project development, implementation, monitoring and

evaluation, financial and administrative management, development awareness and training

materials, counseling, motivation, conflict resolution.

Dr. Habib is a motivational speaker and has delivered presentations in many organizations

as invited speaker on Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Time Management,

Change Management, Leadership skills, Scientific Proposal Writing Skills and Enterprise in

Bio-Sciences.


COHORT 16


Mrs. Abida Mahmood

Designation: Administrator

Organization: Qurban & Suraya Welfare trust

Cohort: 16

Work Address: Walton Road Lahore Canntt

Work Phone: 042 589966- 042 5724845

Email Address: [email protected],

Profile

Mrs. Abida Mahmood is a UK certified Teacher and has spent 12 years teaching and training

at multi ethnic and multi cultural higher secondary level in UK. She is settled in Lahore

Pakistan with the vision of imparting quality teacher training at her institute, Qurban &

Suraya Welfare trust. The trust aims at providing quality education at the lowest possible

cost especially for women. She believes that nations whose women are educated are more

competitive and more prosperous than nations where the education of women is forbidden

or ignored. Empowering women can lead to active participation of educated women is

essential to the spread of thriving civil societies, responsive and representative

governments, coping with climate changes, and stabilizing economic growth.

Mrs. Abida is trustee of Qurban & Surraya Educational trust and works voluntarily with

other institutions. She has presented many papers nationally and internationally and

represented Pakistan at the Geneva IBE conference in September 2004.

Mrs. Abida is General Secretary Pakistan Education Watch, Member Focus Pakistan,

Member SPELT (society of Pakistan English language teachers), Member NATE UK (national

association for teachers of English) & member IATEFL (International association of teachers

of English as a foreign language)

Mrs. Abida has also written 2 books, teachers hand book and a teachers journal, papers

written and presented- 7 habits of highly effective teachers, what works for teachers, 101

teaching ideas, bringing books alive, teacher training in Qurban & Surraya educational

trust, status of women in Pakistan, ICT in Qurban & Surraya Educational trust, Impact of

teachers training on teachers.

She spends summer months training in UK every year where she spreads awareness about

environmental issues in her local community and nationally.



Ms. Afia Salam

Designation: Programme Coordinator, Sindh

Organization: Imran Khan Foundation

Cohort: 16

Work Address:

Work Phone: +92-300-9223019


Profile

Ms. Afia Salam is a journalist having over three decades of experience of print and

electronic journalism. Started career as a columnist in Jasarat and Leader, a Karachi

eveninger, writing a weekly column on cricket, first ever time by a woman. She Joined the

Star, eveninger of Karachi, worked as the editor of The Cricketer, then Wings, a defense

and Aviation monthly, and Energy Update, Pakistan’s first magazine dedicated to the

energy sector. With experience of Urdu and English journalism/advertising, working

for/writing in some of Pakistan’s leading publications like The Dawn, Star, The Cricketer,

News line, Aurora, Slogan. She has also served as a Creative head of Blazon, Blitz-DDB and

Argus Advertising agencies. She has been dealing with event management, media relations

for clients of respective agencies, as well as an independent Media Relations consultant.

She has served as a Senior Copy Editor at Dawn news, Pakistan’s first English television

channel and was in charge of copy bulletin and reports copy. She was also the Content

manager for Daily Breakfast at Dawn, the morning show of the channel and was also Head

of the Culture Desk, responsible for the art & entertainment segment. Ms. Afia Salam also

headed the Education, Communications and Outreach unit at IUCN Pakistan.

Currently, she is working as Programme Coordinator, Sindh, Imran Khan Foundation A

development organization working in post flood relief reconstruction and rehabilitation

activities. She has also facilitated media training workshops for environmental journalists

on behalf of IUCN, Pakistan Press Foundation and UNESCO, and LEAD Pakistan and

Intermedia. Ms Afia has worked for the Environmental sector while working as the

Coordinator, Communications and Outreach, IUCN-Pakistan. (International Union for

Conservation of Nature)

Ms. Afia Salam is Vice President, Sindh Chapter, Citizens’ Media Commission of Pakistan, a

media watchdog body, Councilor for Helpline Trust, a consumer rights organization, Advisor

for National Forum for Environment and Health, Associate for HASWA, Healthcare and

Social Welfare Association, Trustee for Saneeya Hussain trust.


Ms. Amina Khan

Designation: Gender Equality Officer

Organization: Citizen Engagement for Social Services Delivery

Project Cohort: 16

Work Phone: 0345-9004130


Profile

Ms. Amina Khan belongs from district Swat. She is a law graduate, master degree in

political science and carries 15 years’ experience in the social sector. She started her

carrier as Social organizer and later on worked in various capacities with different national

and International level organizations like Environmental Protection Society, Swat, Federal

Bureau of Statistics Department, EIROP, Peshawar, ECI, Malakand Rural Development

Project, Japan Sponsored Project for on-farm water Management, Swat , Tarbella Water

Shed Management Project , Environmental Rehabilitation Project, Swat.

She was elected in both rounds of local government elections, as a district council member.

She is well educated, having politically sound knowledge and experience; knows how to

network in the best position to meet strategic needs of women. As a Chairperson of Social

welfare and Women Development Monitoring committee, she always facilitated the council

members to become aware of existing gender issues and gaps, with full confidence and

action points, even in the worse days of Swat. She was one of the key members to

facilitate the process of Citizen Community Board’s funds.

Ms. Amina is also a member of Sarhad Awami Forestry Itehad (SAFI), Division Behrain.

Currently she is working in Citizen Engagement for Social Service Delivery, Project (CESSD)

in 11 districts of Khyber Pukhtoonkha. As a Gender Equality Specialist, she has planned

organized and trained thousands of women and men from Pakistani CBOs, NGOs, elected

and appointed officials and religious leaders. Her one of the contribution is to initiate and

develop communication booklet – “Education, Water Management, Health and Hygiene and

Islam, from gender equality perspectives” – to help address and understand some of the

large disparities between men and women and to promote women’s participation in

decision making.

Ms. Amina has dynamic qualities of leadership and her passion is to promote the

development process with the principle of social inclusion and gender just.


Dr. Seeme Malik

Designation: Assistant Professor

Organization: COMSATS

Cohort: 16

Work Address: Park Road, Chak Shahzad

Work Phone: 0322 5025 047


Profile

Dr. Seeme Mallick is an Environmental Economist. She completed her PHd in Environmental

Economics, Graduate School of Environment, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia. 2003.

She along with two consultants have prepared the draft National Climate Change Policy for

Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Environment for approval in February 2011. She has

contributed to writing the Energy Section for Climate Change Mitigation, Vulnerable Areas for

Climate Change Adaptation, Technology Transfer and Local Financial Needs Section. Also, the

Action Plans based on National Climate Change Policy are under preparation and will be

reflected as a separate research publication by her. She also prepared the chapter sections on

Water and Energy in UNDP. 2011. Pakistan Human Development Report – Human Security.

A Working Paper on Environment, Energy and Climate Change in Pakistan: Challenges,

Implications and Required Responses was also written by Dr. Seeme Mallick and Abeer

Masood for Mahbub ul Haq Human Development Center. 2011

Dr. Seeme has 20+ years of work experience in the academia and development sector. She

has worked for NGOs like IUCN, SDPI, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Pakistan Program;

Mahbub Haq Human Development Centre ETC. Dr. Seeme is also a visiting faculty at Quaid-e-

Azam University, International Islamic University, University of Arid Agriculture, Rawalpindi

and Federal Urdu University Islamabad. Very recently she has joined LEAD Pakistan as

Coordinator Research where she is responsible for Design Research Projects with focus on

Climate Change and Natural Resource Management for South Asia, particularly, Pakistan, in

addition to Asian and Australasian Countries.

Dr. Seeme has been nominated to the position of Member Core Group of Experts on Climate

Change, Sub-Committee on Finance, Ministry of Environment, Government of Pakistan. She

is also the recipient USAID/MINFA Private Sector Agribusiness Scholarship for Masters Studies

in USA. September 1990 to July 1992. She is also a member of Pakistan Society of

Development Economists (PSDE) and Member of Council of Social Sciences Pakistan (COSS).



Mr. Asif Lehri

Designation: Manager Health Projects

Organization: BRSP, Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund

Cohort: 16

Work Address: BRSP, Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund

Work Phone: 0333-7877348/0333-7972308


Profile

Asif Lehri belongs from district Khuzdar of Balochistan having a professional degree in political

sciences. He started his career in 2001 by participating in a community Development Course

and then established "The Learners Academy of Intellectual Development" where he was

engaged in teaching youth and activism and focus worked with youth for providing them

direction and importance of a purpose full life. He joined Institute for Development Studies

and Practices (IDSP-Pakistan) as fellow and launched first "Development Studies Course" in

2003 at national level which was based on theory and practices and supervised the practices

of all the learners of the course, later on he established an "Information and Learning Center"

in district Khuzdar with the support of IDSP and worked on four major components (youth

development, provision of skills, working on public private partnership and opened up a

library for providing the education to the youth).

Asif Lehri was appointed a field coordinator in Education Policy and Planning project supported

by ESRA in 8 district of Baluchistan where he developed the five years education plans of

these districts. He served as a focal person Local Government Program supported by National

Democracy Institute where he trained the public representatives of Local government. He

served as a focal person by the organization to manage a youth development program of

British Council. He also rendered his services as a Manager of core program of IDSP "Learners

and Community partnership Program". He has also worked Imran Khan Foundation for a short

period. Currently he is working with BRSP as Regional General Manager.

Mr. Asif Lehri wants to work with the communities and to learn from them. As an activist,

community work is his passion. He wants to introduce different methods of irrigation and

agriculture; focus would be organic farming and awareness rising on organic farming. He also

has plans to introduce Bio Gas system in the communities and establishing the Olive plant for

the communities.



Syed Ali Hasnain

Designation: Manager Policy-Freshwater

Organization: WWF Pakistan

Cohort: 16

Work Phone: 92-300-8429374


Profile

Ali has twelve years of work experience, attained in Pakistan and abroad involving

extensive fieldwork related to environment, energy and sustainable development. Further

he has been exposed to trainings and field work around the world (Australia, UK,

Sweden, Bangladesh, Nepal, South Africa, Kenya, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Philippines

etc.) which has helped him gain valuable professional acumen. While performing his duties

he interacted with political governments (provincial and national), bureaucracy, civil

society, corporate sector and regulatory regimes, helping him realize how developmental

issues are pursued in different tendency systems. He also engaged with them on issues

relating to environmental laws, policies and regulations.

In his present job with WWF - Pakistan, Al is practicing and professing environmental and

developmental considerations and safeguards relating to water – food – energy nexus

security (integrated river basin management, infrastructure, stewardship, conservation,

Climate Change) that translate further into food and energy security in the context of

environment and development.

His proffesional experience is supplemented by a throughout distinction career in education

comes in well together and equips him with all the necessary skills that are required for the

work that he does. His education is an impeccable combination of Policy (Master of

Environment and Sustainability- Monash University Australia), Science (Bachelors in

Mechanical Engineering – UET Lahore) and Management (Master of Business

Administration – Punjab University).

In terms of academic career, he has been teaching since 2006. During his one and a half

year stay in Monash University (Australia) He taught Sustainable Development in a

Globalizing World (3rd year), Environmental Policy and Management (2nd year) and

Environmental Hazards and Human Vulnerability (1st year)


Dr. Moin Uddin

Designation: Director Corporate Strategy

Organization: TPS– An Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development

Cohort: 16

Work Phone: 92-301-856-9504


Profile

Dr. Moin Uddin has a diverse cross functional experience in project management,

monitoring and evaluation, research, organizational development and training. He is also a distinguished Coach, Consultant and Trainer.

Dr. Moin has a PhD in Strategy, Programme and Project Management, Skema Business

School, France, MBA with distinction from the Institute of Business Administration Karachi and Bachelors from Punjab University in Economics and Statistics. He also has one year Post Graduate Diploma in WTO and IPR from International Islamic University, Islamabad,

Pakistan. Moin is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) of Project Management Institute (PMI), USA. Dr. Moin is a HEC Approved Supervisor for supervising

research at MS and PhD level and also a reviewer for International Journal of Project Management Published in collaboration with the Association for Project Management (APM) and the International Project Management Association (IPMA).

Dr. Moin worked as Senior Investment Analyst at Fauji Foundation Pakistan and Principal

Consultant in Infrastructure Development Company (IDC) (Pvt) Ltd. He was lead in project planning, negotiation and signing of various projects, agreements, partnerships and joint ventures at Fauji Foundation and IDC.

At present, working with TPS- Subsidiary of Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development as

Director for Corporate Strategy (South and Central Asia). He is responsible for developing institutional partnerships, Programme Development and Stakeholder Coordination. Dr. Moin is a key lead for corporate social responsibility program for South and Central Asia. As a

Consultant, Coach & trainer Dr. Moin has been affiliated with various multinational companies, multilateral organizations, Government and Non Government Organizations.

Client list include AKDN, NRSP, NISTE, Norwegian Church Aid, UNDP, USAID, Islamic Relief Afghanistan & Pakistan, Serena Hotels South and Central Asia, Transworld and PTCL.

His areas of interest include strategy, system dynamics, systems thinking, project planning and management, research, monitoring and evaluation. In addition to his professional

occupations, Dr. Moin is engaged in the governance of nonprofit organizations as chairman and director for Aga Development Network institutions, affiliates and professional forums.



Ilyas Inderyas

Designation: Founding Director

Organization: Al-Falah without Walls (AwW), Quetta Baluchistan

Cohort: 16

Work Phone: 0300-3850296


Profile

Mr. Ilyas Inderyas is working as a Founding Director of Al-Falah without Walls (AwW) in

Quetta Baluchistan for the last 12 years. In fact, he established this organization for the

development, empowerment and mainstreaming of the marginalized and minority Christian

communities in Baluchistan. Being the Founding Director of AwW, Ilyas’s work port-folio

includes the overall conceptualization, planning, implementation, training, monitoring and

evaluation of the programmatic and institutional activities. Further, he also lead the training

of the core team of fellows of AwW and its institutional development process with the

development of its financial and programmatic policies, procedures and processes. Ilyas

has in fact, committed his life and career for the creation, sustainability and growth of a

Christian specific organization - AwW. Previously he has also worked for IDSP,BPEP and St.

Joseph’s Convent School.

Mr. Inderyas has been imparting various trainings and courses on youth development,

Human and Minority Rights with youth, parents and community at Quetta.

Mr. Inderyas has been a member of Youth Parliament of Pakistan. He is also a lead faculty

member of Institute for Development Studies and Practices IDSP Pakistan. During this

fellowship as a senior faculty member he had taught various courses on Culture, Spirituality

and Social Change, Imperial and Colonial basis of Leading Development Practices, Critical

Education, Pedagogy and Community Development. He is also a member of a national

network named as Vision - Pakistan. Under this network various religious minority

organizations are connected for a collective platform and voice.

Being an activist, Mr. Inderyas has been continuously providing leadership to transform the

situations of marginalized religious Christian minority community from marginality to Development, empowerment and mainstreaming. This vital work is being carried out through the organization (Al-Falah without Walls AwW) that he established with like-

minded young people for the last 12 years.



Muhammad Hashim Ghilzai

Designation: Deputy Commissioner Quetta

Organization: Government of Baluchistan, Pakistan

Cohort: 16

Work Address: DC complex Inscomb Road Quetta

Work Phone: +92(0)819201406

Work Fax +92(0)819202193


Profile

Mr. Hashim Ghilzai is a civil servant working with the Government of Balochistan since 1999.

During this period he has mostly served in the far flung areas of the province and has gained

experience in public administration, community development, project management and land

revenue administration.

He has done his master in Land Management with specialization in Natural Resource

Management from Cranfield University England. He also holds two other masters in

Mathematics and Economics from University of Balochistan Quetta. Additionally he has

attended various short courses in various institutes around the world including University of

Maryland USA and Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre Bangkok Thailand.

Currently he is serving as Deputy Commissioner Quetta since January 2012. Prior to it he has

served Government of Balochistan on various important assignments like Deputy

Commissioner Gwadar & Kalat, additional secretary Agriculture & Service and General

Administration department and also served as Director Food Balochistan.



Khuda Bakhsh


Organization: University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Punjab-Pakistan

Cohort: 16

Work Address: Department of Environmental and Resource Economics,

University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Punjab-Pakistan

Work Phone: +92 300 6693012


Profile

Mr. Khuda Baksh is working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental and

Resource Economics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad-Pakistan. He is a PhD in

Environmental and Resource Economics from University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. He

teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students different courses relating to Environmental

and Resource Economics. Courses include Environmental Economics, Resource Economics,

Project Management and Evaluation and Principles of Economics. Research activities include

supervising and assisting research work of postgraduate students. Research work conducted

under his supervision comprises issues such as estimating health cost of cotton pickers,

resource use in Bt cotton production, evaluation of better management practices and causes

of migration in marginalized rural areas. Mr. Baksh is involved as team leader in data

collection for a project from various districts of Punjab and Sindh provinces and interacts with

different types of farming communities and to understand their common problems. He

completed his research project as Principal Investigator funded by SANDEE. Another project

on determining factors influencing balance use of fertilizer is in progress. Mr. Baksh has

published number of research articles in national and international journals. He has also been

presenting his research work on various issues at national and international levels in different

conferences and seminars. His 79 research proposals presented at South Asian. Mr. Baksh is

also an Awardee of the HEC Indigenous 5000 PhD Fellowship Program Phase I .



Malik Naeem Asghar


Organization: COMSATS University, Islamabad

Cohort: 16

Work Address: Department of Management Sciences at COMSATS

University, Park Road ChakShehzad -Pakistan

Work Phone: 0333 47 30 893


Profile

Mr. Malik Naeem Asghar has done is Masters and PhD from Asian institute of Technology

(AIT) and The University of Hong Kong respectively which helped him focus on environment

and sustainable development. Mr. Naeem is a strong believer that sustainable development

can be achieved through tripartite action and cooperation between the state, civil society and

the business organizations. He has previously worked with AIT in the capacity of Project

Coordinator and Researcher and senior project associate. Mr. Naeem has also taught courses

at AIT Thailand. Now being an academic at department of management sciences, he teaches

and sensitizes the future business managers about the role of business for achieving the goal

of sustainability.

Mr. Naeem has numerous publications on his name namely, Naeem, M. A. and Peach, N.

(forthcoming in 2011) Promotion of Sustainability in Postgraduate Education in the Asia Pacific

Region, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. Naeem, M. A and Welford,

R. (2009) A Comparative Study of Corporate Social Responsibility in Bangladesh and Pakistan,

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 16(2), pp. 108-122

Mr. Naeem is a member of International Society of City and Regional Planners.


COHORT 15


Dr. Mukhtar Ali

Designation: Public Health Specialist

Organization: The Program Support Unit, People’s Primary

Health Care Initiative Balochistan, Quetta.

Cohort: 2010 - Cohort 15

Work Address: Off . Chaman Housing Scheme, Air Port Road, Quetta.

Work Phone: 081-2822660, 081-2822664

Work Fax: 081-2827635


Profile

Dr. Mukhtar Ali Zehri has an MBBS and a Masters degree in Primary Health Care

Management (M.P.H.M) deom Thailand. He has served at a variety of positions during his

professional career. He has provided oversight of midwifery school; developed training

courses and conducted in-service trainings; supervised district health programs and

worked in collaboration with District Government, Nonprofit Organizations and the Donor

Community. He has contributed as member of the Task Force on PHC and District Health

Care System Management, Strengthening Programs and M&E. he has also worked as

Executive District Officer, Health, Khuzdar, with a focus to achieve policy objective of the

Government. He had provided District Health Care Management and Promotion of Health

Care Delivery System

As a trainer he developed training courses of District Health Managers on Health Care

System and is a Master Trainer on Gender and Focal Person on Gender Mainstreamed

gender in the curriculum of” Management” as part of the Institutionalization of Gender

Mainstreaming in Public Sector for the support of implementation of GRAPs supported by

CIDA and ADB conducted training on Gender Mainstreaming on Project Cycle of

Department of Health.

Dr. Mukhtar currently serves as Focal Person Training and Gender at the Institute of

Public Health, Quetta.



Dr. Razia Shahnawaz

Designation: CLMO/ Senior Lecturer

Organization: Institute Of Public Health, Quetta


Work Address: IPHQ Brewery Road Quetta

Work Phone: 9213205

Work Fax: 9213207

Email: [email protected]

Profile

Dr. Razia Shahnawaz is a graduate of Institute of Public Health, Quetta and has over the

years enjoyed a long and strong relationship with the Institute. Besides serving in

different hospitals and teaching undergraduate and post graduate students at Bolan

Medical College in Quetta, she is responsible for the development of Environmental Health

Cell & health education cell at the institute. Over the years she has gained vast

experience of public health particularly in areas of health education & environmental

health and primary health.



Dr. Saira Afzal

Designation: Assistant Professor, Department of Community

Medicine

Organization: King Edward Medical University


Work Address: Nelagumbad, Anarkali, Lahore

Cell Number: 0334-4338525


Profile

Dr. Saira Afzal graduated from King Edward Medical University, Lahore and is currently

serving there as Assistant Professor in Department of Community Medicine. Till date she

has published 11 papers in national and international journals and has acted as both Co-

investigator and Principal investigator in different research projects. In the recent years

she has been actively involved in holding free medical camps in different villages with

Mother and Child Welfare Association (MACWA).

At present Dr. Afzal is pursuing her doctoral degree in preventive medicine and public

health.



Dr. Seema Nighah-e-Mumtaz

Designation: Associate Professor & HoD,

Department of Community Medicine

Organization: Hamdard University


Work Address: Shahrae Madinat Al-Hikmah,

Muhammad Bin Qasim Avenue, Karachi



Profile

Dr. Seema Nigah-e-Mumtaz possesses over 15 years of teaching experience in health

care organizations/universities. Of these the last seven were spent in serving Pakistan

Navy. Managing health care organizations, academics and research are her area of

interest and specialty. Till date she has published 12 research papers in national and

international journals.

Dr. Mumtaz is presently working as the Associate Professor in Department of Community

Medicine at Hamdard College of Medicine and Dentistry, Karachi.



Dr. Syed Muhammad Mubeen

Designation: Vice-Principal (Admin) and Associate Professor,


Organization: Hamdard College of Medicine & Dentistry, Hamdard

University




Profile

Dr. Syed Muhammad Mubeen has received postgraduate qualifications in Environmental

Sciences (MES) from University of Karachi and Public Health (MPH-By Research) from The

University of Melbourne, Australia. He also enjoys membership of College of Physicians &

Surgeons, Pakistan in Community Medicine. He also serves in the Editorial Board of

Journal of Pakistan Medical Association (JPMA), Journal of Mohammad Medical College and

Annals of Hamdard University. He has also conducted several workshops on Medical

Writing, Research Methodology, SPSS and EndNote Referencing software at various

medical colleges and institutions.

Dr. Mubeen is currently teaching the subject of Community Medicine to undergraduate

medical students in Hamdard University, Karachi. He also holds the position of Vice-

principal at Hamdard College of Medicine & Dentistry. He lists occupational health,

environmental pollution and tobacco control among his areas of interest and has 13

research publications both in national and international journals.



Dr. Adil Faraz

Designation: Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Organization: Hamdard University




Profile

Dr. Adil Faraz is a graduate of Sindh Medical College, Karachi. He is presently serving as

Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine Hamdard College of Medicine &

Dentistry Karachi; and as Consultant Physician at Karachi Adventist Hospital.

Dr. Adil lists Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine among his fields of interest. He has

also co-authored a research paper.



Dr. Syed Sanwar Ali Shah

Designation: Associate Professor,


Organization: Jinnah Medical and Dental College Karachi


Work Address: 22-23, Shaheed-e-Millat Road, Karachi



Profile

Dr. Syed Sanowar Ali is currently serving as Associate Professor in the Department of

Community Medicine at Jinnah Medical & Dental College, Karachi. Over the years he has

gained vast experience of public health particularly in the areas of, primary health care,

community development, women & child health and the like.

In pursuance of his interest in studying the effects of environment on health, Dr. Ali is

presently enrolled in a doctoral program at the Institute of Environmental studies, Karachi

University.



Prof. Dr.M. Irfan Ullah Siddiqui

Designation: Vice Principle

Organization: Bahria University Medical and Dental College


Work Address: 13, National Stadium Road, Karachi



Profile

Professor Dr. M. Irfan Ullah Siddique is a graduate of Dow Medical College, Karachi and is

the only person in Pakistan with four qualifications in the subject of Community Medicine -

FCPS, MPH, M. Phil and MCPS.

He possesses diverse experience in teaching at both undergraduate and post graduate

levels and has also visited Oxford University, England as guest lecturer. He has a sound

research background and as Chief Facilitator of College of Physicians and Surgeons,

Pakistan has conducted more than 200 research workshops and dozen of SPSS

workshops.

Dr. Siddique has supervised more than 20 dissertations and around 100 research projects

and has had several papers published in journals of international repute. During the

course of his professional career he has also had opportunities of working with WHO and

UNICEF.



Dr. Komel Zulfiqar

Designation: Senior Lecturer,


Organization: Islamic International Medical College




Profile

Dr. Komel Zulfiqar is a graduate of Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Lahore. She has been

affiliated with the private sector for the last several years and has served at various

positions. Presently she is serving as Assistant Professor in Department of Community

Medicine at Islamic International Medical College, Rawalpindi,

Environmental Health is Dr. Zulfiqar’s special area of interest and till date she has 2

research papers to her credit.



Dr. Farah Rashid Siddiqui

Designation: Assistant Professor,

Community Medicine Department

Organization: Shifa College of Medicine




Profile

Dr. Farah Rashid Siddique completed her Post Graduation in Public Health (MPH) from

Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds, England in 2000. She has worked as

Public Health Manager for five years in North Kirklees Primary Care Trust, England. One of

the project was Peer Health education, which was nominated by the Department of Health

for ‘Northern and Yorkshire Excellency Award, 2002’ and also won ‘Outstanding

Achievement Award, 2002’ in recognition of providing best smoking cessation service in

North Kirklees.

Dr. Siddique is currently serving as Assistant Professor in Shifa College of Medicine. Prior

to that she served in the same capacity in Islamic International Medical College, Riphah

University, Islamabad. She has multiple national and international publications and paper

presentations. Her main areas of interest include, health education and communication,

maternal and child health, research in public health and community oriented medical

education.



Brigadier Dr. Maqsood Ul Hassan

Designation: Vice Principle

Organization: Army Medical College




Profile

Brigadier Dr. Maqsood-ul-Hassan graduated from Dow Medical College Karachi in 1980.

Commissioned in Pak Army since, he has been in charge of Army Health Units and also

been engaged as an instructor in the community. Having served in the Army for almost

30 years now, Mr. Maqsood is Associate Professor at Army Medical College and Head of

Department of Community Medicine at the Hospital.

He has had the opportunity to head the Medical Directorate Branches of both PAF and

Pakistan Army which deal with policy making and implementation of

preventive/community medicine actions. Mr. Maqsood has supervised more than a dozen

dissertations and has also served as an examiner for various institutions.



Dr. Samina Mohsin Khan

Designation: Medical Officer/ Course Coordinator

Organization: Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences


Work Address: G-8/3, Islamabad

Telephone Number 051- 5153304



Profile

Dr. Samina Mohsin Khan is a public health specialist having seventeen years of diversified

work experience in academic settings, operations research and evaluation. During her

professional career she has worked with institutes like, UNODC, USAID, JICA, IRC,

UNHCR, WHO, DFID, Asia Foundation, Marie Stopes Society, Health Services Academy

and Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences.

She is the principal author of National Plan of Action and Strategic Guidelines for Elderly

of Pakistan, and has also written gender specific analytical papers on National Maternal

and Child Health Strategy of Government of Pakistan.

Over the years, Dr. Khan has contributed as researcher, analyst, technical and evaluation

expert, RH / training specialist, field manager and counselor to the area of Public Health.

Currently, she is coordinating Residency Training Program for postgraduate medical

students at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad.

In addition Currently she is working as coordinator for Internship, observer ship and short

training courses in Pakistan Institute of medical Sciences (PIMS) and also as incharge of

Private ward in Children Hospital, PIMS.



COHORT 14


Mr. Adnan Sattar

Designation: Freelance Development Researcher and Trainer



Profile

Formerly Manager Training Unit with LEAD Pakistan, Adnan Sattar, now works as a freelance development researcher and trainer. He has been a consultant to the American

Centre for Labour Solidarity, Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development (PILDAT), South Asia Partnership and other national and international organisations. Sattar holds a Master in Human Rights from University College London and is particularly interested in exploring

how human rights and other moral concepts impinge on our interaction with environment as individuals and as members of collectivises



Arif Naseer Pervaiz

Designation: Multisector Specialist

Organization: USAID- Pakistan

Cohort : 2009 - Cohort 14


Profile

Arif Pervaiz works as Multisector Specialist with USAID-Pakistan looking after municipal

services, health, and energy. Prior to this, he worked as environmental and social safeguards consultant with the Thar Coal and Power Technical Assistance Project. Arif has

also served as the City Director of the Clinton Climate Initiative where the main function was to help foster and support development of energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions reduction projects. As a Country Manager for WaterAid Pakistan, in 2006-7, he

established the country office, set-up financial and monitoring systems, developed country strategy and programme, networked with donors, relevant stakeholders and partner

organisations, oversaw capacity building of partner organisations. In 2004-05, Mr. Pervaiz as Senior Coordinator Policy at IUCN initiated and guided policy and advocacy work on water, air quality management, international environmental agreements, and trade and

environment. He took lead in establishing programme on air quality management in IUCN. As Assistant Programme Coordinator, Ecosystem and Livelihood Group, IUCN Regional

Office, Bangkok in 2004 he facilitated application of IUCN’s programme planning and assessment systems. He ensured promotion of quality assurance in project development and devised a project portfolio tracking system.

In May 2002, Mr. Pervaiz completed a Masters in Environmental Management from the

National University of Singapore and another Masters in Management of Non-Governmental Organisations, from London School of Economics in 1997. A Bachelors in Political Science and History from Rutgers University New Jersey, USA and a Bachelors in Commerce from

Government Commerce College, Karachi.



Ayyaz Gul Kiani

Designation: Executive Director

Organisation: DEVNET Consultants


Email:

[email protected]

Web: www.devnet.org.pk

Profile

Ayyaz Kiani is a senior development consultant specializing in public health. He has vast

experience of working with NGOs, media, federal and provincial governments and

international development agencies. He has a master's degree in public health from

University of Liverpool, postgraduate diplomas in business and social sector management

from University of Victoria, Australia and Lahore University of Management Sciences.

Mr. Kiani has undertaken consultancy and training assignments in Pakistan, Thailand,

Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Turkey, India and Uganda. He has experience of working

with the WHO, DFID, UNDP, CWS, USAID, MSH, PSI, Green star Social Marketing,

Universities of Amsterdam, Liverpool, Punjab and Balochistan. He represented Pakistan in

the 58th Health Assembly of the WHO in Geneva in 1998.

Mr Kiani’s public policy advocacy successful lead to a number of legislative and policy

changes in Pakistan including promulgation of laws regarding consumer protection,

prohibition of smoking in public places, protection of young child nutrition, and formulation

of national policies for medicines, provision of safe drinking water and sewerage

management services. He assisted the Supreme Court of Pakistan as amicus curie in a land

mark case related to policy and practice of the pharmaceutical sector in Pakistan.

He has also contributed as teaching faculty in University of Amsterdam’s international

courses and Centre for Health Management Sciences, Lahore. He has written extensively in

professional journals and media and has the distinction of writing an editorial in the British

Medical Journal. He was editor of the most widely circulated public health magazine in

Pakistan for seven years. He has also edited the first public health publication in Potohari

language.


Haroon Shuaib

Designation: Freelance Consultant

Cohort: 2009- Cohort 14

Cell Number: 92-334-4485085


Profile

Haroon Shuaib is currently working with FIRMS Project, an economic growth project of

USAID as the team leader of the communication team. This particular project is working to

strengthen small and medium enterprises and generate economic activity as an alternate in

terrorism prone districts of Pakistan with a special focus on female participation. Trained as

a documentary film maker, Haroon has worked for various development agencies on issues

ranging from gender, environment, and poverty alleviation to public health and

governance. Haroon has also worked for international television channels such as ITN-UK

and BBC.

Having worked to develop comprehensive 360 degree communication strategies and plans

for development programmes, Haroon believes that responsible mainstream media can be

a great agent for change and must play its role in positive societal change.

Sustainable development and community activism are his passions and he maintains that

effective, participatory and engaging communication lies at the heart of any durable social

and behavioral change.

Haroon likes to read, write, and paint for leisure and is married with two children.


Malik Amin Aslam Khan


Organization: ENVORK



Profile

Malik Amin Aslam is currently serving as the Global Vice President of IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) as well as being the UNDP-Climate Change advisor to

Pakistan. He has been engaged as a Climate Change consultant, for the past decade, and has advised (through the UN) a number of countries, including Turkey, East Timor,

Uzbekistan Malawi and Pakistan on the development of climate change policy with a focus on carbon finance. Concurrently, he is also been serving on the editorial board for the international “Climate Policy Journal” and the advisory board for the “Plan Vivo foundation”.

He has a number of international publications on CDM and Emissions Trading issues to his credit and has been the lead author for the Pakistan National Sustainable Development

Strategy (2012) as well as the Pakistan Climate Finance NEEDS study (2010).

From 2002-07 he has served as a Member of Parliament and from 2004-07 as the Minister of State for Environment (Government of Pakistan) and, in this capacity, has been the

architect of the CDM operational strategy in Pakistan. During this period Malik Amin Aslam also worked as the Prime Minister’s special envory on the United Nations Reform Panel for system wide coherence to provide input on reforms of the global environmental governance

system. Malik Amin Aslam has also had the privilege of Chairing the G77+China negotiations group during 2006/7. Politically, he is also currently developing a “Green

Development Strategy” for a mainstream political party in Pakistan.

Mr Malik is an electrical engineer with an MBA from McGill University and an MSc from Oxford University where he completed his thesis on the utility of the “emissions trading” concept within the context of managing the Climate Change issue.



Mukhtar Ahmad Ali

Designation Executive Director and CEO

Organization Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives

(CPDI)

Cohort 2009 - Cohort 14

Email [email protected]

Profile

Mr. Ali is the Executive Director of Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives, (CPDI) – a civil society organization that was established in September 2003. Varying from research, policy advocacy, and management to external relations, his focus remains on local

governments, peace and tolerance, elections, rule of law, transparency and access to information, budget tracking and legislative/democratic development. He has also worked

as the Executive Coordinator with the Consumer Rights Commission of Pakistan (CRCP) and as a Senior Research Fellow with the Area Study Centre, Quaid-i-Azam University and

Independent Bureau for Humanitarian Issues (IBHI). He has a list of research publications to his name.

As a recipient of the DFID- Shared Scholarship Scheme, Mr. Ali completed his M.Phil in Development Studies with a distinction from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS),

University of Sussex, UK in 2003. He has an M.Phil in International Relations with an A-grade from the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.



Zubair Khurshid Bhatti

Designation: Director of Programs

Organization: The Asia Foundation



Profile

Mr. Bhatti is currently working as the Director Programs at The Asia Foundation where he is

supervising implementation and development of programs in civil society development, conflict resolution, democratic governance and gender empowerment. Mr. Bhatti was

associated with Engro Chemical as the Public Affairs Managers, supervising government relations, corporate communications, and corporate social responsibility.

As the District Coordination Officer for Jhang, Punjab Province in 2007-2008, Mr. Bhatti introduced several governance innovations with one successful anti-corruption initiative

that received wide recognition in the national press. Mr. Bhatti also managed all devolved departments – Education, Health, Agriculture, Works and Services, Information Technology, Community Development; also administering elections in Feb 2008 for eleven

provincial and six national assembly constituencies. Over his tenure, Mr. Bhatti has also served in the governments of Sindh and Baluchistan. From 2002 to 2007, he worked with

the Asian Development Bank and Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy. Mr. Bhatti has a Master in Public Policy from Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University,

USA, and an MBA from University of Science and Technology, Beijing.



Hina Salim Lotia

Designation: General Manager

Organization: Project Development Department, LEAD Pakistan

Cohort: Cohort 14

Work Phone: 92 51 2651511

Work Fax: 92 51 2651512


Web: http://www.lead.org.pk

Profile

Nobody excelled in LEAD as quickly as did Hina – from an intern in 1999 to the General

Manager Program Development Department in 2005 to Director Programs in 2012. LEAD and Hina, both, have grown together. And now, she is literally the institution’s memory

and a pillar – but yet modest in her working, ready to help her colleagues and new comers.

As head of the department, Hina would develop new programs/projects and interact with the donors, clients, partners, fellows, associates, and board members to foster LEAD’s

objectives in sustainable development. She is working on programs that LEAD has designed to create and sustain a leadership that could meet the challenges of climate

change. Her latest endeavor is LEAD Climate Action Program (L-CAP) – a five year initiative to promote climate compatible development in the country.

During LEAD’s evolution, Hina’s strengths were also used in such areas which added to her assigned challenges. She is now playing a strategic role in organization’s policies. In

2005, she played a key role in carrying out two strategic planning exercises at LEAD that gave the organization a new road-map. She has been representing the institution at

national/international forums and also serving as a trainer at various events in LEAD programs.

Hina has a few worthwhile publications to her credit: Lund-Thomsen, P. Mansur, A. & H. Lotia, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability of Donor-financed Interventions

in the South: The Case of Pakistan, in Rahbek-Pedersen, E. & H. Muniche, Corporate Citizenship in Developing Countries, Copenhagen Business School Press, Copenhagen,

2006. She also prepared a Case Study on Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center which was published as part of the report: Investing in Ourselves: Giving and Fundraising in Pakistan published with support from Asian Development Bank, The Asia Foundation, Nippon Foundation and USAID.

Also a LEAD Fellow, Hina has a master’s in economics from the Quaid-e-Azam University. A Virgo, Hina lives in Rawalpindi with her parents. Her father is a successful businessman.


http://www.lead.org.pk/


Zofeen Tufail Ebrahim

Designation: Freelance Journalist

Profile

With a Masters in Journalism from the University of Punjab, Lahore in 1985, Ms. Zofeen

joined a woman’s English language monthly as an assistant editor, finally heading it as an editor. Moving on to work with Dawn, Pakistan’s widely circulated English daily; she did personality profiles and investigative stories on development (urban, women and

environment) issues. Leaving her job in 2001, she started working as a freelance journalist, contributing to dailies like Dawn, The News and a current affairs monthly magazine, News

line. She also contributes to international wire services including the Inter Press Service, Women’s Feature Service and Integrated Regional Information Networks, (commonly known as IRIN). Simultaneously she also took various consultancy assignments for a

number of NGOs and INGOs.

Ms. Zofeen’s work has been commended nationally as well as internationally for her writings on development issues. In 2007, she was awarded the Green Media Award by Tetra Pak for her story on how leak of a radioactive waste dump which was affecting the

health of the nearby villagers and the complete indifference of the government to the issue. In February 2008, she was awarded Women Achiever’s Award (in the field of journalism) by

Indus Television Network for her writings on women’s issues.

Cohort : 2009 - Cohort 14




Rehmat Karim

Designation: Head of Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Department

Organization: Strengthening Particpatory Organzation (SPO)

City: Islamabad

Telephone Number: (+92-51) 2104677, 2104679, 2104680

Cell Number: +923065154143

Email Address: [email protected] & [email protected]

Profile:

Mr. Rehmat Karim is the Head of Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Department at

Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO). Over last fourteen years, he has

undertaken multiple roles in the development sector. The most significant ones include

design, development, management, and monitoring and evaluation of multi-sectoral

projects. He has natural inclination to experiment application of new ideas, and tendency

for continuous learning. He is a self-motivated and goal-driven person, and has ability to

manage multiple teams simultaneously. He has participated in various national and

international trainings and workshops on various developmental issues.




COHORT 13


Ahmad rafay alam

Designation: Adjunct Faculty

Organization: Property Law Hassan & Hassan Advocates



Profile

Ahmad Rafay Alam is an environmental lawyer with a decade's experience in corporate,

commercial law, litigation, regulation and environmental activism. He specializes in the

areas of natural resources, energy, water, environment and urban development. Mr. Alam

has served as the Chairman Lahore Electric Supply Company and is a Director of the Urban

Unit of the Government of Punjab and the Lahore Waste Management Company. Mr. Alam

is a member of the faculty of the Law & Policy Department at the Lahore University of

Management Sciences where he also conducts research with the Development Policy

Research Center. Mr. Alam is the Vice President of the Pakistan Environmental Law

Association and General Secretary of the Public Interest Litigation Association of Pakistan.

Rafay lives in Lahore with his wife and daughter. On the weekends, he helps organize

Critical Mass Lahore, a cycling initiative aimed to bring awareness about public transport



Muhammad Uris Umrani

Designation: Director programmes -Devcon

Organization: DevCon

Work Phone: 051-4861212

Work Fax: 051-4438992



Profile

Muhammad Urs Umrani is presently working as Director of DevCon- an association for Rural

Development. He also works as an independent consultant with a number of organizations,

such as OMV Pakistan, Ask Development and Save the Children - UK, Islamabad. He possesses extensive experience of working with NGOs, Community Based Organizations, and National and International development agencies in different capacities. He has vast

experience in the fields of corporate social responsibility, human settlement and rehabilitation, educational and institutional development. He holds a masters’ degree in

Sociology; an MBA degree from the University of Sindh and an MSc degree in Rural Development, under the Linkage Program of Sindh Development Study Center (SDSC) and WYE College, London.



Mr. Muhammad usman chachar

Designation: Additional Secretary (Staff) to Chief Secretary

Organization: Chief Minister Secretariat, Government of Sindh


Email:

[email protected]

Profile

Dr. Muhammad Usman Chachar is presently serving as an Additional Secretary to Chief Minister, Sindh. He is endowed with the responsibility of ensuring the implementation of

government policies, by the government departments, as per rules and procedures of the Provincial Government. Previously, he worked as a District Coordination Officer of a newly

created district, Matiari, in the province of Sindh. There he served for a period of three years, till April 2008. He utilized his management skills in transforming this remote district into a fully functional District.



Raja m. Ali saleem

Designation: Ph.D Student

Organization: George Mason University



Profile

Ali is currently a second year PhD (Public Policy) student at George Mason University. He

has done Masters in development administration and business administration. He has more than twelve year experience working as a civil servant, development consultant, project

manager and public finance management expert. He has two kids and likes to run.



Sana Amin Khan

Designation Consultant - M&E/ Cash Transfer Programs

Organization World Bank/ Ayala Consulting

Cohort 2008 - Cohort 13


Profile

Mr. Sana has more than a decade experience of working in Pakistan in Development and Humanitarian sector. He has been working for World Bank as Consultant Social Protection,

design and implementation of cash transfer programs in Pakistan. He had been associated with United Nations as Design and implementation of Rapid Humanitarian Assessments

expert for six months. He also remained associated with Oxfam Novib as the head of M&E and Institutional Funding Units in its Pakistan office.

Over the ten years of working experience with the World Bank, United Nations, Oxfam and AKDN (Aga Khan Development Network), Mr. Sana has developed his expertise in Design

and Conduct Assessments for rapid humanitarian response in post disaster situation,, policy dialogue, design and implementation of Social Safety Nets (Cash Transfer Programs), Project Management, M&E of development and humanitarian projects/ programs,

Programmatic support to partners and field staff on project Planning and implementation, improving Knowledge Infrastructures between and with counterparts, Grants Management

and Information Management Systems (MIS & GIS).



Zubair Torwali

Designation: Project Coordinator

Organization: Alif Bae Tae

Cohort: Cohort 13


Profile

Mr. Zubair Torwali, a conservationist in natural and cultural heritage, is born and raised in

the idyllic valley Bahrain Swat. He has been conducting research on the minority languages

in north Pakistan; and is involved in preserving, documenting and promotion of the Dardic

and other endangered languages and culture. He has a lasting interest in conservation of

the rich and diverse natural resources in the region from Hindu Kush to the foot of

Himalaya via the Karakorum in Pakistan.

Mr. Torwali is also involved in human rights protection; and regularly contributes media

articles to newspapers such The News, Express Tribune, Dawn, Daily Times, Pakistan Today

and The Friday Times. A number of research papers on extremism, militancy and minority

languages are also in his credit. He has also been active in peace development in Swat;

and in Pakistan. He has been committed to the right of freedom of expression amidst the

worst insurgency in Swat; and for his commitment to freedom of expression the Human

Rights Watch has recently feted him.

Currently Mr. Zubair Torwali is leading Idara Baraye Taleem-o-Taraqi (IBT) or Institute for

Education and Development, a nonprofit organization based in Swat working alongside the

communities for an integrated and sustainable development. Presently Mr. Torwali works at

IBT [www.ibtswat.org] as Executive Director.


Aliya Agha Nguyen

Designation: Education Specialist

Organization: UNICEF

Cohort: Cohort 13


Profile

Ms. Aliya Nguyen Agha is currently working for the International Labour Organization, on its

first gender specific project. She has also served as a consultant for international

organizations, namely DFID and GTZ. She practiced corporate law for over 10 years, prior to joining the development sector. She worked as Economic Advisor with the European Commission Delegation in Pakistan. She facilitated in the preparation of investment guide

for Pakistan. Ms. Nguyen holds a masters’ degree in corporate law from University College London, UK. She is a Chevening Scholar and has published articles to her credit, on legal

and social issues.


Ms. Huma Batool


Organization: SBK University of Baluchistan

Cohort: Cohort 13

Work Phone: 0819202106, 0819202098, 0819201377


Profile

Ms. Huma Batool is presently working as an Assistant Professor at SBKW University Quetta

and an Environmental Biologist/Applied Ecologist. She is a regular faculty member of the

Environment Department in Sardar Bahadur Khan (SBK) Women University of Balochistan, Quetta. Previously she worked with the development agency SCAMB, in Quetta and contributed in its participatory development projects. Her work is mostly related to

participatory rural and urban development, research for need assessment, planning, environmental teaching and training and general management aspects of multi-disciplinary

integrated projects.

Huma has been involved in conducting training programs regarding climate change and its impact on women of Balochistan specifically, presentation skills, Education/Environmental Education,Environment, Natural Resource Management (NRM), Environmental Impact

Assessment (EIA), and Research methodology. She patronizes a women group which works on awareness raising and sustainable development education/campaigns.She is a member

of Senate SBKW University, Editorial Board SBKW University, and Academic Council.

Ms. Batool is a Ph.D. Scholar (Commonwealth UK scholarship) and holds an M. Phil in Natural Resource Management/ Ecofeminism, and an M.Sc. in Botany. Huma has read

research papers in many National and International conferences and is the author of 6 international scientific research publications in impact factor journals and participated in Environmental (Climate Change)training programs in United States of America (USA), and

Mexico. She also supervises research on local environmental issues. She is an environmental journalist and regularly writes articles in local English news papers.



Humaira Salik

Designation: Assistant HR-Manager

Organization: National Bank of Pakistan

Cohort : Cohort 13


Profile

Ms. Humaira is currently working as an Assistant Manager, Human Resources in the

National Bank of Pakistan (NBP), Rawalpindi branch. NBP, being a government entity deals with people at the grassroots level. It provides loans, pension payment and other financial

services to the lower-classes of the society. This includes small and medium enterprises and micro-financing opportunities that address the issues of sustainable development. She also serves as a visiting faculty at National University of Science and Technology (NUST).

She is also doing Masters in Political Science from Punjab University. She is working to

acquire a Professional Banking Certification degree, known as DAIBP (IBP). Ms. Salik holds an MBA in Human Resource Management.


Jamila Sikandar Khan

Designation: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Organization: UNDP Pakistan

Cohort : Cohort 13


Profile

Ms Jamila Sikander Khan is working as a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer for the UNDP’s

Project on Gender Based Governance Systems in Pakistan. Ms Khan is a passionate community development professional and an ardent volunteer of the social development

sector. She possesses six years of work experience with different international organizations. She got exposure, by working on community mobilization, capacity development, disaster risk reduction (community based & national), environment &

development, crisis prevention and recovery, poverty reduction, gender empowerment and governance. Ms. Khan holds a masters degree in Public Administration from University of

Karachi. She received a fellowship from the government of Netherlands, to undertake a certificate course on “Participatory Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation” from Wageningen University – Netherlands. Ms. Khan has also utilized her expertise as a volunteer, with

different institutes of the Aga Khan Development Network.


Syed Tahir Hussain Naqvi

Designation: Chief Operating Officer

Organization: Karachi Educational Development Centre

Cohort : Cohort 13


Profile

Syed Tahir Hussain Naqvi has been working as professional development Specialist for

EDC-USAID Teacher Education Project mainly in Sindh. He is helping the Government

Elementary Colleges to introduce the newly offered two years ADE-Associate Degree in

Education program leading to 4 years Bachelors in Education B.Ed Program. His major

responsibilities are to develop the faculty, Teacher Educators and Master trainers of

Elementary colleges and Univerisites to be equipped with the most modern methodologies

and techniques to develop prospective teachers in Pakistan. Prior to this he was working for

DIL-Development in Literacy and as a Chief Operating Officer in a project for Karachi

Educational Development Centre (CDGK), for the last two years. His major responsibilities

were to organize and manage various capacity building programmes for school leaders,

teachers and other staff members. In addition, He was responsible to reports to the

Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) Committee, for

monitoring and improvement of CDGK Schools and CDGK hierarchy. He started his career

as an English teacher and gradually excelled in the field of education. He acquired the

required qualification and knowledge, to take leadership positions in the field of Educational

Leadership and Management.


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Ahsan Ali Mangi

Designation: Joint Secretary Economic Affair

Organization: Ministry of Economic Affairs and Statistics,

Government of Pakistan

Cohort: 2006-2007 – Cohort 12

Cell Number: 92 346 9889889


Profile

Mr. Ahsan Ali Mangi is presently serving as Joint Secretary Ministry of Economic Affairs and

statistics, Government of Pakistan. Prior to that he held the position of Joint Secretary,

Ministry of Industries where his responsibilities included regulation of ’Heavy Industry’

including Steel and fertilizer sectors in addition of standardization and implementation of

safety standards in Industrial sector in Pakistan.

He has over 14 years of experience in public administration and policy formulation and

reforms in crucial sectors like public finance and planning, public governance and reforms,

education, poverty reduction, disaster management etc.

Mr. Mangi is an adjunct faculty in Universities my courses include MS and BS level

instruction in Project Management, Procurement and Contract Management, Development

Studies etc.

He has also remained involved in expert consultancies with international and national

agencies including GTZ, UNDP etc. in areas like DRR, Disaster damage assessment, public

sector education etc.



Azhar Mahmood

Designation: Business Manager

Organization: Vinyl (Pakistan & Middle East) DuPont

Cohort Cohort 12


Profile

Azhar Mahmood is working as Vinyl Business Manager for Pakistan and Middle East at

DuPont. He is responsible for revenue growth from geographical expansion, distribution management, price value optimization, key account management and related market

penetration strategies for vinyl business in Pakistan and Middle East. His additional assignments include "Country Safety Leader" role for DuPont Operations in Pakistan during 2008-10 and Six Sigma Process Improvement Specialist at present. He has received

DuPont Pakistan Powerhouse Award, DuPont Pakistan Einstein Award in 2007, Certificate of Excellence by DuPont USA in 2008 and Letter of Appreciation in 2009 on achieving

exceptional business results. He has won “Global Volunteerism Recognition” award by E.I. DuPont de Nemours Government Affairs, Wilmington, USA. He has done BSc Engineering

from University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore Pakistan. His main areas of interest are Innovation Management, Process Optimization, Sustainable Development and

Marketing.


Hyder Bux Shar

Designation: Advocate High Court

Organization: Hyder Law Associates

Cohort: Cohort 12

Work Phone: +92 333 7581238


Web: http://www.cpjp.org

Profile

Currently Mr. Baloch is practicing in the areas of Family and Juvenile Law, Civil Law,

Criminal Law, Banking and Finance, Insurance, Federal Services Tribunal, Labour and

Employment, Narcotics, Oil and Gas regulatory authority (OGRA), Tax Law including facilitation in getting Income Exception Certificate for NGOs, Registration of companies, NGOs, and philanthropist organization, Intellectual Property Law and Public interest

litigation etc.

Prior legal practice Mr. Hyder Baloch was working with the development sector, where he served with LEAD Pakistan, Islamabad in Project Management Department. Before his appointment as Young Professional Officer at LEAD-Pakistan Head office, he was working as

District Coordinator School Improvement Grant at LEAD-Pakistan's project office Khairpur Mir’s District of Sindh Province-Pakistan. The project was supported by Education Sector

Reforms Assistance (ESRA) programme and United States Agency for International Development (USAID). He has been entrusted to supervise the activities related to grant management. He managed the grant in 1300 Boys & Girls Primary schools of Khairpur

District and disbursed $1.85 million in 1300 schools of Khairpur District, Sindh Pakistan.

Before this role Mr. Hyder Baloch has been working as a Coordinator START (Student Teacher Appreciation and Recognition Token) Package, with LEAD Pakistan, where he led all

the activities of START Package and managed the START activities at Khairpur and Sukkur Districts. He efficiently and transparently managed the distribution of 83300 START Student and Teacher Kits.

Mr Hyder Baloch joined the LEAD Pakistan as a Trainer & Social Mobilizer in September,

2004. Before joining LEAD, Hyder Baloch worked as Social Research Officer (Social Scientist) in the Department of Paediatrics, The Aga Khan University Karachi. This project happens to be one of the largest community-based cluster randomized trial of this nature in

Pakistan with enormous opportunities for training in research methodology, field surveillance, data collection and career development in epidemiology. Mr. Baloch has also

worked with Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO) Sindh-Pakistan.


http://www.cpjp.org/


Muhammad Arshed Rafiq

Designation: Communication Specialist

Organization The Urban Unit

Cohort: 2006-2007 - Cohort 12

Work Address: 4 B Lytton Road Lahore

Work Phone: 042 9923580-3

Work Fax: 042 99213585

E-mail: [email protected]

Profile

Mr. Arshed Rafiq is working as the communication specialist at The Urban Unit (P&D

department, Govt of Punjab). Prior to that, he worked with Cleaner Production Institute Lahore (www.cpi.org.pk) in the capacity of Communication Coordinator for the Dutch funded Programme for Industrial Sustainable Development where he was responsible for

the preparation and implementation of Communication plans and instruments, networking and institutional support activities with stakeholders. He also supervises the CSR team

which facilitate leading industries in Pakistan to generate CSR reports. Earlier he worked in the projects of Cleaner Technology Program for Textile Industry and

the EU funded project of Promoting Better Environmental Practices in Textile Processing Industry of Pakistan in 2005-06 as communication coordinator at NEC Consultants Lahore.

Mr. Arshed has also served as Cambridge English language teacher at DPS Lahore for seven years.

He has master degrees in English Literature and Public Administration, a diploma in French from Punjab University Lahore and a post graduate diploma from Maastricht School of

Management Netherlands.



Naokhaiz Iqbal Afaqui

Designation: Regional Manager RF planning

Organization: Warid Telecom (Pvt) Ltd

Cohort: Cohort 12


Profile

Naokhaiz Afaqui is currently working for Warid Telecom (Pvt.) Ltd. as Regional Manager RF

Planning. He has overall 8 years experience in the field of Telecommunications and Information Technology and has worked in organizations like Nortel, Mobilink and CET.

Technically, he is highly skilled in Radio Network design & optimization, BSS planning and commissioning and Transmission planning on GSM/GPRS/EDGE/WiMax technologies on

multiple vendor platforms (Ericsson, Huawei, Nortel, Motorola, and Alcatel). On managerial front he has overall 6 years experience of people management, project management, recruitment and selection, Talent management, succession planning and financial planning.

He holds a bachelors degree with Honors in Electronics and communications from UET Lahore, Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE, MCP+I) and MBA degree with Gold

medal in Finance and Project Management.


Suhail Ahmed Abro

Designation: Program Manager

Organization: Human Rights Education Forum Pakistan

Cohort : Cohort 12


Profile

Suhail Ahmed Abro has been working with the Human Rights Education Forum ever since

its inception in 2002. Initially he started his career with the HREF as a Research Officer where he was entrusted with the responsibilities of carrying out a study in Gender issues

focusing on the Honor Killings. Besides that, he assisted the organization in all its activities including documentation of cases of Honor killings, arrangement of seminars, preparation of monthly financial and narrative reports, undertaking any special assignments. In 2004,

his organization established working relations with the Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong, and started Urgent Appeal in collaboration with AHRC for the victims of Honor

Killings; and he was made the coordinator of the program, where he had to issue UAs to the authorities, which is still going on. In 2005, HREF widened its circle of activities and

started to work with the British Council, UNDP, SPARC, and FORUM-ASIA on different issues. Hence, he was made the Program Manager, in which capacity he is still working. In this capacity he has participated in a number of workshops, carried out by HREF, as one of

the resource persons. He developed a training kit on “Right-based Approach to the Development”.



Zia Ur- Rehman Hashmi

Designation CSO Contract Management Specialist

Organization United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Cohort : Cohort 12


Profile

Mr. Zia Hashmi is currently working with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). As a Program Officer on the project "Support to National Elections in Pakistan (SNEP)", Mr.

Hashmi is providing technical services in undertaking outsouring, developing M&E framework and assisting in designing capacity building initiatives for polling/election staff of

Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). Prior to joininhg UNDP, Mr. Hashmi worked for the Asian Development Bank (ADB),

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) etc. As a Civil Society & Legal Empowerment Specialist for ADB funded project "Access to Justice Program (AJP), Mr.

Hashmi was responsible for supporting civil society participation in the justice sector reforms initiated under AJP. While working with the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan (LJCP)as part of AJP implementation arrangements, he assisted LJCP in initiating

and fostering state-civil society linkages for legal empowerment and pro-poor advocacy under a $25 million statutory endowment. He has helped LJCP to create unprecedented

partnerships between the judiciary and civil society to promote legal empowerment in the remote districts of Pakistan. As part of Advisory Technical Assistance Team (ADTA) of ADB, Mr. Hashmi has also assisted the Federal Ministry of Law and the National Police Bureau in

mobilizing civil society organizations in connection with implementing ongoing nationwide justice sector reforms.

During his professional stint at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) as a Program Manager, he assisted Country Office Pakistan of NDI in conceiving,

designing and implementation of in-country democracy programs for NDI.

The rich experience in diverse areas of governance has progressively expanded Mr. Hashmi’s command over skills in project management and bolstered his professional

abilities to develop and implement capacity building and advocacy initiatives. Mr. Hashmi has also worked for the media and international civil society groups in the past

that has exposed him to national and international issues concerning development and social change. In particular, Mr. Hashmi worked for WaterAid International, Institute of

Strategic Studies and Public Grievances Cell of Prime Minister Secretariat as a research associate. Mr. Hashmi has been educated at the Quaid-e-Azam University. Politics, history, law and governance include his reading interests.



Dina Khan

Designation: Coordinator

Organization: LEAD Pakistan

Cohort: Cohort 12


Profile

Dina is coordinating the Asia region portfolio of technical assistance and research projects

as part of Climate Development Knowledge Network’s (CDKN) regional team. She has considerable experience with designing and managing programs on a range of development issues including education, vocational development, human rights and climate change. She

developed a pioneering Climate Action Program for LEAD Pakistan in 2008 offering for the first time a programmatic and multi-tiered approach on the issue in Pakistan, and also

facilitated the establishment of several LEAD climate change forums including the Knowledge Network on Climate Change (KNCC), Climate Leaders Action Network (CLAN) and National Alliance for Climate Action (NACA). She has been involved in climate change

scoping and strategy planning exercises at sub-regional levels, particularly in South and Central Asia.

Dina has worked on grass-roots issues with a leading community development organization in KPK and has also worked with the USAID funded Competitiveness Support Fund. She

holds an MBA from Pakistan and a Master’s degree in HR Management from Durham University, UK, and has undergone year long training on Sustainable Development as part

of the global Leadership Development Program (LDP) by LEAD.



Frida Khan

Designation: National Project Coordinator

Organization: ILO

Cohort: Cohort 12


Profile

Frida is currently working for the International Labour Office in Pakistan as the National

Project Coordinator for a project, Promoting Gender Equality for Decent Employment that aims to increase the understanding and practice of gender equality in the workplace.

She has worked for the Government of Pakistan for over fourteen years. Her last posting

was as Director at the National Vocational and Technical Education Commission, Prime Minister's Secretariat, Islamabad, where she worked on a number of initiatives including developing the National Skills Strategy and working with local and international partners in

developing and piloting the proposed reforms.

One of her most interesting professional experiences was (of course) the year she spent at LEAD Pakistan (2009 to 2010) working as Senior Research Analyst helping with proposal development and conducting a research project on entrepreneurship education and school

enterprises.

Frida has an MA in English Literature from Punjab University and an MSc in Development Administration & Planning from University College London, England.

She is married with two children. She enjoys reading, writing and travelling.



Mariam Khawaja

Designation: Staff Manager

Organization: Norwegian Refugee Council

Cohort: Cohort 12


Profile

Mariyam Khawaja is working with Norwegian Refugee Council as a staff manager since December, 2005. Before this she was doing research and advocacy for the issues related to

pharmaceutical sector regulation and identification of gaps. She says, the experience from project management to staff management has enhanced her skills, knowledge and

expertise and has also enlarged her vision and adaptability. She is a pharmacy graduate from University of Peshawar.



Ms. Rehana batool

Designation: Assistant Professor - Sardar Bahadur Khan Women

University

Organization: Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University

Work Phone: 092- 819213301-4

Work Fax: 0092-081-9213308



Profile

Ms. Rehana Batool is working as Assistant Professor at Sardar Bahadur Khan Women

University Quetta. Prior to that she has been associated with The Citizens Foundation as

Assistant Manager-Monitoring & Evaluation. Before joining TCF she worked for Aga Khan

Education Service Pakistan (AKESP) as Program Associate for Quaid project –Quality

Advancement through Institutional Development funded by ESRA – Education Sector

Reforms Assistance under USAID, which focused the sustainability development of low cost

private school of Karachi. Ms. Batool has also been teaching Science to the students of O

level at Beacon house School System and worked as Science coordinator. She has also

volunteered for PTAN (Professional Teachers Association Network). Batool is also associated

with Science Association of Pakistan (SAP) as an Executive Member and has been involved

in planning and organizing different program like training sessions and Science Olympiad

for students. She is also working as Editor for SAP Newsletter. I hold Masters Degree in

Biochemistry from University of Karachi. I was granted a fellowship for a short course in

“Programme & Project Management & Administration (Management Practices for

Development Practioned)” from the Netherlands Fellowship Programmes (NFP), funded by

the Netherlands Government.



Taiba Shaukat

Cohort: Cohort 12


Profile

Taiba is studying MSc Public Service Policy and Managment in King's College London. She is planning to specialize in Education/health policy after completing her course.

She worked with Bridgeway consulting as a manager Consulting. Previously she worked

with Sarhad University of science and IT as a Deputy director Admission Department. She had been working with Marie Stopes Society as a Field Coordinator. As a coordinator she

liaised with the Population Welfare Department and National Health of FP and PHC in providing reproductive health facilities to rural areas of NWFP. She has also arranged

trainings for the new staff in regional office of Marie Stopes Society, Peshawar. She participated in the Training of “VSC camp Monitoring and Scanning” arranged by Marie Stopes International (Bangladesh, Dhaka. She has also actively participated in social

welfare activities. She has participated in the relief activities in the earthquake areas with Government and non-governmental agencies.

MS. Taiba is an MBA degree holder with her majors in marketing.



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Ahmad Khan

Designation: Director Regional Programmes WWF

Organization: Regional Programmes Pakistan Wetlands Programme,

WWF Pakistan


Work Phone: 92-51-2114125-9

Cell Number: 0312 2304670


Profile

As Director Regional Programmes at PWP, Ahmad Khan is supervising wetlands management and poverty alleviation initiatives in the Makran Coast and in The Northern

Alpine Wetlands Complexes. He has also been supervising the alternate energy/renewable energy technologies at small scale introduction and promotion. Before this, he has worked

at several key positions with WWF Pakistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Wildlife Department since 1988. He holds a B.Sc in Forestry with distinction from the Pakistan Forest Institute and MS in Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development from the University of

Wisconsin at Madison, USA.

Currently he is pursuing his Ph.D in Human Geography at the Geographical Sciences Department of the University of Maryland, College Park, MD - USA.



Mukesh kumar

Designation: Manager Sales, Sindh

Organization: Small and Medium Enterprise Development

Authority (SMEDA)


Work Fax: 92-21-5610572


Web: http://www.smeda.org.pk

Profile

Mukesh is Management and Trade Consultant having expertise in the economic development for micro and SMEs enterprises, Women Entrepreneurship, Rural enterprises

Development, Agro-Processing Industries and International Trade. Mukesh is working as Manager, Sindh with SMEDA Karachi where he is responsible for SMEs development

Projects, sector development, cluster development initiatives and training programs in Sindh region. He is also a trainer and he has conducted trainings in the areas of Entrepreneurship, Business Planning and Small Business Management. He is also focal

person for Tameer (A joint program of SMEDA & SHELL) which supports young people entrepreneurship.

Mukesh has also worked in Lahore for one and half years with SMEDA where he initiated

“Cluster Development Program for SMEs” in collaboration with UNIDO. Under this program, diagnostic studies were conducted in more than 20 clusters in Punjab and Sindh and SMEs development projects were implemented. He He has also facilitated many entrepreneurs in

starting their businesses by preparing business plans and helping them getting finance from banks. He has been involved in SMEs financing schemes for SMEs sectors in Sindh and

Punjab.

Mukesh has done graduation in engineering from NED University Karachi, MBA from IBA Karachi and MS in Management Science from SZABIST Karachi. Mukesh has attended

training programs in USA, UK, Switzerland, Singapore, Korea, India and Australia in the fields of SMEs development, International Trade, cluster development and Entrepreneurship. He was selected by USA State Department for International Visitor

Leadership Program (IVLP). He has also won Australian Endeavor Executive Award and Charles Wallace Fellowship.

He has also written research reports on “Venture Capital industry in Pakistan: Issues and

Challenges”, “Comparison between SMEs support system in Australia and Pakistan”, “Issues and Challenges for Potential Women Entrepreneurs in Pakistan”, “Impact Assessment of Women Entrepreneurship Training".


http://www.smeda.org.pk/


Sahibzada Irfanullah Khan

Designation: Provincial Project Coordinator

Organization: Sustainable Land Management Project

(SLMP), NWFP Planning & Development

Department



Web: http://www.slmp.org.pk

Profile

Irfanullah Khan was born in a small town Serai Naurang, 40 km west of District Lakki

Marwat, NWFP. He matriculated from his native district school. Since 1990, he has been in Peshawar and Islamabad for education and job. He received his BSc and then MSc degrees

in Forestry from Pakistan Forest Institute, Peshawar during the period from 1993 to 1997. He was fortunate to grasp 3 gold medals and 2 silver medals during MSc Forestry course.

Immediately after completing his education, he joined the International Center for

Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in a research for development project entitled - the study of people and resource dynamic in the Hindu Kush - Himalayan region of Pakistan, India, Nepal and China, more commonly known as PARDYP. In Pakistan, they had

a working collaboration with Pakistan Forest Institute while our headquarter was based at Kathmandu. During a period from 1997 to 2002 at PARDYP-ICIMOD, he worked as leader of

the team to work on a variety of disciplines related to NRM including community development, gender equity, water resources, on-farm resources, social forestry, joint forest management, medicinal herbs etc.

In the year 2000, he was selected to represent Pakistan at the international conference on

community forestry in Chiang Mai, where he earned a second position out of 199 participants. In the same year he attended an international workshop on NRM Research and Policy at Bankok where he prepared the national work plan for initiating the Joint Forest

Management in Pakistan.

In 2002, he joined the Farm Forestry Support Project (FFP) of the SDC and Inter-Cooperation (IC) who were working for introducing improved farm forestry practices in the rain fed areas of NWFP. In January 2009 he joined the UNDP as Provincial Project

Coordinator for Sustainable Land Management Project to Combat Land Degradation and Desertification in arid regions of Pakistan. With this, he is happy to become a part of the

LEAD network where he can link his self to a great variety of projects, NGOs, organizations and individual professional from a wide professional background. He loves to network with others to get the opportunity for sharing.


http://www.slmp.org.pk/


Tariq Zaman Khan

Designation: Principal Staff Officer to DCO Lahore/ District

Officer Environment Lahore

Organization: City District Government Lahore

Cohort: Cohort 11

Address: DCO Office, District Courts, Lahore

Work Phone: 042- 99211008

Work Fax: 042-99211006




Sarah Qin Liyi

Designation: Operations Director

Organization: China Contact

Nationality: Chinese

Email:

[email protected]

Profile

QIN Liyi is just back to China searching for hands-on conservation and development work.

Previously Liyi was Programme Officer with Asia Regional Water and Wetlands Programme of the World Conservation Union (IUCN). Her focus was on water governance, in particular

environmental flows in Asia and multi-stakeholder participation in water-related decision-making. Liyi had a few years experience with academic institutions and the private sector prior to joining IUCN.

Her interests also include environmental law, sustainable tourism, livelihoods issues,

renewable energy, and gender and equity. Liyi holds an MA in Asia-Pacific Policy Studies from University of British Columbia and an

MBA in Management of Technology from Asian Institute of Technology.



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Dr. Muhammad suleman otho

Designation: Provincial Coordinator HASP-CIDA

Organization: Agri Team Canada


Work Phone: 92 21 4292147


Profile

Dr. Otho has been working since last 22 years in the field of medicine and public health. Dr.

Suleman Otho is currently working as Provincial Head of HIV and AIDS Surveillance project

of Sindh, prior to this He was the country head of a GFATM R-7 Project in Islamabad , he

was deputy director planning before that and was serving as Senior Registrar at Civil

hospital Karachi for last three years before that. He joined the Health Department after

doing his MBBS in 1992 through the Public Services Commission. In 1994 he acquired a

degree of MCPS (chest medicine) and subsequently passed the Public Services Commission

for higher grade (BPS-18) to become a chest specialist in the same department.

He acquired a master's of public health from University of Wollongong, Australia in 1999-

2000. August 2001, Dr Otho has been working in administration of City District

Government Karachi. Dr Otho played a key role in the establishment of departmental

changes and the merger of KMC, DMC and the local council to create one integrated health

system for Karachi city. He is running major programs for tuberculosis prevention

treatment and also in charge of the District Health Development Centre for Karachi. for last

three years he is working in civil hospital Karachi, his work has been varied in nature he

has headed the chest department and also planning and development department as well.

he also worked as epidemiologist in cancer department as. In the mean while he has

conveyed two surveillance projects of CIDA for HIV and its prevalence in four major cities

of Sindh including Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur and Larkana. He was selected for a recent

course at university of Alabama for USA in leadership, and HIV and Tuberculosis

coinfection.



Dr. Rajapakse ratnayake mudiyanselage channa nalin bandara

bambaradeniya

Designation: Head

Organization: Ecosystems Management Programme (IUCN) IUCN –

The World Conservation Union


Work Phone: 94 16 94094

Work Fax: 94 16 82470


Profile

Dr Rajapakse Ratnayake Mudiyanselage Channa Nalin Bandara Bambaradeniya is the Head

of Ecosystems Management Program at IUCN Sri Lanka country office. His responsibilities include planning and implementing projects related to ecosystem management, and facilitating relevant government agencies in formulating and implementing plans pertaining

to environmental conservation.

He is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and the Wildlife Training Institute, where he teaches wetland ecology, biodiversity assessment techniques,

and management of threatened species to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Before this, Dr Bambaradeniya worked as a Demonstrator in the Department of Peradeniya. As a result, the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka awarded him a research grant for

his postgraduate research work. He has over eight years of experience in environment and biodiversity conservation and has over fifty research publications to his credit. Dr

Bambaradeniya has a PhD degree in Rice Field Ecology and Biodiversity from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.



Rukhsana Majid

Designation: Head of Department

Organization: Community Medicine Bolan Medical College Quetta



Profile

Rukhsana Majid specialized in public health having completed a MCPS and FCPS in the

same area. She started her career as a demonstrator in the Department of Community Medicine in Rawalpindi Medical College. She then attended the College of Community Medicine Lahore for postgraduate studies.

Ms Majid joined the Department of Community Medicine, Bolan Medical College as an Assistant Professor. The department of Community Medicine was upgraded to the status of Institute of Public Health in 1997. She worked as a Social Development consultant with the

DFID for two years. Later she assumed the charge of Director of the Institute of Public Health in June 2002.

Her current responsibilities include; teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical

students, conducting research into various problems of public health importance, arranging and conducting training workshops on different topics of social sciences and public health.



Ahmad Mohamad Hosney Radwan


Organization: Helwan University- College of Fine Arts



Profile

Radwan, Ahmed Hosney is an Egyptian Architect. He is currently an Assistant Professor of

Architecture at the Department of Architecture,College of Fine Arts, Helwan University where he has been teaching various courses since 1994. He is also an Adjunct Professor at

the Architectural Department , College of Engineering Sciences, At Misr International University(MIU), since 2007.In 2008 He joined the Construction and Architectural Engineering Department at the American University in Cairo, where he works there as an

Adjunct Assistant Professor.

Dr. Radwan Finished his PHD thesis titled 'Participatory design towards the development of Egyptian village architecture'. His research projects were mainly concerned with rural development in Egypt,community participation in housing design and planning. He has also

worked on several commercial and residential projects as an Architectural Consultant and planner.

Dr. Radwan holds also a Masters Degree in Architecture from the College of Fine Arts, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.

After Attending Four regional Trainning sessions in Pakistan , two international trainning

sessions in Mexico and Uk , and a midterm trainning Session in the Asian intstitute of Technology AIT, Bangcok, Thailand he was graduated in April 2004 from the Imperial College of London , Wye , Kent ,United Kingdom as a LEAD Fellow of the tenth Cohort.

Dr. Radwan is now a Practicing Architect, & planner ,he has a Private consultancy

institution , where he works in several projects in Egypt & Some Arabian Countries, like Sudan , UAE ,KSA ...etc



Amjad Zafar Khan

Designation: Social Protection Specialist

Organization: Social Protection Unit, The World Bank


Work Phone: 051-9090136

Work Fax: 92 51 2651512


Profile

Mr. Khan is working as Social Protection Specialist at The world Bank. Prior to that he

worked in the capacity of manager responsible for Education Program and information technologies at LEAD Pakistan. In this capacity, he is responsible for the management of Education Program Area and develops and manages Education related projects. Mr Khan

has over eight years experience of financial and operational management in private and autonomous government corporations. During that time, he assisted in policy formulation,

planning and operational management of the public sector, specifically in the area of macroeconomic modelling.

Mr. Khan holds an MBA from Quaid-e-Azam University, a postgraduate diploma in computer based development planning techniques (DPT) from the Institute of Social Studies (ISS),

The Hague, Netherlands, and bachelors in economics, statistics and mathematics from the University of Punjab.



Asadullah Khan Sumbal

Designation: Economist (Public Finance), CWFM/CWRD

Organization: Asian Development Bank (ADB)


Work Phone: +63 2 632 6259


Web: http://www.adb.org

Profile

Asad Sumbal is now working in the Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines. Hw is

looking after public financial management issues in the Central and West Asia region. With

projects and programs in Armenia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Pakistan, Asad frequently travels and meets with government officials in these countries.

Before joining here he was working as the Project Coordinator of a Technical Assistance

Grant of ADB to the Punjab Government for structural reforms in a comprehensive development framework. This deals with fiscal and financial management reform, poverty

focussed initiatives, procurement reform and general reforms across the board leading to good governance and poverty reduction. He is responsible for developing TORs, monitoring and supervising consultants and reviewing outputs as well as coordination between various

government organizations related to the TA activities. Currently Asad is working with ADB on deputation from Government of Pakistan.

Asad is a career public servant with a mix of policy development as well as implementation experience. He has served as Assistant Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner, and Deputy

Secretary to Chief Minister, Project Director of Education Program, Deputy and Additional Secretary Finance as well as National Coordinator on Child Rights with UNICEF Pakistan

with the mandate to assist the Ministry of Women Development and Social Welfare to prepare for the UN General Assembly Special Session on Children in May 2002. He is interested in issues of governance, health, education, gender and poverty alleviation. Asad

is a planner by training and holds a masters in regional planning form University of North Carolina and masters of english from Government College Lahore.


http://www.adb.org/


Chaudhry Ehsan Sadiq

Designation: National Police and Public Safety Reforms Specialist

Organization: Access to Justice Program


Work Phone: 92 51 9100070

Work Fax: 92 51 9100064


Profile

Mr Sadiq is presently working as Assistant Inspector General of Police, (Operations) in

Islamabad Police. He had earlier served as AIG/Establishment, SP/Investigation and

SP/Diplomatic Security in Islamabad Police. He also served as District Police Officer, Okara in 2008. He was engaged by Asian Development Bank as Police Reforms Specialist during 2006-08. He has also worked as a Human Rights Officer with the United Nations Civilian

Police Mission in Bosnia.

Mr. Sadiq has extensively worked on issues relating to Human, Gender, Child Rights and

Environmental Protection. He has written a book on “Violence against Women and Police Response” and a number of articles relating to these issues. His special interest is

transformation of police culture and police reforms.

Mr. Sadiq holds a Masters degree in Public Service Management from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, and another in Pakistan Studies from Quaid-i-Azam

University, Islamabad.



Jahanghir Piracha

Designation: Human resource Manager

Organization: Engro Chemical Pakistan Ltd.


Work Phone: 92 021 35611667

Work Fax: 92 021 35611690


Web: http://www.engro.com

Profile

Jahangir Piracha is working with Engro Corporation Ltd as Human Resource Manager. Prior

key assignments have been; Production Manager of a Fertilizer Plant, Health, Safety and Environment Manager. He has exposure to management of large industrial complexes,

project development and understanding of HSE matters.

Jahangir has 21 years of corporate sector experience. He received his bachelors' degree in chemical engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.


http://www.engro.com/


Khalid Sherdil

Designation Director General PDMA, Punjab

Organization Govt. of Punjab

Phone: 0312-447-4444, +1(519)639-8800



Profile

As Director General for the Provincial Disaster Management Authority, Punjab. Khalid

Sherdil worked on Pakistan's largest ever disaster, the Super Floods of 2010. Khalid has

worked on seven major disasters, including the Turkish Earthquake 2011, Sindh Floods

2011, Balochistan Floods 2012 and the Sialkot Tornado 2011. Besides Dengue, Sherdil has

also written a technical report for Ontario Government through Western University on West

Nile virus, another mosquito vector epidemic.

Sherdil was the Project Director of the Model Villages Project ($20 million), in which 22

villages equipped with schools, technical training centers, dispensaries, parks, solar

electricity, bio-gas, etc., were constructed from scratch all over Punjab's Flood areas. He

also led the project for disbursement of flood-damage compensation ($ 325 million in form

of debit cards) to over 1 million flood-affected families of Punjab. He is a member of

Pakistan's Core Committee for Environment and Climate Change, and has represented the

country at COP 16 Cancun, Mexico.

Khalid Sherdil is currently residing at Manhattan, New York, and London, Ontario, where he

is collaborating with Software Industry towards obtaining a Doctoral degree in Computer

and Environmental Science at the Western University, Canada. His research interests are in

Early Warning in Complex Adaptive Systems in Cloud Computing and in applications of

technology to environment & sustainable development. He has twelve research

publications. Khalid also worked for two years with Royal Bank of Scotland’s Sempra

Energy/Commodity Trading at Stamford, USA, where he worked on quantitative analysis of

trading data, and architected a real-time Energy Trading Risk Management System. Prior to

that he worked with I.T. firm Sapient at Manhattan: he was Consultant with Tullet Prebon

on their Wall Street based high frequency Algorithmic Financial Trading system; Louis

Dreyfus, on their Energy Risk Management system; and Citadel, a Hedge Fund in Chicago.

Khalid has served as the Deputy Secretary for Agriculture Department, and for Information

Technology Department, Government of Pakistan. He was responsible for executing e-

Governance projects and implementing the government's IT policy on education & public



services delivery. He has also conducted Government projects on Organic Farming, and

supplemented them with experiments at his family farm. His interest in Agriculture arises

from his family farm where he cultivates wheat & rice in addition to Bio-Fuels.

Earlier, he served as Assistant Commissioner of Murree and Lahore Cantt. As the

Administrator of the Municipal Committee Murree, he dealt with complex issues such as

forest conservation, fire protection, land slide prevention, clearance of snow, mountain

traffic management, water supply, tourism promotion, building construction control, wildlife

protection, and solid waste management. At Lahore Metropolis, he handled management of

urban affairs.

As a researcher in social issues as well as IT, he has authored tweleve publications in

journals and international conferences. These include a scientific empirical survey and

analysis on the menace of beggary, and a case study on the Garhi Shahu gas leakage

disaster. He also runs Pakistan’s largest arts website www.ArtsPak.com and is a Fellow of

LEAD International UK. He is author of a book titled "Dengue: Prevention & Control. The

Lahore Model of Success" which is available at Amazon. He is currently co-authoring a

photographic book on the Rural life of Punjab.


Masroor Ahmad

Designation: Water and Sanitation Specialist

Organization: The World Bank



Profile

Mr. Ahmad is working with Water and Sanitation Program - South Asia in Pakistan office.

The program is based in World Bank Pakistan. Mr. Ahmad is responsible to support and

strengthen Local Government system with particular emphasis on devolved municipal services. He is responsible to assist World Bank and WSP initiatives in water and sanitation sector in Pakistan.

Prior to Joining WSP-SA Mr. Ahmad worked as Capacity Development Specialist with Asian

Development Bank on Decentralization Support Program. He was mainly responsible to asess the capacity needs of Local Governments and conceive investment plans to improve service delivery and for strengthening of LG system in Pakistan.

Mr Ahmad has worked as Team Leader of WESNet (Water, Environment and Sanitation

Network) in NWFP Province of Pakistan. WESNet, funded by UNICEF and provincial government, was mainly working to develop network of water and sanitation services provider in public and private sector. The network also assisted the provincial government

in providing technical backstopping and support to municipal devolved structure - Tehsil/Town Municipal Administration in the province. Ther network promoted the culture of

lateral learning and experience sharing leading to effective utilization of resources.

Mr. Ahmad has worked in governance, institutional management and institutional analysis sectors for Asian development Bank, World Bank and DfID in Pakistan recently.

He has 13 years experience in governanace, environment and Water and environmental sanitation sectors. He has expertise in proposal develoopment, project implementation,

various surveys (baseline, situation analysis, KAP, MIS, CIS etc) and Monitoring & evaluation. He has also carried out various short term assignmments for international and nationl organizations in past in development sectors. Mr Ahmad has worked previously with

Italian emergency organization on water & sanitation projects in refugee camps during 2001-2002. Earlier, Mr Ahmad served as National Project Officer - Water and

Environmental Sanitation at UNICEF, Islamabad. He has also served at the United States embassy in Pakistan as a project engineer and with UNHCR as consultant.

Mr Ahmad holds a bachelors degree in civil engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar and a master's degree in water and environmental management

for Developing Countries, from WEDC Loughborough University, United Kingdom.



Muhammad Sualeh Faruqui

Designation: Secretary - Information Technology

Organization: Government of Sindh


Work Phone: 021-99211421

Work Fax: 021- 99211414


Profile

Muhammad Sualeh Faruqui is Secretary of the Sindh Local Government Board in Karachi.

He is responsible for the management of provincial cadres of local departments and the management of the transition / devolution in municipal sphere. He is also coordinating capacity building initiatives and restructuring of local government and Rural Development

Academy.

As a federal civil servant belonging to District Management Group (DMG), he has also had the opportunity of serving as the Deputy Commissioner and Director of Protocol in Karachi, Pakistan and as Assistant Commissioner of Rural and urban sub divisions in province of

Punjab. The major focus of his experience and interest has been the community driven development initiatives and preservation of environment, upgradation of municipal services

and resource generation for sustainable development. Faruqui was awarded the Chevening scholarship in social development. He also has a master's in physiology from University of Karachi.



Nazakat Hussain

Designation: Engineer

Organization: WAPDA


Work Address:

WAPDA

Office of GM hydro Planning, WAPDA Sunny View

Kashmir Road Lahore

Lahore Punjab Pakistan

Work Phone: 92 42 6368773-4


Profile

Nazakat Hussain is an environmental engineer with WAPDA. At the moment, he is supervising engineering studies of Phandar 80MW, Basho 28MW, Hapro 33MW and Patan

Hydropower Project 2800MW. He is responsible for environmental impact assessments (EIA) feasibility reports of hydropower projects carried out by the Water and Power

Development Authority Pakistan. Presently he has completed EIA of Bunji Dam Project with consultants in Gilgit Northern Areas. He has also held the positions of dam engineer on the Terbela Dam project and supervised construction of 4MW hydel power station at Kargah,

Gilgit.

Mr Hussain is particularly interested in environment, renewable energy, and health and water resource projects. He is Civil Engineer with masters in environment from IHE Deft

Netherlands and masters in civil engineering UET, Lahore, Pakistan. He has completed EIA studies on number of hydropower projects in northern areas, Punjab, NWFP and in Sind Province. He also completed feasibility reports of various high head hydropower projects.



Shafqat Iqbal

Designation: Principal

Organization: Bright Vision Model College


Work Phone: 92 995 613405


Web: http://www.bvmc.edu.pk

Profile

Mr. Shafqat Iqbal is an educationist by profession. He also works as a trainer. He manages

Bright Vision Model College as principal. This is one of his own initiatives. He earned two master's degrees, one in English literature and the other in education. He is also an M. Phil Scholar in the field education. Mr. Iqbal also volunteers as chairman board of directors of

an NGO named Rural Development Project working in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.


http://www.bvmc.edu.pk/


Shahid Ali Lutfi


Organization: Environmental Management Consultants (EMC)


Work Phone: 021-34303636, 34303165-67

Work Fax: 021-34304426

Email: [email protected],

[email protected]

Profile

Shahid Ali Lutfi is a qualified engineer with a vast vision of environmental engineering and

an ample experience in the field of environment. He is currently working as as Short Term Consultant (STC) with World Bank Group on various projects. His assignments include assistance in projects appraisals, performance evaluation, development of Environmental

and Social Management Frameworks (ESMF); review and evaluation of EMPs; development of Action Plans; review of environmental assessments documents and approval conditions

and their implementation status; review of performance of the contractor and supervision consultants for implementation projects; etc. In addition Shahid is awarded a position of

Honorary Faculty Member at Community Health Sciences Department, Aga Khan Medical University Hospital, Karachi where his areas of focus are environmental and occupational health, exposure assessments, industrial hygiene, and legislation specific to EOH and OHS

management system.

Shahid possesses extensive knowledge of urban pollution issues. He is an active participant

of major pollution control programmes. He has carried out monitoring and inspection of various industries, warehouse, recreational places and agricultural fields for investigation for the sources of pollution and their impact on environment.

He possesses adequate experience of environmental audit and environmental assessments.

He also holds extensive experience of laboratory work and has completed a short course in computerized controlling of laboratory equipment from Perkin Elmer, USA. He has been involved in research activities with esteemed professors of Georgia Institute of Technology,

USA. He also delivers lectures and presentations at seminars and workshops on environmental legislation, pollution control techniques and environmental issues. He is a

member of several national and international associations.


Zahoor Ahmad Bazai

Designation: Director, FTDC/Assistant Professor in Botany

Organization: University of Balochistan

Work Phone: 0092-81-9211690

Work Fax: 0092-81-9211277


Profile

Mr. Zahoor Ahmad Bazai is currently working as Director FTDC/Regular Faculty with

University of Balochistan., an independent consultant and an Environmental Biologist.

He has worked with international development agencies, such as UNDP, FAO, WWF and the

local NGO’s like SCSPEB and SCAMB in their participatory development projects. His work is

mostly related to participatory rural and urban development, research for need

assessment, planning, environmental teaching and training and general management

aspects of multi-disciplinary integrated projects.

He has been involved in conducting training programs concerning Participatory Rural

Appraisal (PRA), Education/Environmental E, Environment, Natural Resource Management

(NRM), Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Research methodologies and Community

mobilization.

He is a Ph.D. Scholar (Dissertation submitted) and holds the M. Phil in water pollution, M.Sc

in Botany and B.Sc in Forestry. He is the author of 28 national and international Scientific

research publications and participated in Environmental training sessions in United States

of America (USA), Germany, Mexico, Nepal, Thailand and India.



Piyathip Eawpanich

Designation: Program Officer

Organisation: IUCN Thailand


Work Phone: 66 22 6624061-4


Profile

Piyathip Eawpanich is a Program Officer in IUCN Thailand. Her responsibilities include;

contacting government agencies, IUCN Thai members, partners, press, and government

agencies. She is also responsible for facilitating, implementing, and reporting on IUCN projects in Thailand, for example, ForestPACT, Legal study on timber

trade in lower Mekong Countries, protected areas and economic development in lower Mekong Countries.

Ms Eawpanich also handles estimating, spending, and reporting on the project budget. Ms Eawpanich participates and represents IUCN at relevant workshops and meetings both in

Thailand and other countries. She holds a master's in outdoor recreation natural resources management from Utah University, United States.



Rana El-Akhal Khaleel

Designation: CEO

Organization: Jordon Forum for Business and Professional Women


Work Phone: 00962 777 656 014


Profile

Dr. Rana El Akhal is the General Manager and Co-owner of Al Wisam Consultancy

Company. A consultancy firm that aims at providing strategic planning, institutional reform and development specialized consultancies and training through a team of 14 local and international trainers and consultants. In addition to the previous post, she is the Strategic

Planning Advisor for the Minister of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research since April 2004. Late 2004, Ms. Akhal was awarded an honorary PhD degree from Oxford

College for PhD Studies for her contribution to the economic development, through producing an analytical quantitative report about the garment sector's exports in Jordan. Prior to establishing her enterprise, she held the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) post (June

2005 - June 2007) for the Jordan Forum for Business and Professional Women (JFBPW) where she lead the organization through a complete reform, branding and

institutionalization development process which yield with the JFBPW being awarded the "Mark of Best Practice Award" An award that is supported by USAID and managed by King

Abdullah II Center for Excellence. Before joining the JFBPW as its CEO, she worked as a freelance consultant and trainer in the fields of strategies and management locally and regionally and before that she held the post of National Expert to develop the first national

youth policy and strategy of Jordan. A Project that was co managed by; UNDP – country office, Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation and National Youth Council

Memberships and Awards: - LEAD Fellow Cohort 10

- Member in the Jordan Forum for Business and Professional Women - A permanent member in both; the EU - Arab States Economic Interest Grouping and the

European Arab Business and Fellowship Foundation. - Recipient of the VIP business award from the Oxford College for PhD Studies and Royal College for Professional Technology.

- Recipient of a Certificate of Appreciation from the Economic Industrial Network



Ms. Rina Saeed Khan

Designation: Freelance Journalist/Communications Consultant



Profile

Rina Saeed Khan is an award winning development journalist and communications

consultant based in Islamabad. She writes extensively about climate change and won the

Earth Journalism Award in Copenhagen for her report on climate change impacts on Pakistan's coastal areas. She is currently working as a consultant for LEAD-Pakistan and Pakistan Wetlands Programme. She is also writing a bi monthly column on the environment

for DAWN, Pakistan's largest English daily, as well as contributing features to Reuters Alert Net and the Guardian's Global Development website.

Previously she was features editor at the Friday Times at which time she published her first book, entitled 'Profiles' (Vanguard Publications, 1997). She was also part of the team that

has researched and written the book entitled 'Green Pioneers' (Citi Press 2003). She is currently co-authoring a book on Pakistan's water bodies entitled 'Water in the Wilderness'

and imparting training on climate change for local journalists.



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Dr. Ali ahmad jan


Organization: Sustainable Solutions (Pvt) Ltd

Work Phone: 03005355318



[email protected]

Profile

Ali Ahmad Jan holds masters degree in Economics with additional post graduation in Mass

Communications, and Graduation in Law. Mr. Jan is Founder and Director of Sustainable

Solutions (Private) Limited (SSPL) based in Islamabad, Pakistan. SSPL is a consultancy

Firm working for sustainable development especially community based and innovative

initiatives. As Director of the company Mr. Jan leads a team of consultants and expertise in

delivery of promised services.

Mr. Jan has been working in various capacities and fields including programme

development, management, monitoring and evaluation as well as capacity building since

1993. Currently he is working on planning, implementation and Monitoring and Evaluation

of Social Safeguards Policies of International Financial Institutions like World Bank (WB)

and Asian Development Bank (ADB) as External Resettlement Specialist in Pakistan and

aboard. He has also contributed in LEAD Pakistan as Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

and was part of the team which implemented the Democratized Education Management &

Ownership (DEMO) project was funded by United States Agency for International

Development (USAID) under its Education Sector Reforms Assistance (ESRA)Program . His

association with World Wide Fund For Nature – Pakistan (WWF – P) as Project Development

Officer and then Project Manager of the Northern Areas Conservation Project earned

experience in Integrated Conservation and Development (ICD) approaches and

participatory conservation by involving stakeholders and local people in the process. He has

also worked on the concepts and approaches like Free Market Environmentalism (FME),

Payment for Environmental Services (PES) and Community Managed Protected Areas

(CMPAs) on sharing benefits and responsibilities with custodian communities. Before

working with national and International Organizations Mr. Jan served in prestigious civil

services of Government of Pakistan for 7 years time period .

Apart from fellowship with LEAD Mr. Jan is Fellow of Kinship Conservation Institute (KCI),

Chicago USA, Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), Bozeman, Montana, USA


and Mahanirban Research Group, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He is certified practitioner of

AT Kissan Accelerator Tools in Pakistan. Mr. Jan has written a number of papers project

proposals, project strategies, concept papers and evaluation reports. He has participated

and contributed in international conferences and workshops on various themes including

Social resettlement, community development, environmental, development, global

warming, climate change, conflict and peace etc. His hobbies include trekking & hiking,

photography and social networking.


Dr. Muhammad Pervaz

Designation: Program Leader, Technology Transfer

Organization: Technology Transfer Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan, `

SAARC Energy Centre


Work Phone: 92 51 2222185

Work Fax: 92 51 2221937


Web: http://www.saarcenergy.org

Profile

Dr. Muhammad Pervaz was born 31 December 1962 in Abbottabad, Pakistan. He has a

Ph.D in Chemistry with a specialization in petroleum geochemistry from Quaid-I-Azam

University in collaboration with the Technical University of Aachen, Germany. He holds an

M.Phil degree with a specialization in analytical and inorganic chemistry from Quaid-I-Azam

University, Islamabad, and M.SC Chemistry with specialization in Analytical Chemistry from

the University of Peshawar. He was a visiting scientist on a post-doctoral research project

in the field of marine geochemistry at the Federal Institute of Geo-Sciences and Natural

Resources (BGR), Hannover, Germany

In September 2007, Dr. Pervaz joined the newly established SAARC Energy Centre (SEC),

Islamabad, Pakistan as a Programme Leader, Technology Transfer. In SEC he is responsible

for implementation of energy technologies transfer and sharing of best practices in South

Asia. Previously he was working as Principal Scientific Officer in the Hydrocarbon

Development Institute of Pakistan (HDIP) since 1988 in various capacities. In HDIP he was

responsible for research and Development activities in petroleum geochemistry and

environmental monitoring. His experience has focused on the establishment of analytical

laboratories, planning and executing research and development projects for petroleum

source rock, and environmental studies. In July 2000 He was posted in HDIP Head Office

Islamabad and he was actively involved in technical and policy research in energy and

environment nexus and international energy cooperation. His experience at the HDIP also

includes the maintenance and management of organization's website.

Present and past professional affiliation includes, the New York Academy of Sciences,

European Association of Organic Geo-chemists (EAOG), Pakistan Association of Petroleum

Geoscientists (PAPG) and Fellow, The Chemical Society of Pakistan, Corporate Member Sri

Lanka Energy Manager Association (SLEMA), Life Member Society of Asian Civilizations,

Islamabad, Fellow of Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD). He has visited



many countries and participated in several National and International seminars,

conferences, workshops, official meetings including SAARC and UNESCAP Energy Expert

Groups and training courses related to the environment, energy, regional and international

energy cooperation, chemical safety, chemistry and geochemistry. He has more than 60

research publications to his credit and several technical institutional reports, including a

chapter in the book Geology, Geo-chemistry and Composition of Oil Shales, published by

Kluwer Academics, Dordrecht, The Netherlands and Co-author of Paper in published by

Geological Society, London, Special Publications (2002), 195, 445-461 on Discovery of the

Toba Ash (c.70 ka) in a High-resolution Core Recovering Millennial Monsoonal Variability

OFF Pakistan. In: The Tectonic and Climatic Evolution of the Arabian Sea Region. He is also

experienced in computer and energy database management. Presently, he is actively

involved in the development and promotion of renewable energy technologies and energy

policy research in South Asia.


Abdul Rahim Changezi

Designation: Lecturer

Organization: Social Work Department University of

Baluchistan


Work Phone: 9211239

Work Fax: 92117788


Profile

Mr. Changezi is Assistant Professor in Social Work, University of Balochistan, Quetta.

Presently registered for Ph.D and the title of his research topic is "civil society empowerment, issues and challenges (a case study of Balochistan) Apart from formal classroom teaching and research supervision, he has been conducting training sessions on

various topics for staff and target communities of major NGOs operating in the province.He has also been conducting research studies for NGOs.

Formerly he headed the Consumer Mobilization Unit at the Network for Consumer Protection, Islamabad. Earlier he worked with the Quetta Katchi Abadis Environmental

Management Program (QKAEMP) as Team Leader of one of its six implementing partners, the Society for Environmental Awareness. QKAEMP is a low cost, community based, cost

sharing project, designed to improve environmental sanitation conditions in Quetta's slums through active community participation. Earlier Mr Changezi worked as Program

Coordinator for the Drug Demand Reduction Project Balochistan, which was jointly funded by Oxfam and the European Union. He started his career as Trainer, Human Resource Development with the Balochistan Rural Support Program (BRSP), Quetta, where he

worked on staff training and organization development. He has organized and conducted numerous training workshops for different NGOs in areas such as interpersonal

communication, motivation, teamwork and assertiveness, and Logical Framework Analysis. He has also written articles for local newspapers and journals. Two of his articles on nuclear testing and its adverse effects on the masses have been translated into Japanese. Mr

Changezi has a M.Phil degree in Social Work from the University of Balochistan.



Amjad Shaikh

Designation: Health Safety and Environmental Team Leader

Organization: Petrofac International


Work Phone: +97165073 315


Profile

Mr. Amjad Shaikh has done MS in Environmental Engineering from Wayne State University,

Michigan USA. For over 15 years he has worked with Oil and Gas companies in Pakistan, UK, Azerbaijan

and UAE. He worked in BP, on of the major oil and gas Production Company for 10 years and currently working with Petrofac offshore Engineering Group in Sharjah UAE.

In Pakistan he provides technical support to a leading NGO Mashriq Foundation, which is

engaged in Hospital Waste and Waste Management projects.



Khalid Mahmood

Designation: Staff Officer to DG FIA

Organization: FIA



Profile

Mr. Mahmood is Additional Superintendent of Police (SP) in Islamabad Capital Territory and has a large portfolio of responsibilities. As Additional SP Aiwan-e-Sadr (President's

Residence), he is responsible for protecting the President of Pakistan and the premises he resides in. As Additional SP, he supervises all the police stations of Islamabad and as SPTraffic, he is responsible for ensuring the smooth flow of traffic and checking all traffic

violations. He also works in coordination with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Citizens Traffic Committee, and the Association of Road Users of Pakistan to check smoke

emitting vehicles. He previously worked as a structural engineer in NESPAK and designed a compressor house for PAEC. He also worked as Sub Divisional Officer in the Highway Department and supervised the overlay of Canal Bank Road in Lahore. Mr Mahmood is an

avid outdoorsman and was awarded the Koh Paima (a mountain climbing award) for successfully climbing Arif Post (approximately 20,000 ft) at Siachin on the Indo-Pak border.

He holds a Masters in Human Resource Management from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom and a Bachelors in Civil Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore.



Khalid Rasul

Designation: Programme Officer

Organization : United Nations World Food Programme


Work Phone: +92 91 5846315 -20

Work Fax: +92 91 5846324


Web: http://www.wfp.org/

Profile

He has protracted experience working for Humanitarian Agencies and performed for UN-WFP, FAO-UN, CRS, UNDP, AKRSP, SDC-IC, DEFID, IRC, CAB-International, LEAD-

International and Government of Pakistan.

During service tenure, he rolled and mould in a multicultural and multidimensional environment. He has good exposure and experience in Humanitarian Emergency response, UN - Cluster Coordination, NRM operations, Community Development, Livelihoods, Project

management, linkage development and training programs. Currently he is working as Programme Officer for United Nations World Food Programme,

implanting early recovery projects in the Crisis Affected areas of Pakistan.


http://www.wfp.org/


Mohammad Mujib Khan


Work Phone: +44 7536 110 901


Profile

Mr. Khan is broadly accomplished professional with 20 years of experience comprising, (i)

extensive hands-on public sector management, (ii) public sector reform design consulting, and (iii) public sector reform implementation consulting. He has provided management and

governance leadership in public, multilateral, and non-government sectors, across areas marked with complex political, social, and military conflict. Expertise in public policy, governance and institutional development in the arenas of public financial management,

civil service reforms, private sector development, justice sector management, urban development, anticorruption, agriculture/rural development, health, education and

environment.



Muhammad Javed Cheema

Designation: Senior Manager

Organization : Descon Integrated Projects Ltd.


Work Phone: 3 599 0034 (ext. 842)

Work Fax: 92 42 5811135

Cell Number: 0302 845 8459

Profile

Mr. Javed Cheema is working as environmental engineer, after the masters in

environmental engineering from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand in April 1993. Currently he is working with Descon Engineering since January 2006, in the department of

environmental engineering. His prime responsibilities are coordination with client at the tender stage, preparation of technical and commercial proposals on EPC (engineering,

procurement and construction) basis and process design of water and wastewater treatment projects.


Web: http://www.descon.com.pk


http://www.descon.com.pk/


Muhammad Shahid Shahbaz

Designation: Senior General Manager

Organization: Colony Textile Mills ltd


Work Address: Colony Textile Mills ltd,

Ismailabad ,Multan

Work Phone: +92 61 111265669


Profile

Mr. Shahbaz is presently working as Senior General Manager at Colony Textile Mills. Prior

to this he worked as Assit. Vice president at Crescent Textile Mills Faisalabad, where his

duties include: product planning and management; heading the balancing, modernization, and replacement plans (BMR) of spinning units; and future projects. His efforts in the BMR projects have led to improved environment and productivity in many sections of the mills.

His experience in the textile industry to date comprises administration, project planning, machinery selection and installation. He received his training and initial experience in Kohi

Noor, Crescent and Ibrahim Textile Mills. In 1992 he was selected as best student of the year from Pakistan by Rieter Spinning Systems of Switzerland, a leading textile machinery manufacturer of Europe. Having participated in a number of technical courses, Mr Shahbaz

has also worked on the documentation, implementation, and certification of ISO 9001 quality management systems as well as ISO 14001 at Crescent and he is an internal

auditor of ISO quality systems. He has successfully completed the six sigma expert (Black belt) training and has been nominated as master black belt in his company. Mr. Shahbaz feels that LEAD is a platform for him to broaden his knowledge. He also thinks that the

LEAD training will further strengthen his communication and interpersonal skills and give him an opportunity to share his experiences with others. Mr. Shahbaz earned his MBA from

the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. He has done BSc. (Hons) in Textile Engineering from National College Of Textile Engineering Faisalabad (U.E.T. Lahore).


Sajjad Haider Rizvi


Organization: Indus Foundation for Human Development


Work Phone: 92 42 35434055-56

Work Fax: 92 42 3585 6423


Web: http://www.indusfoundation.org.pk

Profile

Mr. Sajjad Haider Rizvi, Executive Director of Indus Foundation for Human Development specializes in Capacity Building, Project Management and Community Development in the

areas of Education, Sustainable Development, Youth Development and Resource Mobilization. He holds Master degree in Administrative Sciences supported by his

Commerce and Law degrees from University of the Punjab. He is Fellow of ICSP and LEAD International and serves as board/executive member of leading civic society organizations. Professionally he has trained over 30000 individuals and has worked for UN system and

leading public and private sector organizations.

Mr. Rizvi is also serving as Project Coordinator of Young Leadership Development Project (a youth development initiative of Indus Foundation). He is also certified trainer & Zonal Coordinator of the IAA. He serves as board member of many civic society organizations and

is co-author of two books "how to become a professional teacher" and "environmental education for teachers".


http://www.indusfoundation.org.pk/


Saleem Ullah

Designation: Programme Officer

Organization: UNDP


Work Phone: 092 051-8355644

Work Fax: 092 051 -2655015

Email: [email protected] ; [email protected]

Web: http://un.org.pk/undp

Profile

Mr. Saleem Ullah is working as Programme Officer in UNDO.prior to that he held the

position of National Project Coordinator for Enviornmental Recovery Programme at United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Islamabad. Preiously he worked as Coordinator

PTF-SGP at the UNDP since December 2001. Before joining UNDP, he was Senior NGO Coordinator of IUCN Pakistan's Sarhad Office in Peshawar. His responsibilities there

included the implementation of the NGO component of the Sarhad Provincial Conservation Strategy (SPCS), which entails assisting NGO/CBO capacity building for sustainable development with a special focus on conservation. On behalf of the SPCS Support Unit, he

is actively involved in the reform process of the Forestry Sector of NWFP. Prior to becoming NGO Coordinator, Mr Saleem Ullah worked for one year as Natural Resource Management

Coordinator and was responsible for 'greening' programs, as well as for providing technical support to the SPCS agriculture and forestry components. Earlier he worked in the Malakand/Dir Social Forestry Project as Training Officer and in the Kalam Integrated

Development Project as Field Forest Officer. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Caravan, a natural resource based NGO in Malakand division, and a member of the

management committee of LASOONA-Human and Natural Resource Development Society. Mr Saleemullah is an external advisor to MSc students (Agriculture, Forestry, and Sociology) on thesis work. He is also a member of the Asian Forest Trees and People

Network of Bangkok, Thailand, and actively involved in supporting the formation of an association of community based forest management in Asia. He holds a Masters in Tropical

Forestry with a specialization in Social Forestry from Wageningen Agriculture University, The Netherlands, for which he undertook a one-year research project in Indigenous Forest Management.



http://un.org.pk/undp


Umar Farooq Hashmi

Designation: Senior Manager Business Development

Organization: GlaxoSmithKline Pakistan Ltd.


Work Phone: 092 021 35205494


Profile

Since Jan 2009, Mr. Hashmi has been working with GSK Pakistan as Senior Manager Business Development based in Karachi. His core involvement is in the identification of

growth opportunities and leverage them to become part of company business, Working with manufacturing facilities for ensuring timely launches of new products, line extensions,

branded generics and packs rationalizations.

From Jan 2005 till Dec 2008 moved to the Regional Supply Chain for the Asia Pac Region in the capacity of Regional Manager. Main functional responsibilities included:

Managing information flow across various platforms within the supply chain network. This

includes legacy systems (BPCS) at regional locations, data warehouses, Manugistics and SAP.

Develop and cultivate business relationship with the regional markets and manufacturing sites

Communication of critical issues, required resources, project plans and goals to Senior Management in the region.

He is responsible for aligning the market/sites processes with the global supply chain

design by working closely with markets/sites at varying levels. Supporting Regional Sales & Operations Planning process and contribute by providing

analytical performance measurement reports.

Work closely with Regional Demand (Forecasting) and Market Planning (Fulfilment Planning) in order to bring improvements in forecasting, customer service, inventory management, and Plant performances.



Mamoona Wali Muhammad

Designation: Deputy Director

Organization: Ministry of Climate Change


Work Phone: 051-9245597

Work Fax: 051-9245590

E-mail: [email protected]

Profile

Ms. Muhammad works as Deputy Director for ministry of climate change. Previously she

was working as a lecturer at the Pakistan Forest Institute (PFI), Peshawar, where she was the first woman professional in forestry to be admitted. Her responsibilities at PFI include teaching graduate and postgraduate students from all over Pakistan and abroad. She

started her career with Winrock International TAT working on a USAID Forestry Project. She has also worked as a key resource person and training specialist for a large number of

projects and women's NGOs. Beside her academic duties, Ms Muhammad has also worked as Assistant Country Coordinator and gender specialist for the People and Resource Dynamic Project (PARDYP) of the ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal. She is also a member of the

Board of Directors of the Human Resource Management and Development Centre and of the Executive Committee of United Rural Development Organization, a group of NGOs

working in North West Frontier Province. She has presented a number of papers and reports on women in forestry, biomass energy, and participatory approaches in social forestry. She holds a postgraduate degree in Forestry from the Pakistan Forestry Institute

and a graduate diploma in Forestry for Rural Development from the Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences, The Netherlands.Presently she is pursuing her PhD studies in

Forest Management at University PUTRA Malaysia


Rahila Durrani

Designation: Minister for Prosecution

Cohort : 2000-2002 - Cohort 9


Profile

Ms. Durrani has practised law for the past five years. She is also a journalist and has been editor of Aghaz. Other newspapers she has worked for are: The Balochistan Times, Jang,

Zamana, and Bakhabar. She has been associated too with Radio Pakistan and Pakistan Television, Quetta. As a social worker, Ms Durrani helped to co-found Pakistan Companion,

an NGO active in the health, education, and environment sectors. She holds administrative posts in Helpers' Association and Aurat Foundation and is associated with organizations

such as Pakistan Youth Federation, Pakistan Youth Crescent Organization, Balochistan NGOs Federation, Media Watch Group, and the Women in Development (WID) Network Balochistan. Ms Durrani has extensive experience of arranging workshops, seminars, and

conferences. She holds a Masters in Mass Communication from Balochistan University and a degree in Law from University Law College.



Sumaira Sagheer Toor

Designation: Communication Arts Consultant


Work Phone: 92 051 2275221

Work Fax: 92 051 2275772


Profile

Ms. Toor is Communications Officer with the Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP)

Islamabad. Before joining AKRSP, she was Information and Outreach Specialist for the UNDP-ENERCON FERTS Project, which aims to create mass awareness of vehicle emission

and pollution. Her earlier experience includes freelance consultancy work with development projects as a communications expert, and senior positions in advertising companies. She is part of Network for Community Empowerment and Page Maker, a skill pool of professionals

from various fields who come together to explore creativity and offer expertise on different medium sized projects. She has a Masters in English Literature from Kinnaird College,

Lahore.



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Dr. Musarrat Jabeen

Designation: Associate Professor

Organization: University of Baluchistan



Profile

Dr. Musarrat jabeen is Research Fellow @ Commission on Sciences and Technology for,

Sustainable Development in, The South, (COMSATS), Islamabad. She received her Ph. D from the University of Karachi, in 2004, titled, “International Institutions and the Challenge of Sustainable Development in Balochistan Since 1990”. She applied systems thinking and

multidisciplinary approach in her research. The focus of her research is conflict, competition, and cooperation in and around the concept and practice of sustainable

development. Her specialization relates to sustainable development/institutional economics/gender/climate change/ energy and conflict management. Dr. Musarrat Jabeen has contributed 22 research publications and made 24 oral presentations in peer reviewed

international Conferences. She has an extensive experience working as a research fellow at the Hastings Education System, Social Sciences School Canada, LEAD International

affiliated with Imperial Wey College London, Institute of Regional Studies-Islamabad, and Defense and Strategic Studies Dept., Quaid-a-Azam University Islamabad. She worked at Lahore University of Management Sciences under national linkages program sponsored by

Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. She is an all time meritorious student who won Nishan-e-Haider Scholarship. Presently she has started a study titled, “Mainstreaming

Climate Change Impact in Governance Systems of Pakistan”.

Dr. Musarrat jabeen is Research Fellow @ Commission on Sciences and Technology for, Sustainable Development in, The South, (COMSATS), Islamabad. She received her Ph. D

from the University of Karachi, in 2004, titled, “International Institutions and the Challenge of Sustainable Development in Balochistan Since 1990”. She applied systems thinking and multidisciplinary approach in her research. The focus of her research is conflict,

competition, and cooperation in and around the concept and practice of sustainable development. Her specialization relates to sustainable development/institutional

economics/gender/climate change/ energy and conflict management. Dr. Musarrat Jabeen has contributed 22 research publications and made 24 oral presentations in peer reviewed international Conferences. She has an extensive experience working as a research fellow at

the Hastings Education System, Social Sciences School Canada, LEAD International affiliated with Imperial Wey College London, Institute of Regional Studies-Islamabad, and

Defense and Strategic Studies Dept., Quaid-a-Azam University Islamabad. She worked at Lahore University of Management Sciences under national linkages program sponsored by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. She is an all time meritorious student who won

Nishan-e-Haider Scholarship.



Dr. Syed Tauqir Hussain Shah

Designation: Secretary to Chief Minister Punjab

Organization: Government of Punjab


Work Phone: 92 051 9203442

Work Fax: 92 051 9206462


Web: http://www.nrsp.org.pk

Profile

Syed Tauqir Hussain SHAH is a civil servant presently working for the Government of Punjab, as Deputy Secretary. His previous assignment was Deputy Secretary to the Chief Minister (who is the Chief Executive of the province of Punjab), in the largest province of

Pakistan that has a population of 70 million. He belongs to the fast track cadre of civil service of Pakistan called the District Management Group. Prior to this he worked as

Additional Deputy Commissioner in one of the districts in Potowar plateau in northern part of Punjab province and was an Assistant Commissioner in three different sub-districts of Punjab.

In the capacity of field officer as Additional Deputy Commissioner and Assistant

Commissioner I performed a variety of duties that included municipal administration, land and revenue administration, criminal administration of justice as a magistrate, flood relief, management of elections, co-ordination between Non-Governmental Organisations and

Governmental agencies, supervision of different government departments (i.e. Health, Education, Irrigation, Police, Civil defence),and also headed the environmental offences

court. From 1987-1990 he worked as a medical doctor (MBBS)

and later appeared in competitive civil service examination in 1990. He also holds a

masters (MSc) in human resource management (HRM) from University of Manchester in 1998.


http://www.nrsp.org.pk/


Aftab ur Rehman Rana

Designation: President

Organization: Sustainable Tourism Foundation Pakistan


Work Phone: 051-2612448



Profile

Mr. Aftab-ur-Rehman Rana is associated with tourism trade since 1988. He is currently serving as Tourism Development Advisor with USAID FIRMS Project. Mr. Rana’s job entails planning and implementation of various activities for the revival of tourism and hotel

industry of Swat Valley.

He is well known in public and private sectors of tourism industry due to his pioneering

efforts for the promotion of ecotourism in Pakistan. Previously he has served as Director

General Operations at Adventure Foundation Pakistan. He has extensively traveled

throughout the country and abroad and has vast experience of tour packaging, product

development, destination development and tourism marketing. His main areas of interest

are Ecotourism, Adventure Tourism and Youth Tourism.

He has also worked with WWF-Pakistan and IUCN Pakistan as an Ecotourism

Advisor/Consultant and has prepared tourism management plans for different National

Parks and protected areas of Pakistan.

He has received a number of awards including the Trainer of the Year Award from the

South Asia Tourism Human Resource Development Project (SATHRDP), Commonwealth

Asia Award for Excellence in Youth Work and Government of Pakistan’s Better Pakistan-

2010 Excellence Award in the field of Tourism.



Liaqat Ali Sheraifi




Profile

Mr. Sheraifi received his BA in Fine Arts from the National College of Arts, Lahore. He worked as Communications and Media Specialist for Balochistan Community Irrigation and

Agriculture Project. He was responsible for designing and assisting the production of printed materials for training, producing audio messages for distance learning programs, and producing video films for public relations and training. Previously, Mr. Sheraifi worked for

the Balochistan Rural Support Program (BRSP) were he designed awareness campaigns for farmers and artisans and conducted trainings in communication, presentation, community

participation and community mobilization. He has also served as a consultant for projects sponsored by the FAO, UNDP, and the WWF. Mr. Sheraifi has conducted a number of workshops on the role of the media in the effective dissemination of information, and the

preparation and use of training aids. He has participated in a number of workshops and seminars on community participation and development, international art and

communications.

Cerrently, he is based in New York City where he runs his own incorporation in the field of signage and graphic design.



Mazhar Iqbal Shaikh

Designation: Certificate Manager

Organization: SGS Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd.



Profile

Mazhar is currently working as Director Operations for Agricultural Services in SGS Pakistan

– a Swiss multinational service organization operating in over 140 countries of the world

including Pakistan. His main task is to verify the quality, quantity and other trading

requirements of agri commodities coming in or going out of Pakistan. Besides managing

Agri laboratory services he is also involved in studying impact of climate change on

agriculture.

He is an experienced management system auditor and trainer having an experience of

around 15 years. He is qualified for leading audits for ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004,

ISO 22000:2005, HACCP and BRC. He has conducted over 500 audits for QMS, EMS and

FSMS in Pakistan and in the region. He is also an approved lead tutor for IRCA registered

lead auditor courses for these three management systems. He has successfully conducted

training courses ranging from one day awareness sessions to five day lead auditor course

for QMS, EMS and FSMS. He has conducted these courses for variety of industrial and

business operations in Pakistan, India, Far East Asia and Africa. Mazhar is also qualified for

GlobalGAP (Fruits & Vegetables) Train the Trainer program.

Mazhar has also been responsible for managing project for HACCP training &

Implementation in Fisheries sector in Pakistan from 1997 – 2000. Due to a regulation

issued by United States Food & Drug Administration in year 1997 it had become mandatory

for all the fisheries exporters to USA from all over the world to implement HACCP in their

processing plant. To fulfill awareness raising need and HACCP implementation support SGS

established a joint venture with National Fisheries Institute (NFI) USA to train fisheries

sector in the world. As National Project Manager for NFI/SGS project worked extensively

with Fisheries sector in Pakistan for successful implementation of HACCP in processing

plants. For this project he obtained high profile theoretical and in-plant training in India

and Philippines for conducting HACCP training and verifying HACCP implementation in

processing plants. Mazhar holds Master degree in Chemistry with Microbiology and another

Masters in Environmental Sciences.



Muhammad Azam Roomi

Designation: Principal Lecturer / Director - MBM Programme /

Director of Research - Centre for Women's Enterprise

Organization: University of Bedfordshire Business School


Work Phone: +447812075951

Cell Number: +447812075951


Profile

Muhammad Azam Roomi has successfully completed a variety of policy, research

and capacity building assignments for the establishment and development of entrepreneurial ventures at international level. His major research works have been

focused on the growth and development of enterprises in the UK, Pakistan, and other Asian and Islamic countries. He has recently won the Emerald Literati Network Highly Commended Paper Award- 2011. Roomi has served as a consultant for enterprise

development to several national and international organisations such as the Government of Pakistan, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Union, the Aga Khan

Rural Support Programme, Luton Borough Council, Prowess, IUCN, UN-APCTT, ILO, and EEDA. He also sits at the boards of Institute of Small Businesses and Entrepreneurship as Vice President and Marsh Farm Community Resource Trust as the Chairperson. For more

information, please visit http://www.mroomi.com


http://www.mroomi.com/


Muhammad Rafi Ghaus


Organization: Extension Projects & Studies Division NEC

Consultants (Pvt) Ltd


Work Phone: + 92 21 3589 3341-43

Work Fax: + 92 21 3589 3340

Email: [email protected] ,

[email protected]

Profile

Mr. Ghaus received his Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from The NED University of

Engineering and Technology, Karachi in 1988. Currently, he is working as General Manager

Environmental Studies and Extensions Project (Southern Zone) at NEC Consultants.

He has worked as Director, Development Projects at Cleaner Production Institute (CPI)

from 2003 to 2006. During his three years tenure with CPI, Mr. Ghaus supervised the

implementation of “Cleaner Technologies Program for Textile Sector of Pakistan (CTP-

Textile)” project. The Royal Netherlands Embassy (RNE) funded the project to provide free

technical assistance to the progressive textile industries to solve their environmental

problems.

Mr. Ghaus was the Project Coordinator of the Dutch funded project Cleaner Production

Program (CPP) where his major responsibilities were to mobilize industries for the

implementation of cleaner production options.

During his professional career, he has been involved in site supervision, project

management &coordination, preparation of tender documents, development of BOQs, field

surveys, Environmental Audits etc.

He has also been involved in various EIA studies. He participated as a team member in the

EIAs of a Fertilizer Plant, a Polyester chip manufacturing plant, oil refinery and different

drilling projects of oil wells. As a team leader, he conducted the Environmental Audits of

industrial units like Paint, Pharmaceutical, Textile, Edible Oil refinery and Electrical

Appliances manufacturers.




Muhammad Usman Qazi

Designation: Consultant

Organization: Self Employed


Work Address: Flat No 3, Block 5-C, PHA Apartments, G-11/3,

Islamabad

Work Phone: (cell) +92 333 5280660


Profile

Muhammad Usman QAZI is a community development, human rights and humanitarian

relief worker from Pakistan. He hails from the city of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province. He has studied engineering from NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan and Economics and Management of Rural Development from Institute for

Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, UK. He has about 16 years' experience of working in the field of sustainable community development and relief

with a special focus on water resource management. He has worked on various projects funded by The World Bank, The Netherlands Government, Department for International Development (UK) and the United Nations. Qazi was until March 2009 working with UNDP

Pakistan in responding to the October 2005 earthquake and for promoting disaster risk reduction in the country. Presently, he is the Early Recovery Advisor to the UNRC Office in

Dhaka, Bangladesh. Qazi is very interested in cross-cultural communication to foster a better understanding

between all the inhabitants of this planet. He is a polyglot and speaks six languages fluently and can communicate in two more.

His professional interests include theory and practice of sustainable development, institutional transformation, leadership and management. Qazi is particularly interested in

the political economy of production, processing and dissemination of information.

Qazi was the author and principal investigator for 'Social Assessment of Water Scarcity in Baluchistan that was one of the three globally selected research proposals under a UNDESA award. He has published three articles on sustainable development in peer reviewed

international journals and has also contributed a book chapter on post disaster recovery.

Qazi is an active member of LEAD Pakistan family where he provides training related services to the country office on regular basis.

His personal interests include study of culture, literature, poetry and art.



Naseer Memon

Designation: Chief Executive

Organization: Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO)


Work Phone: 051 111 357 111


[email protected]

Profile

Naseer Memon is a development professional, who has been working with prominent development sector and corporate sector organizations of Pakistan since last 15 years.

Over past Ten years he has been working on management positions in reputed corporate and social sector organizations including SPO, LEAD Pakistan, Premier Oil and WWF Pakistan. He is currently Chief Executive of Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO),

one of the largest rights-based national NGO of Pakistan with offices in all provinces and AJK. Prior to that, he was associated with an international organization “Leadership for

Environment and Development” LEAD-Pakistan as Provincial Coordinator for Sindh. Before joining LEAD Pakistan, Mr. Memon was associated with World Wide Fund (WWF) Pakistan as Manager for Sindh Program. During his association with WWF he managed projects of

European Commission, Shell Pakistan and other donors. Mr. Memon has also been teaching the subject of Water Resource Management in Mehran University of Engineering and Tech

for five years i.e. from 1996 to 2001. He has extensively written in English and local newspapers on issues related to social sector development of Pakistan.

Mr. Memon worked with a leading corporate organization Premier Oil in Environment and Community Development Department for two years. He managed over a dozen community

projects in Sindh and Balochistan provinces. The projects were implemented by local NGOs. Mr. Memon was responsible for designing and monitoring of the projects and stakeholder relationship building. These projects were mainly in education, health and drinking water

sectors. Apart from this responsibility he was also responsible to coordinate with consultants to conduct Environmental Impact Assessments in Sindh. He also coordinated

with Environmental Protection Agency to organize public hearings of the EIAs. He was involved in around a dozen of EIAs.

He also worked with UNDP as a Provincial Monitoring Officer on its Drought Relief Assistance Program in Sindh. In this brief association of 4 months Mr. Memon closely

worked with the Provincial Government to monitor proper implementation of drought relief program in Sindh.




Sardar Iftikhar Ahmed Khan

Designation: Program Manager Baluchistan

Organization: Save the Children International


Work Phone: ++92-81- 2821549, 2828013

Work Fax: ++92-81-2838085


Web: http://www.savethechildren.org

Profile

With 16 years of experience as a development professional, Sardar Iftikhar Ahmed Khan has worked with renowned international and local NGOs in the field of development and

humanitarian assistance. He has attended various management, leadership and programme development training courses nationally and internationally.

After studying Agricultural Engineering at the University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Sardar Iftikhar joined Oxfam where he worked for 6 years till 2001 as Program Coordinator

Balochistan. He also served as Assistant Agricultural Engineer in the Department of Agriculture with the Government of Balochistan.

He has led various emergency responses during droughts, floods, earthquakes and refugee situations across Pakistan and has also qualified an Emergency Capacity Building (ECB)

course which is a collaborative effort of seven international humanitarian NGOs to improve the quality of emergency response and preparedness in emergency-prone countries worldwide.

Sardar Iftikhar Ahmed Khan is presently working with Save the Children International as

Program Manager Balochistan, based in Quetta.


http://www.savethechildren.org/


Waqar Ahmad Khan

Designation: CEO

Organization: Star Hydro Power Limited


Work Phone: +92 51 2212 610


Web: http://www.patrind.com

Profile

With over 20 years experience in the power sector, Mr. Khan is presently working as Chief

Executive Officer of Star Hydropower Limited, an Independent Power Producer in

hydropower sector. Star Hydropower Limited is the setting up a 147MW hydropower project

in Azad Kashmir with 100% foreign direct investment. Previously, Mr. Khan has also been

involved in setting up a gas based combined cycle IPP in dual capacity as Chief Technical &

Commercial Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to that Mr. Khan was working in the

public sector as professional engineer.

Mr. Khan holds an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineer from Peshawar, a graduate

degree in Control Systems from Manchester and an MBA degree from LUMS. His reading

interests include regulation and regulatory structures, and literature.


http://www.patrind.com/


Huma Mustafa Beg

Designation: Chairman and Founder

Organization: Serendip Production (Pvt.) Ltd


Work Phone: 92 051 2212306

Work Fax: 92 051 2213031


Web: http://www.serendip.tv and

http://www.serendipitymedia.co.uk

Cell Number: +92-300-855-5592

Profile

Ms. Huma Mustafa Beg is currently the Chairman and founder of Serendip Productions,

working exclusively in the education and development sector. Currently, Ms Beg is involved

in creating ALIF, an educational and development multi-media initiative that will focus on

using the electronic media to assist the process of development.

Huma Mustafa Beg has had the privilege of studying in the US, UK and Pakistan and has

received four British Medical Association's International Film and Video Awards for

programs on health awareness issues. She has hosted a number of shows and was selected

to create the first magazine program on environment. She has worked with various

organizations which include Serendip Productions Pakistan, Imran Khan Foundation (IKF),

HIFZA International UK, HEALTHWISE- UK, and Adventure Foundation of Pakistan.

In the last decade, Serendip has earned the distinction of being recognized as a leading

Pakistan based Production Company, both in terms of the quality and content of its work.

As a social enterprise Serendip laid the trend of using media as a tool for advocacy in

development communication nearly 15 years ago. Serendip today boasts more than a

thousand programmes to its credit. Based in Islamabad and the UK, Serendip's work

ranges from documentaries, factuals and light entertainment to educational, children,

environment and health programmes. Sustainable development through cultural

preservation tied to community development is high on the Serendip agenda. One of the

world¹s heritage sites- the magnificent Rohtas Fort is being preserved through one such

effort. Another one is a preservation project of the city of old Peshawar and Lahore with

UNESCO and UNDP for which Ms Beg wrote the communication strategy.



Noor U Nisa Ghanghro



Profile

Ms. Ghangroo received her MA in International Relations from Karachi University. She is

currently a freelance development consultant. Currently working for Pakistan Television corporation hosting a women show in Sindhi language and conducting research for a documentary series on the life of coastal communities including life on sea islands, People

living around the wetlands, life at desert in Pakistan. Ms. Ghangroo is currently leading an organization, which aims to strengthen civil society through advocacy and facilitating

development support to the grass root organizations.

Ms Ghanghro worked as consultant with Oxfam Pakistan studied the policy reforms of the National Drainage Programme in Pakistan and conduct Social Audit with the communities at flood prone areas of Pakistan. She had worked on a documentary on the sea level rise and

its impact on the human population living along the Pakistani coast for OSH Communications. Ms. Ghangroo is also conducts a monthly workshop on environmental

education for the Layari Community Development Project. Whilst working at WWF-Pakistan, she assisted in a study titled, 'The Root Causes of Biodiversity Loss in Mangroves Ecosystems at the Indus Delta and Balochistan Coast'. She has been engaged on other

project ' Conservation of mangrove forests at the coastal areas of Sindh and Balochistan'. Ms. Ghanghro has conducted a number of workshops on topics such as community

activism, poverty alleviation and the monitoring and evaluation of community organizations. Previously, Ms. Ghanghro was a Project Development Coordinator with GHK International, a UK-based management-consulting firm. Here she was involved with the

Faisalabad Area Upgrading Project, and was charged with the identification of the needs of the poor and the facilitation of the capacity-building of social organizers (SOs) and multi-

purpose community organizations (MPCOs). As a Community Organization Coordinator with GHK International, Ms. Ghanghro together with field teams developed a methodology for sustainable community organization formation through a process of local management,

institution-building, capital formation and skill enhancing.

Ms Ghanghro worked as senior social organizer trainer for National Rural Support programme where she facilitated the process of institution building at grass root level and implements the participatory methodologies.



Rubina Tariq Zahur




Profile

Rubina Tariq is working freelance these days after serving as a regular employee of two well reputed institutions; Beaconhouse National University and Ali Institute of Education for

12 years. Currently she is working as visiting and adjuct faculty at Beaconhouse National University, Lahore College for Women University (teaching and supervising research at MA level) and University of Management and Technology besides working as a consultant for

different international organizations. Recently she has conducted a Training and Resource Gap Analysis (TARGA) of University of Educaiton under Canada Pakistan Basic Education

Project (CPBEP) - CIDA. She served as an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Teacher Education, School of Education (SE), Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, Pakistan. She has established the School of EDucation and has been a member of core team

designing programs to be offered by BNU. She co-designed Masters in School Administration (MSA) program for in-service teachers; prepared course descriptions for

courses and workshops of the program. She was responsible for the identification and hiring of visiting faculty, preparing budget for the school and smooth and timely payment (remuneration) to the visiting faculty. She has also designed BA in Education program (4 -

year) to be offered by the School of Education. She has worked as the Chairperson of the Department of Science Education at Ali Institute of Education (AIE), Lahore, Pakistan. She

taught science education and environmental education through integrated approach to pre- as well as in-service teachers, and master teachers. She coordinated the research activity at the AIE and within the department. Rubina is also involved in research activities both at

national and international level. She has worked with the Stockholm Institute of Education, Stockholm, Sweden in the areas of Science and Environmental Education. Currently she has

worked with the faculty of Teachers College, Columbia University in the area of Community Based Science and Sociopolitical Change through science education in poverty areas in Lahore.

Mrs. Tariq received a MA in Science Education with specialization in Elementary Science Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA. She also

posses a MSC Botany from Punjab University of , Lahore, Pakistan and served as a research fellow in the same Department of PU, Lahore. She is looking forward to indulge into PhD/

Doctorate.



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Dr. Amena Hasan

Designation: Chief Executive Officer

Organization: Business for Social Progress


Work Phone: + 92 42 36144922


Profile

Dr. Hasan is an alumni of Oxford University, UK. She was awarded a full scholarship for the

2006 session of the Oxford University Business Economics Program (OUBEP). Dr. Hasan did M.Phil. degree in Microbiology from Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan (1996) and earned her degree as Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from University of Agriculture Faisalabad,

Pakistan (1994). Dr. Hasan have been working at management level on different assignments related to project/program designing, implementation and evaluation in

different areas of Social Development and Corporate Social Responsibility for about ten years now. She has also managed Multi stakeholder partnerships involving Government, NGOs, Corporate sector and trade unions.

Currently she is working as CEO Business for Social Progress. Prior to that Dr. Hasan

worked as Foreign Expert – CSR at Dalian Nationalities University, China. She also served as the Chief Executive Officer of Business for Social Progress (BSP) where she undertook multiple constancy assignments with Focus Humanitarian Assistance, Save the Children UK,

ESRA Plus (Education Development Center In.), Micronutrient Initiative, LEAD Pakistan, Farm Forestry Support Project (Inter-cooperation), OMV Pvt. Ltd. (Oil and Gas company),

Interloop Pvt. Ltd. (Textile industry) and PPEPCA (Pakistan Petroleum Exploration and Production Companies Association). The assignments involved project/program Monitoring and Evaluation, participatory research (qualitative and quantitative), capacity development

of health and education department officials, community and local NGO trainings, project development and implementation of community-based projects on education, health,

livelihoods, skill enhancement, and natural resource management. All the projects focus on marginalized communities and vulnerable groups especially WOMEN and CHILDREN

As a free lance consultant Dr. Hasan undertook different assignments in China (Nov. 2001-Sep. 2002) with the Institute of Agriculture Economics (Government), LEAD China, Beijing

Television (Semi Government) and Trustee On Developing A+ Kids (private education company). Dr. Hasan also served as the Technical Consultant- Public Private Partnerships at the Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy (2003-2004) where her main responsibility was to

devise strategies for facilitating corporate sector support for promoting access to Quality Education through the Government Education system in Pakistan.


Dr. Javaid Afzal

Designation: Environment Specialist

Organization: World Bank Resident Mission


Work Phone: 92 51 9090186

Work Fax: 92 51 9090141


Profile

Dr Afzal is working with the World Bank at its Islamabad office. He is the Senior Environment Specialist and is managing number of projects in environmental protection

and water resources management. He is also leading the AKRSP Microhydel Carbon Finance project from World Bank side, which is part of the AKRSP show case at the RIO +20 next

year. This project is also the first carbon trading project in Pakistan. He also provides support to number of World Bank operations in the South Asia Region particularly in Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Nepal. He has extensive experience in environment and

development, and has many publications to his credit.



Dr. Murtaza Malik

Designation: Water, Environment and Sanitation Officer

Organization: UNICEF


Work Phone: 92 051 2097818

Work Fax: 092 051 2097799


Profile

Dr. Malik is currently working as Water, Environment and Sanitation Specialist in UNICEF

Pakistan. He possesses over 15 years of experience of design, planning, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of projects and programmes in the areas of drinking water

supply, environment and sanitation as well as policy planning, emergency preparedness and response, and resource mobilization. He has previously worked with Government and international development partners including NWFP Works and Services Department, NWFP

Environmental Protection Agency, GTZ, National Engineering Services of Pakistan, UNDP, Ministry of Environment, Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority and

UNICEF. He has the honor of coordinating formulation of Pakistan’s first National Environment Policy, National Sanitation Policy-2006, “Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Strategy for Water and Sanitation Sector for the Earthquake affected areas of Pakistan” and

the 2nd South Asian Conference on Sanitation through countrywide consultations. He also made significant contributions to the National Drinking Water Policy, National Clean

Development Mechanism Strategy, Medium-term Development Framework (2005-10), Pakistan Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, Country Strategic Environmental Assessment and Country Report on Millennium Development Goals-2004.

Dr. Malik has to his credit several major environment sector projects, which he developed

while working at the Ministry of Environment, including Environmental Education Promotion at School and College Levels, Establishment of National Environmental Informational

Management System, Integration of Environmental Accounting in the National Accounting System, Integration of Environment in the Teacher Training Programmes of Allama Iqbal Open University, Formulation of Islamabad Sustainable Development Strategy and National

Capacity Self Assessment for Global Environmental Management.

Dr. Malik holds a Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from Pakistan and Masters and Doctorate in Environmental Engineering from the United Kingdom. He has been awarded a Gold Medal by NWFP University of Engineering and Technology, Overseas Research Award

by the British Government and the Young Authors Award by the British Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management. He has 25 national and international

publications to his credit including practitioners and research papers in reputed national and international journals and conference proceedings.



Ayaz Latif Palijo

Designation Constitutional Lawyer

Organization Sindh High Court

Work Phone: 92 22 2651725, 92 22 2729964, 92 300

3063471

Work Fax: 92 22 2651947


Web: http://www.atsindh.com/frjp/

Profile

Ayaz Latif Palijo is one of the leading human rights lawyers of Pakistan, who has filed,

contested and won hundreds of cases on behalf of the oppressed and victimized sections of Pakistani society. He has remained a member, guest speaker Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD), Commonwealth Association of Science, Technology and

Mathematics Educators (CASTME), International Water History Association (IWHA), Centre for Peace and Social Justice, Southern Cross University, International Association for the

Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), Asian Students Association (ASA), World Social Forum (WSF) and World Commission on Dams (WCD). Palijo is considered as being the first person to introduce the concepts of human rights and public interest litigation in rural areas

of Sindh, Pakistan. Ayaz Palijo has written six books and hundreds of columns and his recent activities include launching a strong campaign against the man-made water

shortage, child abuse, forced conversion of Minority girls and terrorism. He is known for his aggressive speeches and outspoken attitude towards the dictatorships and feudalism and has remained at the forefront of the movement for Peace, Human rights and women's

rights in Pakistan for the last two decades, he specializes in Human Rights Litigation, and has conducted several cases which have become landmarks in setting human rights

standards in Pakistan. He has introduced the new trends of Public Interest Litigation on bonded labor, violence against women, children and minorities and on honor killings, child labor, animal rights, prisoners' rights, in the rural areas of Sindh, Pakistan, and has been

working as a lecturer in Sindh Law College and in degree classes of Juris Doctor. No one in Sindh and Pakistan's history has addressed fanatics, corrupt rulers, feudals or terrorists in

such a belligerent tone in rallies or on live TV. On his call against the water theft, the entire province of Sindh remained closed on 19th February 2010. He is founder of Nationalist

Alliance SPNA and has also been holding the responsibilities of Chairman of the Sindh Research Council (SRC), Chairman of the Forum For Rights Justice & Peace (FRJP) for the last several years and elected as President of Awami Tahreek in October 2009. At present

he has been practicing as a leading constitutional lawyer of Sindh High Court, Hyderabad, Pakistan and he was the first lawyer who challenged the man-made breaches of dikes and

embankments of Indus river at Tori, Ghouspur, Suprio and MS Bund in Sindh during Floods of 2010.


http://www.atsindh.com/frjp/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani_people

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palijo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_interest_litigation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abuse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_conversion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Interest_Litigation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonded_labor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_against_women

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_rights

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners'_rights

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindh_High_Court


Farhan Sami

Designation: Country Team Leader Water and Sanitation

Programme-South Asia

Organization: The World Bank


Work Phone: 92 051 9090611

Work Fax: 92 051 2826362


Web: http://wsp.org

Profile

Mr. Farhan SAMI is the Country Team Leader of the Water and Sanitation program of the World Bank at Islamabad. He has been providing effective leadership to a multi-disciplinary country team, pursuing global and regional program objectives and strategizing and

operating with a network of partners to achieve the desired results

Earlier, He has been associated with IUCN- The World Conservation union as Head of Project Development, with UNDP as Asstt. National program Manager, with WWF as Senior Environmental Specialist, with Euroconsult as Environment Specialist and in the USA with

Powerlab, Inc. and Tejas, Inc as Safety Health and Envornmental Manager.

His interest and work experience has been specialized in the areas of design of politics and policies of water, governance and institutional frameworks of drinking water and sanitation, performance based outcomes for sector improvement, environmental impact assessments

and developing economical solutions for water and environmental compliance. He has also been involved in developing awareness about water resources environment problems in the

general masses and industrial sector

Farhan has over a dozen publications related to design and improvement of policies and treatment system of water, wastewater and environment, enviroinmental management systems, etc. As Chief Editor of NEEDs at NED University of Engineering and Technology,

Karachi, he wrote articles on engineering, humanity, social anomalies, environment, entertainment and news. He has also delivered lectures and presentations on water and

environment as well as sustainable development issues. Farhan is an environmental engineer by education with a Masters degree in Environmental/

Water Resources Engineering from the University of Texas, Arlington, USA as well as Bachelors degrees in Civil Engineering, Economics & International Relations.


http://wsp.org/


Munir Ahmed


Organization: Development Communications Network Pakistan



Web: http://www.devcom.org.pk

Profile

Munir Ahmed, a post-graduate in the Mass Communication, is the Managing Director of the

Media Network, Islamabad, and the founding chairman of the Devcom-Pakistan (Development Communications Network), the premier communication sector NGO in

Pakistan. He has over 20 years of experience in journalism, broadcasting, development

communications, media management and advertising.

He has written extensively on environment and development for mainstream publications such as The News, The Muslim and Pakistan Observer. As a broadcaster, he conducted live programs and interviews for different channels of the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation

(PBC) and Pakistan Television (PTV). He also reported the Ojri Camp disaster on radio and won the Award for excellent work.

Munir is the author of four books Land of the Rising Sun (a travelogue of Japan), 25 Years of PTV (the first-ever book on PTV history) and a book about the human body, and a book

of short stories Intezar Ka Akhri Pehr (The Last Spell of Waiting). His collection of poems Pehlay Khawab Ki Dastak (The Knock of First Dream) is under-print.

Munir has won awards for his innovative work in environmental journalism and baodcasting.


http://www.devcom.org.pk/


Sheraz Manzoor Haider

Designation: Senior Contract Management Specialist

Organization: Asian Development Bank, AJP-ADTA Governance

Unit



Profile

Mr. Haider belongs to the Audit & Accounts cadre of Superior Civil Services of Pakistan. He

has worked as Deputy Accountant General in the office of the Account General, and Assistant Auditor General in the Department of the Auditor General of Pakistan. He has been on the editorial board of the Annual Report of the Auditor General of Pakistan in

2000.Since 2004, he has been working as Advisory Technical Assistance consultant, in the Governance Unit at Pakistan Resident Mission, Asian Development Bank, where he advises

the lenders on contract management, disbursement and fiduciary arrangements.

Mr. Haider has particular expertise in policy analysis, risks management in public contracting, social auditing and developing M&E mechanisms for transparent financial governance of public sector institutions.

Mr. Haider is a mainstream playwright for the experimental theatre in Pakistan and has

scripted stage plays for various national and international theatre festivals. Mr. Haider has deep interest in issues related to environment, sustainability and

development. He has been involved in a number of initiatives undertaken for analysing governance and sustainability issues in civil society organizations. Mr. Haider has been the

founder member and first Vice President of Pakistan's leading forum for environmental journalists- 'Green Press'. He has been the Mentor for Pakistani delegation to Global Environmental Youth Convention in Lund, Sweden, 2000.In 2001, he represented LEAD at

the 9th session of Commission on Sustainable Development at the UN Headquarters. As a LEAD Associate, He undertook pioneering work on design and implementation of

environmental audit within the framework of government auditing in Pakistan. Mr. Haider has been a film, theatre and music critic contributing to newspapers and

magazines of the likes of the Muslim, the Frontier Post, Dawn and Perspective; a scriptwriter and compere for the Pakistan Television Corporation and Pakistan Broadcasting

Corporation. As a producer and scriptwriter, Mr. Haider has made series of documentaries for radio and television on themes as diverse as women in development, the universal human rights, consumer issues, and environment. One of his film was selected for a

competition hosted by Japanese television in 1999. Mr. Haider has been twice elected as the member of the Board of Governors of LEAD Pakistan.



Siraj Narsi

Designation: President/ Principal

Organization: Integrated Resources (Houston Dallas

Calgary)


Work Phone: +1-281-240-2244

Cell number: +1-832-713-1982


Profile

Siraj is practicing as a business development and business finance consultant in North

America for the last 11 years. He graduated in electrical engineering and worked as control systems engineer before joining Civil Service of Pakistan in 1996 as District Management Group (DMG) officer. He served as an Assistant Commissioner in areas like Dera Bugti,

Lorallai, Mastung, Dalbundin in Balochistaan Province. These appointments made it possible to have an insight into ground realities; weakness and gaps in policymaking as well as

service delivery. He believes that this experience has helped him in his later assignments in policy related positions in Planning, Finance and Local Government Departments. An MSc in International Development UK in 2005 provided academic and theoretical basis to his

professional experience and has benefited him during his assignments in Sindh Rural Development Project and Sindh Food Department. His research interest lies in the causes of

inequality between and within nations and its impact on human well-being. Histories, theology and social anthropology are main reading interests and squash is the preferred sport.

Siraj is confident that over 9 years of experience of serving in the field and on policy

positions in this arena has equipped him with a clearer understanding of developmental issues faced by Pakistan and ways to bring about positive improvements through incorporating local realities and knowledge.


Fauzia Bilqis Malik


Organization: Human Resource Development Network (HRDN)


Work Phone: 2821767, 2828259

Work Fax: 92 51 2826540


[email protected]

Web: http://www.hrdn.net

Profile

Ms. Malik is currently working as Executive Director, Human Resource Development

Network (HRDN) that is a network of Human Resource Development professionals and organizations in Pakistan and abroad. Current membership of HRDN (www.hrdn.net) is above 850. She joined HRDN in October 2009 and bringing innovative dimensions in the

network.

Previously she worked as a Project Coordinator, Farm Forestry Support Project (FFSP) with Intercooperation (IC)for 4 years (2005 - 2009). She has worked as Program Manager, Women's Empowerment Program for Peace (WEPP)for Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

Pakistan, that focused on social awareness about women issues and building institutional capacity of most vulnerable rural women of Pakistan. She has also worked as a consultant

for different organizations on baseline studies, project evaluations and trainings, team building of organizational teams. She has also worked as Project Officer Agriculture for CRS Pakistan. She was a Social Survey Officer for Halcrow Rural Management in the Monitoring

and Evaluation (M&E) team. She has undertaken the M&E of an on-farm water management project, to improve the standards of living and agricultural yields of small

holders by improving irrigation agronomy, water efficiency and availability. During her first career assignment she has worked as a Social Organizer with the National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) and as a Participatory Rural Appraisal Specialist with ADB on the Marala

Ravi Link Canal Improving Project.

Ms. Malik holds a Masters degree in Forestry with specialization in social forestry from Peshawar University and a Masters degree in Botany from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. She is a member of number of professional networks including Human Resource

Development Network (HRDN) and Asian Study Group (ASG) Islamabad. Ms. Malik is professionally a trainer in particular on Team Building, a manager and a creative leader.

She has taken a number of initiatives during her career. She has good analytical skills and has experience in assessments, evaluations and documentation. She has participatory leadership style. Her interests include Photography, traveling, reading and work. She has

travelled throughout Pakistan to learn about the great potential, culture and natural beauty of the country. She is highly patriotic and is proud of it.


http://www.hrdn.net/

http://www.hrdn.net/


Tayyaba Samina Irfan


Work Phone: 00 1703-296-1196

Work Fax: 00 1703-635-7728


Profile

Ms. Samina holds Master degrees in Social Forestry and Biochemistry from Pakistan;

Masters in Environmental Science and Policy from Johns Hopkins University USA. Besides working as Consultant with the World Bank Pakistan / Headquarters Washington

DC -various projects in Pakistan, AJK, Bangladesh, Middle East and North Africa (in the field of Environment, Development and cleaner production); Ms Samina is actively involved in

her family business (a construction company working in both residential and commercial works, licensed in the tri-state of Maryland, Virginia and Washington DC).

"Education For Life" a Non Profit Organization" is Ms Samina's recent venture in USA since 2010.

She is an active member of various international organizations such as Amnesty International, SIERRA Club, Gender Water Alliance, Association for Public Policy and

Management DC.



Syed Nadeem Bukhari

Designation: Programme Officer, Climate Change-NRM

Organization: Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation


Work Phone: 92 91 5830416

Work Fax: 92 91 5829594



Web: http://intercooperation.org.pk

Profile

Syed Nadeem Bukhari currently holds the position of Programme Officer, Climate Change-

NRM at Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation . Prior to that, he was the Project Coordinator for

Integrated Natural Resource Management Project (INRM-P) in Pakistan. INRM-P is an SDC

funded project implemented by Intercooperation with bilateral collaboration with Forest

Department, Government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. He holds a degree in forestry and have

extensive training in demography and social skills. Since his graduation, he has been

associated with projects and programmes closely working with Civil Society Organizations

in promoting sustainable development. Before joining Intercooperation, he worked for

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as Programme Monitoring Officer for the

GEF Small Grants Programme that supported projects for conservation of natural resources

and mitigation of climate change. These projects were implemented with the active

participation of stakeholders and the distinguishing feature of these programmes was

promotion of sustainable development in Pakistan through self-help. He is also a member

of Intercooperation Pakistan’s team on climate change and was coordinator and resource

person in the project on hands-on capacity building of government staff on PDDs in forestry

CDM.


http://intercooperation.org.pk/


Mohammad Masud Akhtar

Designation: Managing Director & CEO

Organisation: KSB Pumps Company Limited


Work Phone: 042 – 36316899, 36304173


Profile

Mohammad Masud Akhtar is CEO & MD of KSB Pumps Company Limited, subsidiary of

renowned German multinational, KSB AG. He is an Electrical Engineer by profession and

obtained his Masters degree from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania USA and B.Sc. from

University of Engineering and Technology Lahore. He has an extensive and diversified work

experience in Sales & Marketing, Operations and Manufacturing areas. He has worked on

senior management positions of renowned multinational companies and put them on course

to profitability and growth. He is a member of Board of Governors of National Management

Foundation, LUMS. He is Vice President of Pakistan Foundry Association. He is also Director

of Pakistan German Business Forum and the Chairman of PGBF Northern Chapter. He has

served on Boards of Technology Up gradation & Skill Development Company and Lahore

Stock Exchange. He has attended number of executive training programs including value

based leadership, management and strategy, leadership for environment and development,

sales and marketing, and corporate management. He is a Certified Director of Pakistan

Institute of Corporate Governance. He is a keen swimmer and plays golf.


Hammad Naqi Khan

Designation: Global Cotton Leader

Organization: WWF-International's Market Transformation Initiative (MTI)

Cohort: 07


Profile

Hammad works for WWF-International's Market Transformation Initiative (MTI) as the Global Cotton Leader since August 2011.He was one of the pioneers in the WWF Network in the

cotton work, started in 1999 with a small field project in Pakistan, and which now involves around 100,000 farmers over half a million acres under Better Cotton Initiative (BCI). He has

significant experience in the BCI, represents WWF in the BCI Council and was recently elected as the Vice Chair.

Hammad possesses more than 21 years of professional experience and has been working for WWF for more than 15 years. As the former Director of Programmes at WWF Pakistan, he

managed Freshwater, Sustainable Agriculture, Environmental Assessment and Climate Change Programmes of WWF-P. He has been a core member of WWF Int’ls Global MTI, Freshwater

and Toxics Teams.

He has a MSc Engineering degree in Water and Environment Management from the University of Birmingham, UK, Diploma (International Environmental Law) from UNITAR, Switzerland

and is a Fellow of Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) Program.



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Dr. Azhar Mansur khan

Designation: Professor

Organization: Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering and NUML /

Business Management Consultants (BMC)


Work Phone: 051 9219462

Work Fax: 051 9219464


Profile

Prof. Dr. Azhar. M. Khan has a Ph.D. in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. He also has a Masters in Cost Benefit/Project Management Economics from the same university. He has also obtained diplomas in Project

Management, Environmental Management and fundraising/philanthropy. Currently, he is working as the National Program Manager of National Environmental Action Plan-Support

Program, a UN funded environment program. He is also a visiting faculty at National University of Sciences and Technology NUST, Center for Advancement of Science and

Engineering (CASE) and several other national level institutions. He is the head of the Cost-Benefit Analysis Cell and, with his ability to integrate his knowledge of engineering and economics, he has gained expertise in project evaluation, economic feasibility studies and

cost-benefit analysis. He is also the coordinator for Environmental Management Short Courses and Workshops Program. He is an international expert of project management for

both social sector as well as infrastructure projets. He has published articles dealing with economics and aerospace/mechanical engineering, environment, sustainable rural development, project management and technology management. He is an active

researcher and has recently conducted international workshops on Project Management, Environmental Management, Project Proposal Development and Hospital

Management.Dr.Azhar has been working on means of linking the military with issues of sustainable development and environment protection. He has conceived a model in this regard and hopes that LEAD training will help him test the practical impacts of this concept.

Dr Khan has applied for release from the military to be actively involved in the social sector research and work. He writes in the Newspapers and Sustainable Development

International Magazine. His mail areas of specialty comprise engineering, project management, cost-benefit analysis, technology management, CSR, production and operations management, fundraising, knowledge management and change management.



Ashfaq Ahmad Khokhar

Designation: Sr. Social Safeguard Officer, Pakistan Resident

Mission

Organization: Asia Development Bank


Work Address: Level 8, North Wing, Serena Office Complex, Khayaban-

e-Suhrawardy, G-5, Islamabad.

Work Phone: (92) 051-2087300 Ext 230

Work Fax: +92 51 260 0365-66/208 7397-98


Profile

Possessing a Masters in Economics from Punjab University, Mr. Khokhar has over seven years of experience in working with various international NGOs. These include the Population Council and Hagler Bailey Inc. (energy and social sector research and

development consultancy) for whom he undertook operational research on issues of population dynamics and family planning in Pakistan. He has also worked on a number of

research studies funded by USAID, the World Bank and UNICEF. Since 1995, Mr. Khokhar has been associated with the Ghazi Barotha Development Organization as Program Officer. His work includes the provision of advocacy to the affected communities for their land

compensation and resettlement rights. In addition, his work involves monitoring, evaluation and report writing on social and environmental issues. Mr. Khokhar also coordinates with

other agencies to ensure the implementation of mitigation plans and works for the promotion of participatory development for the sustainable social and environmental uplift of communities, focusing particularly on vulnerable social groups. Mr. Khokhar hopes to

strengthen his understanding of national and global environmental issues and increase his knowledge of related subjects. As a result, he will be able to expand his responsibilities and

involvement in hydropower projects, resulting in the improvement of its impact on environment and development in a particular area.



Ejaz Sikander


Organization: National Commission for Human Development


Work Phone: 03008115367

Work Fax: 0997-302735


Web: http://www.nchd.org.pk

Profile

Mr. Sikander undertook his Masters in Anthropology from the University of Peshawar with a focus on rural socio-economic patterns. Currently, Mr. Sikander is a Program Manger with Catholic Relief Service. He started his career with Sungi Development Foundation in 1994.

As their Zonal Coordinator from 1994-97, where he was responsible for the planning, implementation and monitoring of Sungi's field and advocacy programs in district

Abbottabad. During his time with Sungi he served as the focal point for a British High Commission Project on environment and development in the remote highlands of Circle Bakote. His work was focused upon developing integrated and sustainable natural resource

management practices through irrigation, drinking water supply, latrine, and plantation and village infrastructure schemes. Mr. Sikander has participated in numerous institution-

building initiatives including a NGOs and development training conducted through the Development Studies Program at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia. He joined IUCN after Sungi Development Foundation and remained with IUCUN for six

years as an Expert credit & Enterprise. He developed financial system for rural communities through which they took initiative for improving their livelihood by utilizing and improving

natural resources on sustainable basis. During his stay with IUCN he has been assigned additional responsibilities of training and social component of the project as well. He also Headed Primary Health Care and Early Child Care Development Program of

Community Uplift Program with the partnership of Plan International as a Team leader in Mansehra district more than one year. After that joined Catholic Relief Service as a

Program Manager for the reconstruction of earthquake affected area by managing WatSan program. Upon completion of the contract with CRS; He joined UN Habitat as a Project Coordinator WatSan for AJK and KPK. The main responsibility was to undertake the project

titled “Improvement of Water and Sanitation through Gender Mainstreaming in Urban Unsettled Communities.’’ At present Working as General Manager, National Commission for

Human Development in Abbottabad. His main responsibility is to guide and manage the literacy/Universal Primary Education team to improve the literacy rate as well as quality of primary education in the district.


http://www.nchd.org.pk/


Jiwan Das

Designation: Consultant

Organization: Food and agriculture Organization (FAO), UN


Work Phone: 021 5867300

Work Fax: 021 5867300


Profile

Mr. Das has Masters degrees in Public Administration from the University of Sindh and in Rural Development from Wye College, University of London. Presently he is working as a Program Officer with the Save the Children Fund (UK). Previously, he was a Program

Coordinator for Oxfam. Mr. Das has also worked with IUCN as Coordinator Community Development, where his work included developing strategies for community participation in

natural resource management, particularly in mangrove forests in the coastal areas of Karachi.



Lal Jan Muhammad

Designation: Team Leader

Organization: Health and Rural Development

Cohort: 1997-1999 -

Cohort 6

Work Phone: 081 449775

Work Fax: 081 853444


Profile

Mr. Lal Muhammad holds two Masters degrees in Economics and History from the

University of Balochistan. He is currently working with the Institute for Development Studies and Practice (IDCP). His work includes promotions managing and the establishment of the institute. He is also responsible for the coordination of the institute with national and

international centres of research and learning. He assists the board in policy making, future planning, and the design and implementation of training courses. Mr. Lal is an advocate of

female education and has done several projects for the government of Balochistan, local NGOs, and Community Based Organizations in setting up financially sustainable projects. He has also worked on the capacity building of NGOs and Community Based Organizations

and government line departments, often through community participation. Mr. Lal has also visited Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka for the study of community participation.



Muhammad Jehanzeb Khan

Designation: Secretary

Organization: Livestock & Dairy Development Department, GOP


Work Phone: +33 (1) 45 63 53 62

Work Fax: +33 (1) 45 63 53 66


Profile

Mohammad Jehanzeb Khan is Commercial Counsellor of Pakistan in France. Prior to this assignment, he worked in the economic departments of the provincial governments of Punjab and North West Frontier Province in Pakistan. His varied experience includes stints

as the chief executive of district management overseeing the full range of public services in a territorial jurisdiction. Jehanzeb practiced public economic management, project planning

and social development. He designed and led public sector and governance reform programmes supported by multilateral agencies.

Jehanzeb experimented with participatory approaches for rural uplift and improvement of public services. He successfully implemented small infrastructure projects through

community involvement and innovative financing. He regularly speaks at training institutions and is a resource for International Union for Conservation of Nature, UNDP and UNICEF. He was member of President's Task Force on Human Development, is a volunteer

for the National Commission for Human Development and remained associated with the follow up of Beijing Conference on Women.

Born in Peshawar, Jehanzeb is a medical graduate, an alumnus of Pakistan's Civil Services Academy, a MBA (Public Service) from the University of Birmingham, U.K and a LEAD

Fellow. He is trained in conflict resolution and team building. His academic concentration is public private partnerships. He is married and has two children.



Nasrullah Khan


Organization: Centre for Peace and Development (CPD) -

Balochistan


Work Phone: +92 81 2832839

Work Fax: +92 81 2863140


Web: http:// www.cpdbalochistan.org

Profile

Mr. Nasrullah earned his M. Phil in Environmental Management from Baluchistan University of information technology, engineering and social sciences his research was on socio-

economic impact of water depletion in district Pishin, Baluchistan. he also has Masters in Rural Development from the University of Sindh, with a special focus on gender relations and agrarian change and LLB degree from University of Baluchistan.

Currently he is working as Executive Director with Centre for Peace and Development

Baluchistan his work involves the overall management of CPD, Supervision of 60 members professional team of organization and ensuring different projects including promotion of Peace, Human rights, Democracy and good governance along with Sustainable Land

Management, child health.

Mr. Nasrullah successfully implemented the different projects of Oxfam GB in capacity of Project Manager in Baluchistan including the drought rehabilitation project in district Nushki Baluchistan, he also worked as coordinator for Baluchistan office of Aurat Publication and

Information Service Foundation His work was coordinating their Political Education Program, and disseminating information to rural women. Apart from this he also works on

the gender sensitization of government officials, media, political workers and social activists.

Mr. Nasrullah has also successfully implemented the World Bank-funded project, Urban

Fellowship Program, for female education in different cities of Baluchistan. Mr. Nasrullah has written many articles that have been published in various environmental and political journals



Shahzad Hussain

Designation: Senior Manager (PG)

Organization: Crescent Textile Mills Limited


Work Phone: + + 92 41 111 105 105 Ext

3136

Work Fax: + 92 41 111 103 104


Profile

Mr. Hussain earned his degree in Mechanical Engineering (with Honours) from the University of Engineering and Technology Lahore Pakistan. Currently he is working with the

Crescent Group in Engineering zone of the Crescent Textile Mills Ltd. Faisalabad Pakistan. Here his main responsibilities are safe and efficient operation of 30 MW captive power plant

along with its auxiliaries like waste heat boilers,compressors etc. and also effective implementation of Integrated Management System (ISO 9001 & ISO 14001).He has worked on many energy conservation projects and also worked on upgrading and

modernization of the plant. Mr. Hussain was a member of the team who worked for complete documentation, implementation and certification of Integrated Management

System (ISO 9001 and ISO 14001).He is an internal auditor of IMS standards. Crescent Textiles has installed Waste water Treatment Plant and Mr. Hussain was fully involved in its designing, installation & commissioning. Crescent had selected him as a Six Sigma Black

Belt and now he has become internationally certified Six Sigma Black belt. Mr. Hussain has also been involved in formulating company EHS dept.



Shakoor Malik


Organization: ZSM Management Inc


Work Phone: 905-624-3777

Work Fax: 905-624-0216


Web: http://zsm.ca

Profile

Shakoor MALIK is the founding president of Social Advancement Towards Humanity (SATH), an NGO working for the protection and regeneration of the environment. Under the umbrella of SATH, conducted seminars, workshops and other awareness campaigns on

issues such as environment, sustainable development, education, health, biodiversity and women's empowerment. Mr. Malik is the founder and editor of the magazine "Green Times

International", which provides an information exchange platform for discussions of environment and sustainable development.

Currently, he is associated with a textile manufacturing group (Hira Mills) in the capacity of ISO coordinator and marketing executive. His role is to gradually build up the capability of

the mill to qualify for and complete ISO certification. He has also directed a non-formal home schools project for poor communities in Lahore, and has helped in setting up several such schools. He is an associate member of Greenpeace International and Forum of

Democratic Leaders in Asia Pacific. He has a master's degree in applied psychology from Punjab University in Lahore, where he specialized in social research, guidance and

counseling.


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Siddiq Ahmed Khan

Designation: Senior Director

Organization: Community Services Upper FATA Livelihood

Development Program- Save the Children-US


Work Phone: ++92-51 710 1155

Work Fax: ++92-51 2652551


Profile

Mr. Khan earned his Masters in Public Administration from the University of Peshawar. He is presently working with the child-fostering organization, Plan International as National

Project Manager for the Universal Birth Registration Project. Previously he worked with IUCN as NGOs Coordinator in their Sarhad Program where his responsibilities included the

implementation of the NGO component of the Sarhad Provincial Conservation Strategy (SPCS). This involved networking amongst NGOs, and assisting with their capacity-building to ensure their efficient performance. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors

of the Frontier Resource Center, a capacity-building institution for the NGOs and Community Based Organizations of NWFP. Earlier he worked with the Sungi Development

Foundation, and developed their savings and credit program, in addition to initiating their multi-sectoral development programs in Haripur district. Apart from carrying out various surveys and need assessment workshops, Mr. Khan has been part of the teams for

evaluation of NGOs like Sungi, Baahn Beli and Mansehra Village Support Project. His future plans are to help the NGOs in NWFP integrate environment into their development

programs. After having worked for Plan International as Programme Unit Manager and National Project Manager for nine years, Mr. Khan has recenlty joined UNDP Pakistan as the

National Project Manager for Gender Justice and Protection Project.



Ms. Halima bibi


Work Address: Barani Area Development Project 102, New Defence Colony , Shami Road,

Peshawar Pakistan


Profile

Mrs. Halima Saeed received dual Masters degrees in International Relations and Political

Science from the University of Peshawar, Pakistan. She is currently working as a Training & Women in Development Coordinator with the Asian Development Bank-funded Barani Area Development Project (BADP), Peshawar. As a project-based employee of Environment

Development Consultants (Pvt.) Ltd., she works for the BADP and coordinates two departments of Training and Women's Development, which includes coordination between

the Barani Development Office and the implementing line agencies of BADP. Ms. Halima is also responsible for monitoring, reviewing and planning development activities in various sectors of agriculture extension, livestock extension, horticulture extension, forestry and

range, rural infrastructure and village level development. She is an active member of the Swat Environmental Protection Society and has arranged a number of seminars and walks

for environmental awareness. She is also working for the Society of Human Rights and Child Labour, and has organized workshops in collaboration with the International Labour Organization. Her future goal is to form an integrated rural development NGO for Swat,

which is her native region. Through this NGO she would like to work with local institutions and government departments to give input for accelerating the process of sustainable

development.


Ms. Mehjabeen Abidi Habib

Designation: Natural Scientist/Senior Research Fellow

Organization: Sustainable Development Study Centre/GCU,

Government College University Lahore

Work Address: 72, Nisar Road, Lahore Cantt

Work Phone: 042-6680126,



Profile

Mehjabeen Abidi-Habib is research scholar in human ecology at Government College University Lahore. Based in Pakistan, she has been a development practioner specializing in community development and natural resource management for 20 years. She is currently

engaged in a PhD on environmental management as well as researching a forthcoming book, 'Water in the Wilderness: People, Biodiversity and Wetlands in Pakistan'with

assistance from the Heinrich Boll Foundation. With an early professional foundation rooted in field work with poor community in remote

areas of Pakistan, Ms Abidi-Habib has then worked for the UN in Pakistan for the past seven years - most recently managing the Global Environment Facility's Small Grants Program in

the province of Punjab. Before this, she worked for UNICEF as Program Officer for Women and Child Rights. In the early part of her career she has worked with the Aga Khan Rural Support Program, GTZ (The German Agency for Technical Cooperation) and the World

Conservation Union (IUCN). Now she is preparing to enter the academic world and bring her practical experience to the research field in Pakistan.

She was appointed Chair of the Board of Directors of LEAD International in 2008 and is engaged in several other honorary trustee positions with local and regional organizations.

Ms Abidi Habib has a master's degree in Applied Plant Sciences from Imperial College

London. She is the editor of 'Green Pioneers', published by the UN Development Program. The book is a compilation of 20 profiles of environment and development innovators in Pakistan. She is a LEAD Fellow.



Ms. Rehana Shaikh



Work Phone: 051 2228512

Work Fax: 051 2228513



Web: http://www.org.pk

Profile

Ms. Rehana Shaikh specializes in public policy, project management, Gender, partnership

development, training and facilitation. Her public policy and management expert

experience is spread over 20 years in social sector development in Pakistan. She has done

MSc in Public Policy and Management from Monash University, Australia and also holds a

Masters degree in Rural Development from Wye College of London /Jamshoro University

Hyderabad, Pakistan. In addition, she has also received a number of short training in

Pakistan and abroad. She has served in rural and urban settings, all over Pakistan. She

has also worked on short term assignments in Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Her work

experience included interaction with government ministries, departments, local

governments, donors, civil society organizations and communities. She has worked at

senior management positions in mainstream development organizations. The organizations

she worked with include, British Council/ DFID, Save the Children (UK), Agha Khan

Foundation, Raasta Development Consultants, Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (A World

Bank Project), Sungi Development Foundation ( A national NGO), and British Council/DFID.

She has also taken up short term assignments with World Bank, Asia Foundation, Asian

Development Bank, UNICEF, CIDA, ILO, and various other National and International NGOs.

She has traveled in USA, Costa Rica, Australia, Netherlands, UK, Bangladesh, Afghanistan

India, and Thailand.



Ms. Rehana Zubair Khilji

Designation: Community Development Coordinator

Organization: giZ RAHA


Work Phone: 081-2829368


Web: http://www.giz.de

Profile

Rehena KHILJI is Coordinator GIZ-RAHA in Balochistan, which is one of the Donor Programme to support NGOs projects in Refugee Affected and Hosting Areas. Rehana worked as In-Charge of Community Services Unit with UNHCR Sub Office Quetta for one

year, where apart from leading the Unit, she led the Protection Cluster as well as GBV Sub Cluster and Sub Thematic Working Group in Balochistan. She also worked for two years as

Team Leader of HOPE Pakistan, working in the areas of Climate Change, Livelihood Security, Gender Equality and Humanitarian Assistance in Balochistan Province. She presented HOPE-Pak Climate & Gender Justice tribunal's findings at UNFCC NGO events in

COP15 as well as GCP mGlobal Assemble 2010 and at UN CSW 54th session March 2010. She worked for five years with Concern Worldwide as Manager Capacity Building and

Program Support & played vital role in taking forward strategic issues including gender equality, socail protection, HIV & AIDS, Disaster Risk Reduction, Advocacy and Human Rights Programming. She worked as Director Gender and Development with Strengthening

Participatory Organizations (SPO) in Islamabad. SPO works on the capacity building of community based NGOs in Pakistan. Her responsibilities include designing gender sensitive

programmes, developing gender policy and strategy for the organization, heading the Women Emancipation Programme of SPO, integrating gender into the programming of SPO as mainstream, advocating gender at different levels of organization and with other

stakeholders, designing, monitoring the gender programme in the organization and supporting the agenda of Women's development for the country plan of action and at

different international platforms. She has also worked on several irrigation and agriculture projects for these organizations in Northern Baluchistan. She also served as focal point for issues relating to the environment in her organization.

Rehana was selected as Global Leader for Tomorrow by World Economic Forum in 2001.

She is also NGO Advisory Council member of World Agriculture Forum, St. Louis USA. In 1995, the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock awarded R. Khilji a gold medal for

"Best Woman of Agriculture in Pakistan". She is also awarded as best women in agriculture and rural development by the prime-ministers programme in March 1999. She has also been selected by the Common Wealth Foundation for an NGO study on poverty eradication

in Uganda and Kenya. Rehana is a volunteer member on the National Steering Committee


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of Global Environment facility of UNDP and is on the Board of Directors of the Micro-Finance bank (Khushali Bank) of Pakistan.

She is a former member on the Advisory Board for Women & development, with the

Federal ministry of Women's development. She participated in World Forum of Mayors on Cities and Desertification in Germany (June 99), as a technical expert from Pakistan.

R. Khilji has a master's degree in political science from Baluchistan University, and a bachelor's in Biology from the University Arkansas (USA.), along with an associate degree

in agronomy from State University of New York at Alfred.


Ms. Zeba Ali



Profile

Zeba Ali is currently working for Environment Canada as an Economist for the Regulatory

and Economic Analysis Branch. She is involved in researching, assessing, and developing tools to provide strategic economic advise on federal regulations. Much of the work involves detailed assessment of specific departmental regulations, usually as part of a formal

Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement (RIAS).

Zeba ALI has worked as deputy project coordinator with the Environmental Technology Program for Industry (ETPI), a project of National Environmental Consulting. Her work

involves the financial analysis of environmental audits of industries, development of technical papers for ETPI partner organizations and management of the ETPI core team. By integrating the fields of economics and environment, she has broadened the scope of her

work, which now ranges from feasibility studies to socio-economics studies of Pakistan's environmental problems.

Z. Ali completed her Masters in Environmental Studies Programme from York University in 2001. As part of the programme she also did an internship at the Environmental Accounts

and Statistics Division at Statistics Canada.

Z. Ali also has a master's degree in economics from the University of Karachi (1989). She also completed a short-term course at Tufts University in environmental management and natural resource economics (1993), for which she studied methodologies for environmental

economic evaluation of the mangrove ecosystem in the Indus Delta.



COHORT 5


Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Chaudhary

Designation: Professor

Organization: University of Karachi

Cohort: 1996-1998 - Cohort

5

Work Fax: 92 21 4819018-9


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Web: http://www.iccs.edu

Profile

Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary is a Professor of Organic Chemistry and Acting Director at

International Center for Chemical Sciences (H. E. J. Research Institute of Chemistry and Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research). He is among the most

prominent scientists of Pakistan recognized for his original contributions in the fields of natural products and bioorganic chemistry. He has written and edited 15 books, most of which have been published in USA and Europe. He is also the author of over 500 research

papers and chapters in top international science journals of the West. This is by far the largest number of quality publications from any scientist in Pakistan of his age group. He

has been the most cited scientist of Pakistan in last five years. He is the Volume Editor of an international book series, "Studies in Medicinal Chemistry" (the Netherlands) and Editor of international science journals, “Mini Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry” and “Current

Bioactive Compounds” published from Amsterdam. He has served as a visiting faculty and research associate in many prestigious universities of the world including Cornell University

(New York), Purdue University (Indiana), Pennsylvania State University (Pennsylvania), the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California at San Diego, California) and University of Barcelona, Spain.

Dr. Choudhary has skillfully used his deep understanding of chemical principles and

biological processes in the discovery of a large number of fascinating molecules with potential therapeutic applications. More specifically his research group has discovered and

studied new inhibitors of clinically important enzymes, which can be used to stop the disease processes involve in the enzyme-related disorders. As a result several new classes of lead molecules were made known to the world of science along with associated

understanding of their mechanism of action.

His work has also resulted in a number of important scientific discoveries including the discovery of plant materials with pronounced antidiabetic, anti-epileptic and cholesterol-lowering activities. Many of the structurally novel compounds isolated by his research group

were found to have interesting pharmacological profiles and are in different stages of efficacy trials. Prof. Choudhary has won several national and international awards such as



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Hilal-e-Imtiaz (2007), Sitara-e-Imtiaz (2002) and Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (1998) by the President of Pakistan, Pakistan Academy of Sciences Gold Medal, National Book Foundation

Prize on best book and the Third World Academy of Sciences Young Scientist Prize. He received the prestigious title of “Distinguish National Processor” from the Higher Education

Commission in 2004. He is a member and fellow of many prestigious societies including Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences, Islamic Academy of Sciences, Chemical Society of Pakistan, Royal Society of Chemistry (London), and LEAD-International. Very

recently received 1st Khawarizmi International Award and Prize from the President of Islamic Republic of Iran. Dr. Choudhary currently serving as the convener of the National

Core Group in Pakistan of the Government of Pakistan.


DR. SAEED ISMAIL

Designation: Chairman

Organization: Health and Nutrition Development Society (HANDS)



Profile

Dr. Saeed Ismail did his MBBS from Dow Medical College Karachi in 1983. He received his

MCPS in paediatrics from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan in 1986.

Besides being a child specialist, he has extensive experience in community health and development. He is the founder member of the Health and Nutrition Development Society (HANDS)http://www.hands.org.pk, which is a registered, tax exempted, PCP Certified and

European Union Accredited, Not for Profit Organization.. HANDS is currently benefiting more than 13 million population of 16,703 villages in 13districts of Pakistan .It works in the

sectors of health, education ,poverty alleviation and rural development with cross cutting programs of Social Mobilization, Gender, Human and Institutional Development and Disaster Management( Rescue, Relief and Rehabilitation). He was also actively involved in

Baahn Beli an NGO from 1985 to 2005 which is a NGO working in the sectors of health, education and rural development. He is also actively involved in Baanhn Beli an NGO

formed by an urban rural development alliance. Baanhn Beli exposes urban professionals to rural areas. It has multi-sector programs in health, education, water resource development and income generation in the remote areas of Tharparkar Desert. Dr. Saeed has conducted

many workshops on primary health care and community mobilization for doctors, postgraduates, paramedics, community health workers, mothers and various NGOs.

He is also a fellow of LUMS McGill SEDC (Social Enterprise Development Centre).Under this programme he under went training as Master Trainer with specialization in People and Organization. He has also completed his training for MBA degree from IBA Karachi.



Abdul Qadir Rafiq

Designation: Project Manager, Environment and Energy, Poverty

Reduction and Environment Protection Programme

Organization: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)


Work Phone: +254 20 425 5189

Work Fax: +254 20 425 5101


Web: http://www.un.org.pk

Profile

Mr. Rafiq holds a Masters degree in Water Resources from the University of Newcastle upon

Tyne, England, and a Bachelors degree in Agricultural Engineering from the University of

Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan.

Currently, Mr. Rafiq is working as Project Manager, Environment and Energy, Poverty

Reduction and Environment Protection Programme portfolio with the United Nations

Development Programme (UNDP) in Somalia. The main areas of involvement include

providing substantive inputs for programme development, policy advice, programme

implementation and resource mobilization for high priority initiatives in the areas of

environment, climate change, energy and water resources management.

Prior to joining UNDP, Mr. Rafiq was working as a consultant with the National Engineering

Services of Pakistan (NESPAK). Mr. Rafiq has been involved in the planning and designing

of the Dera Ghazi Khan Integrated Drainage and Irrigation Project, the Drainage Sector

Environmental Asessment Study, the National Drainage Program and the Muzaffargarh

Canal Command Project. He has to his credit a number of papers on the water and

environment issues.


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Abdul-Rahim Basit Khan

Designation: Chief, HSE and Community Development

Organization: MOL Oil & Gas Company B.V.



Profile

Basit has 20 years of experience in the Oil & Gas, Conservation and Development sectors

dealing with multi-disciplinary issues related to Health Safety & Environment (HSE), corporate responsibility, conservation, and rural development. He has worked in India,

Pakistan and United Kingdom with various Oil & Gas operators namely Premier Oil, Shell, KUFPEC and MOL. Apart from international Oil & Gas operating experience; he has managed a portfolio of consulting projects on the UK Continental Shelf related to permitting

and consents, risk assessment, EMS audits, Pre-FEED/FEED environmental reviews, and decommissioning planning.

He has been a member of a wide variety of professional affiliations – including Fellow, Leadership for Environment & Development (LEAD) and Member of International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA).

Mr Khan is a graduate Civil Engineer with Masters in Environmental Engineering from

Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London. He also holds a Specialist NEBOSH Diploma in Environmental Management. Mr. Khan presently works for a British environmental consultancy, Metoc plc, based in Hampshire, as an Associate Director

responsible for the Oil & Gas business.

He has been an avid cyclist, a keen trekker and loves the outdoors.



Altaf a. Abro

Designation: Program Manager,

Organization: EC Food Security Project, Oxfam Novib



Profile

Dr. Abro is a Development specialist and a researcher. He has Ph.D. in Public Policy from

the University of Arkansas, USA. Prior to Ph.D. program, he earned master degrees in Sociology from University of Sindh, Pakistan and other from Rural, Regional Development

Planning from Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. He also has several local and foreign short course training/certificates to his credit.

He has recently finished working with the Oxfam Novib as a manager on a European Commission funded Food Facility project in Pakistan. He has more than 12 years of

international development experience; for past five years he has served in a senior position. His professional profile includes:

• Program development and management, and capacity building of partner NGOs in the areas of rural development, livelihoods, food security and sustainable food production;

• Managing grant portfolio ensuring the effective implementation of quality programming and compliance of donors including the CIDA and the EC funded projects; • Coordination with program units to develop high quality concept notes and proposals;

• Preparation of annual technical and financial reports, and policy briefs; • Design monitoring & evaluation plans, compiling and communication of research results;

• Coordinate humanitarian, policy and advocacy work to integrate livelihoods, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation approaches for sustainable development; • Liaise with multilateral stakeholders (government, NGOs, donors, and private sector).

Dr. Abro’s areas of professional and intellectual interests are: climate change adaptation,

disaster risk reduction and humanitarian work, food security, agriculture and rural livelihoods, natural resources management and environmental conservation, women’s economic empowerment and poverty alleviation. He is also associated with several

research, training, advocacy and policy institutions, NGOs and civil society institutions in Pakistan and abroad.



Hasan Yahya Zaidi

Designation: Chief Executive

Organization: Tamarind Media


Work Phone: +92-21-35344477

Work Fax: +92-21-35345954


Web: http://www.tamarindmedia.com

Profile

Mr. Zaidi is a filmmaker, journalist and media consultant and is also the Festival Director of

the Karachi International Film Festival (Kara Film). He has directed and produced a number of films including documentaries, shorts, music videos and an award-winning feature and

has written and spoken extensively on Pakistani cinema. As a journalist, he has wide experience in print, television, radio and internet both within Pakistan and internationally

and has won the All Pakistan Newspapers Society's award for journalistic excellence three times. He has written on and produced broadcast material on a range of issues including politics, culture, development, environment, urban affairs, grassroots organizations, health

and human rights. The prestigious media organizations he has worked for include NBC News (USA), Channel News Asia (Singapore), India Today (India), Herald (Pakistan), Geo

TV (Pakistan) and Dawn (Pakistan). In addition, he has served as a media consultant for a number of organizations including the Government of Pakistan, Aaj TV and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID). He also has experience in the NGO

sector, having worked earlier for the NGO Resource Centre in Karachi and a rural development programme in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. In 1998 he co-

authored an UNICEF-published book on the evolution of a rural development organization in the Thar Desert of Sindh. He has also worked as a volunteer teacher with displaced Mozambican children in Zimbabwe in 1991. In 2003 he was nominated as a 'Global Leader

for Tomorrow' in the Media by the World Economic Forum. He currently serves on the Board of Governors of LEAD Pakistan.


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Mohammad Azhar Qureshi


Organization: Eco-Conservation Initiatives (ECI)


Work Phone: 92 51 4446362,

Work Fax 0092 51 4446362

Email [email protected],

[email protected]

Web http://www.eci-networks.org

Profile

Mr. Qureshi is directly responsible for management & operation of a development organization known as Eco-Conservation Initiatives (ECI) with focus on integrated

agriculture, food security, bio-fuels promotion through exploitation of the marginalized land, human resource development, ecological conservation, environmental management,

climate change adaptations and changing livelihood patterns. Currently, he is supervising agricultural development projects in sugarcane, cotton, date-palms, paddy, fruit and vegetables focusing on reduction and elimination of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) as

well as model network of livestock farmers for poverty reduction. He is deeply involved in research, development and public policy for integrated production and ecological

conservation based on Training of Trainers (TOT) and Farmer Field Schools (FFS) with the involvement of about 200,000 farmers at the grassroots level throughout Pakistan. At present, he is running collaborative field based capacity building projects in partnership

with United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Institute of Management Sciences (IMS), Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP), Directorate of Women Development

(DWD) Government of Sindh, Human Development Foundation (HDF), Kuchlak Welfare Society (KWS) and various Sugar Mills in Pakistan by managing multi-stakeholders partnership involving NGOs, government and the corporate sector. Because of his

continued success in sustainable integrated production approach by manipulating cropping system patterns, The Pakistan Society of Sugar Technologists (PSST) awarded him a Gold

Medal and the honorary shield in recognition of his role in the industry. He has traveled extensively and possesses in-depth skills in project development, resource

mobilization, networking, strategic planning, community organization, transfer of technology, agri-business plan development and to organize training workshops, seminars,

symposia, exposure visits, etc. Mr. Qureshi is also one of the highly active Fellows of Leadership for Environment and

Development (LEAD), a global leadership program initially supported by the Rockefeller


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Foundation. He is playing an active role in Pakistan NGOs Forum (PNF) and UN sponsored Netaid Global Program with focus on sustainable development, education and poverty

alleviation. He has also worked as consultant to a number of organizations including LEAD-Pakistan, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), OXFAM-GB, Church World Service

Pakistan/Afghanistan (CWS-P/A), WWF-Pakistan, Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Hunting Technical Services (HTS), Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC), Ministry of Climate Change and a wide

range of Sugar Mills in the corporate sector.

Currently, Mr. Qureshi is also serving as Chairman Soon Valley Development Programme, Executive Board Member of Pakistan German Friendship Association (PGFA), member Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA), board member of CHAMBELI, an Institute of

handicapped children and Kuchlak Welfare Society (KWS), Balochistan.

Mr. Qureshi has attended and also organized numerous national and international workshops, seminars and meetings on agriculture, environment and sustainable development. He has published about twenty research papers, several survey & research

studies and edited the Proceedings of an international workshop sponsored by the Islamic Development Bank (IDB).

His future plans include: (1) To reduce and gradually eliminate the Persistent Organic

Pollutants (POPs) in agriculture & industry over the next 7 to 10 years in line with National Implementation Plan (NIP) of POPs and the Stockholm Convention ratified by Government of Pakistan, (2) To organize, manage and lead an institutional network of a diverse range

of organizations at the national and global level with one of the major aims of addressing climate change issues in their all forms and manifestations.


Muhammad Irshad Ramay

Designation: Coordinator

Organization: National Cleaner Production Centre (NCPC)/MBP

Attock Refinery Limited


Work Phone: 051 5450424, 5487041

Work Fax: 051 5450424


Web: http://ncpc.org.pk

Profile

Mr. M. Irshad Ramay did his M.S in Environmental Engineering and Management from Asian

Institute of Technology Bangkok-Thailand, B.Sc in Chemical Engineering from Punjab

University Lahore. He started his professional career from Pakistan Refinery Limited as a Process Engineer in year 1990 and then served in Hoechst Chemicals as Assistant Manager Production/ HSE and Attock Refinery Limited as Manager in Technical Services. He has a

wide range of experience in the field of Environment, Energy Auditing, Occupational Health and Safety, Waste Management, Process Engineering, Trouble Shooting of Refineries

Process and Projects Management. Presently he is leading National Cleaner Production Center, Rawalpindi.

National Cleaner Production Center Foundation (NCPC-F) aims to introduce and promote Cleaner Production (CP) techniques and processes for Pollution Prevention at source along

with integrated waste management. NCPC-F was established by UNIDO in 1999 and is registered under Section 42 of the Companies Ordinance, 1984 by Government of Pakistan

in 2002. NCPC-F is working as a non profit organization and is also certified by Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy and FBR.


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Nasir Ali Panhwar

Designation: Regional Program Manager, Karachi Region

Organization: The Agribusiness Project,Agribusiness Support Fund

Cohort : 1996-1998 - Cohort 5

Work Phone: 021-35865321


Profile

Mr. Nasir Ali Panhwar has a Masters degree in Sociology and has over 15 years of work

experience in development sector including institutional development, livelihood

development, natural resource management and community development related

programmes with NGOs, CBOs, national and international development agencies.

Mr. Panhwar is currently, working as Regional Program Manager, Karachi Region in The

Agribusiness Project, Agribusiness Support Fund. Prior to this, he was working with WWF as

Programme Coordinator, Indus for All Programme, at Karachi. He has worked for IUCN

Pakistan in various capacities for eight years. He played vital role in development of Sindh

State of Environment & Development (SoED) and Sindh Strategy for Sustainable

Development.

He is a prolific writer and has written extensively on social, developmental and

environmental issues and has compiled two books titled The Indus Flood 2010-

Perspectives, Issues and Strategies & Sindh at the Crossroads of Disasters.

As a volunteer, he is Founder General Secretary of Friends of Indus Forum, Council Member

of Hisaar Foundation, Member General Body of Thardeep and Founder Executive Director of

Centre for Environment Development.


Roomi s. Hayat

Designation: CEO

Organization: Institute of Rural Management


Work Phone: 92 51 2822752, 2822792

Work Fax: 92 51 2823335


Web: http://www.irm.edu.pk/

Profile

Mr. Roomi S. Hayat is regarded by most of his contemporaries as the leading authority in

the field of Capacity Development. He is equally renowned for his Management, Institutional and Rural Development expertise as well as Employable Skills for Youth.

His ground breaking work with UN Agencies for Rural Support Programmes, Training Need Analysis, Material Development, Evaluation Mechanism and Post Training Utilization Study

has been acknowledged. The recent focus on capacity development and skill enhancement, especially Vocational Skills in Pakistan has taken its guidance from Mr. Hayat’s pioneering work.

He is CEO of IRM; the largest specialized capacity development Institute in Pakistan which

is also a channel of his Change and Result oriented constructive thinking. He is also founding Chairperson of HRDN, an international network of HR professionals, besides being on the Board of Directors of many organizations. His advice is sought by organizations,

Government officials and consultants dealing on a macro level in diverse field of Management Policies, Programmes for literacy and post literacy, Rural Economy, Gender

Equality, Youth Employment and Institutional Development. He holds two Master Degrees in Rural Sociology and Mechanical Engineering from Pakistan

and USA respectively. He has represented Pakistan on international forums in SAARC and Asia pacific and Europe regarding Youth, Education and Employment. Mr. Hayat’s name has

almost become synonymous with Human Resource Development across Pakistan and his prolific contributions in the field of HRD for over two decades took him to all continents of the world.


http://www.irm.edu.pk/


Sajjad Ismail

Designation: Education Specialist

Organization: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)


Work Phone: +254-207622138

Cell Phone: +254-710-820828


Web: http://www.unicef.org

Profile

Mr. Ismail has a Masters degree in History from the University of Punjab. He also holds a

degree in Education (B.Ed.).

Mr. Ismail is an educationist by profession. He has an extensive experience, national and international, in planning and managing education programmes during emergency,

transition and development. He has worked with the Government, non-government and UN organizations for nearly fifteen years. He has wide range of sectoral experiences such as in

educaton, literacy, WASH in Schools, Child Labour, Urban Sanitation, and waste management.

He is currently working for UNICEF as Education Specialist – Kenya. He is engaged in planning, managing and monitoring of Quality Education through Child Friendly Schools and

Emergency response for the children in Kenya. Additionally, he is leading on alternate basic education approaches for the refugee children from Somalia into Dadaab, world's largest refugee camp, as well as for the pastoralist children in the host communities.

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Tahir Rasheed

Designation: National Project Manager

Organization: Sustainable Use Specialist Group-Central Asia


Work Phone: +92 81 2451551

Cell Number: 92-333-7901885


Profile

Tahir Rasheed is currently affiliated with IUCN’s Sustainable Use Specialist Group-Central

Asia (SUSG-CAsia) as CEO. Prior to this, he worked with different international and national

organizations in different capacities. He holds master degrees in forestry and rural

development with a specialization in watershed management. He has been working since

1990 in the field of community based natural resource management in different capacities.

During his career, he acquired the necessary skills of community based planning,

monitoring & evaluation, developing linkages & coordination, and implementing integrated

conservation and developmental projects especially with the communities of the country.

Based on his qualification and practical understanding of environmental and social issues,

he have been involved in conducting number of socio-ecological studies, developing policy

documents (management plans, Development and Conservation Plans, manuals etc) and

also provided professional input to WWF-Indo-China, Vietnam Kalpavriksh India in

formulating Environmental Education Strategy and national report on Community

Conserved Areas of Pakistan. Simultaneously he has also been serving as master trainer in

the field of environment and development for the Governmental and non-governmental

institutions. Being LEAD and ELP fellow he has demonstrated leadership qualities along with

inter-personal and team building skills in the communities, he works with. His training in

Forestry, Rural Development, and work experience with different communities provided him

a good mix of experience regarding local, regional and international environmental and

social issues. His interests include protecting bio-diversity, empowering grassroots

organizations, and sustainable management of natural resources. He is concerned with the

linkages between the environment and development and the way international negotiations

affect the indigenous communities.



Ms. Ismat Gul Khattak


Organization: I.L. Pakistan National Accreditation Council (PNAC),

Ministry of Science & Technology


Work Phone: 00971507151449


Profile

Ms Khattak currently works with the Accreditation Department of Emirates Authority for Standardization and Metrology, Dubai. Her job is to develop their systems to meet

international requirements of ILAC and IAF. She is also responsible for launching new schemes of accreditation.

She holds two Master degrees: Master of Environmental Management from University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, and Master of Science in Chemistry from University of

Peshawar, Pakistan. She was awarded AUSAID and AIDAB scholarships.

She has over 18 years of professional experience of working at the national and international level. During her job with the Pakistan National Accreditation Council as Director Industrial Labs her job iwa to accredit industrial labs according to ISO 17025. She

is Lead Assessor for ISO 17025, ISO 17021, ISO 17020 and ISO 15189. She received her basic training in the field of accreditation from the Norwegian Accreditation, SWEDAC

(Swedish Accreditation Board) and Chinese National Accreditation Body for Labs (CNAL). She is a trainer for developing international accreditation systems and processes, measurement uncertainity, method validation and proficiency testing etc.. She is also a

Lead auditor ISO 9001 (Pakistan), 14001 (Australia & Pakistan) and 18001 (Indonesia).

In United Nations Development Programme, Islamabad her job focussed on Pakistan's preparation in the run-up to the World Summit on Sustainable Development. She has worked with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London on issues of sustainable

development. In Pakisan she has worked Environmental Protection Agency where she was resposible for screeing public and private sector projects for EIAs. She has also worked with

United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) as a Provisional Coordinator in Pakistan.

She has represented Pakistan in various conferences and workshops and has represented papers on various topics in different parts of the world. Ms Khattak has well-developed

computer skills and is proficent in English, Urdu and Pushto.



Ms. Razina Bilgrami

Designation: Programme Advisor / Deputy Chief South & West

Asia Division

Organization: Regional Bureau for Asia & Specific (UNDP)



Profile

Ms. Bilgrami is working with the United Nations Development Programme as the Head of Programmes and Deputy Country Director in Sri Lanka. Her key responsibility, as part of

the Senior Management team, is to manage the UNDP programme portfolio focusing on Poverty Reduction, Governance, Energy and Environment, and Crisis Prevention and

Recovery. Prior to taking on this assignment in May 2010, Ms. Bilgrami worked at UNDP Headquarters in New York for eight years, as Programme Advisor and Deputy Chief in the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific. Her key responsibility was to oversee and

backstop UNDP operations in Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka amongst other countries. She has been heading the Bureau's task force on Programme Results Analysis and

Oversight. Until Aug 2002, Ms Bilgrami was Assistant Resident Representative and the Chief of the

Environment Unit at the UNDP office in Pakistan, providing substantive inputs such as policy advice, strategic decision-making, advocacy, programme planning and advisory

services, results-based management, for the organization's programme in Pakistan. She remained responsible for overseeing and managing the environment portfolio of UNDP-Pakistan, consisting of projects funded by the Global Environment Facility in the focal areas

of biodiversity and climate change. She was instrumental in expanding the scope of UNDP's environment portfolio to work under a programmatic framework. She spearheaded

extensive donor coordination efforts in this regard, while working in close collaboration with the Ministry of Environment for realizing this goal. Her previous assignment was with National Environmental Consulting as Projects Manager, where she was involved in the

planning, design, management, coordination and implementation of environmental management projects (EIAs, Environmental Audits, and Environmental Management Plans)

in the industrial sector, particularly in the leather tanning industry. Upon securing a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the NED University of

Engineering and Technology, Karachi, she was awarded a British Council Commonwealth Scholarship for a Master's degree in Environmental Engineering from the Imperial College,

London. She won the UK IPHE (Institute of Public Health Engineers) award for best dissertation titled 'Thermal Technologies for Waste Treatment, and their Environmental Impact' as part of her M.Sc programme.



Ms. Rushna Ravji Aqil

Designation: Service Delivery Technical Advisor

Organization: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)


Work Phone: 202-712-4548

Work Fax: 202-216-3048


Web: http://www.usaid.gov

Profile

Dr. Ravji is serving as the Health Team Leader for Asia and the Middle East, Bureau for

Global Health, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Washington. She is responsible for providing strategic direction to health development programs in Asia and the Middle East focusing on maternal and child health; family planning and

reproductive health; HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, avian influenza, and other public health threats; and health system strengthening. Before moving to this position, she was

working as the Technical Advisor, Office of Population and Reproductive Health, Bureau for Global Health, USAID/Washington. She was responsible for guiding and leading the Maximizing Access and Quality (MAQ), and Implementing Best Practices (IBP) portfolios,

and providing technical leadership to US $135 million Extending Service Delivery Project for improving reproductive health and family planning (RH/FP) service delivery. Dr. Ravji’s

other leadership positions include: Deputy Director and Director, HIV/AIDS Technical Unit for the Synergy Project, responsible for providing strategic, programmatic and technical direction to the $50 million HIV/AIDS Project; Country Representative for the CATALYST

Consortium, Pakistan Office, providing technical and management support to the USAID/Pakistan Mission for leading and implementing $115 million health and population

portfolio; Chief, HPN/USAID Pakistan before its closure in 1993; and Health Specialist, Multi-Donor Support Unit, World Bank. She has also served in senior positions with the Aga Khan University and Plan International, USA.

Dr. Ravji has excellent leadership, communication and interpersonal skills. She has written several papers and reports. She has travelled extensively and has worked in Asia, Africa, Europe and North and South America. She is member of several public health organizations

such as the American Public Health Association, White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, and International Action Working Group. She co-authored a chapter, Health in Pakistan: A

Security Imperative, for a book, Understanding Pakistan, which was published by the Military Academy, West Point, New York.


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Syed Mahmood Nasir

Designation: Director Biodiversity / Deputy Secretary International

Cooperation

Organization: Ministry of Climate Change



[email protected]

Profile

Syed Mahmood Nasir holds a Masters degree in Forestry, a post-graduate diploma in

Geographical Information Systems GIS from the ITC the Netherlands and is enrolled as a

PhD scholar in anthropology at the Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad (Dissertation on

Bakarwal nomads).

He is widely travelled during his career in the field of forestry and environment. He was the

elected president of the Students' Association Board at ITC where he actively worked in the

social, cultural and academic affairs with people of approximately 40 nationalities.

He has good mixed experience as a forestry and environmental practitioner and at the

policy, practitioner and research levels. He has served in the Forest Department as

Conservator of Forests, the federal Ministry of Environment as DIG Forests, Director

Biodiversity and Deputy Secretary International Cooperation and now as Inspector General

of Forests in Ministry of Environment. He has also worked extensively in the non

government sector in different provinces.

He is the driving force for many environmental initiatives that include the creation of

Pakistan's largest environment related mailing list the 'All foresters', catalyzing the first

research on vulture decline in Pakistan, authoring Pakistan's First and Third Reports for the

Convention on Biodiversity and organizing pastoralists' participation in the World Gathering

of Nomads at Segovia Spain 2007 and another at CIS during June 2011. He also has more

than 12 publications and many reports on various aspects of the Environment. He has also

authored the Management Plan for Chitral Gol National Park, the first attempt to address

diverse environmental and social issues in Pakistan (December 2007).

He is considered as the main driver to bring the subject of REDD in Pakistan and font of

knowledge on diverse components of REDD. He believes that if dealt properly REDD is the

best option for Pakistan to check deforestation in the country.




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Abdul Hafeez Buzdar

Designation: Manager Corporate Social Responsibility

Organization: Tethyan Copper Company Pakistan


Work Phone: 051 2069559; 0512069225

Work Fax: 051 2854578


Profile

Mr. Buzdar holds a Masters Degree in Botany from the University of Baluchistan and

another Masters degree in Human Settlements Development with a specialization in rural

and regional development planning from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand.

He is currently working as Director Snow Leopard Foundation, Pakistan to promote

community based conservation and improve the socio-economic conditions of the people

who share fragile mountain ecosystems with carnivores. Prior to this, he worked with

Barrick Gold Corporation in Saudi Arabia and Tethyan Copper Company in Pakistan as

Manager Community Relations. In that role, he was responsible to accomplish the corporate

commitments of the joint venture partners for providing lasting benefits to local

communities by supporting sustainable initiatives that develop social, economic and

institutional resources in the region.

Mr. Buzdar also worked with Oxfam GB, ADB, World Bank, IFAD, CIDA, JICA and GTZ in the

social development sector and was progressively involved in responsible senior

management positions in planning designing, developing and implementing of high quality,

multi-sector social investment programs including health, water supply, education and

income generation projects in all over the country particularly in the province of

Baluchistan. He also worked with the European Commission’s Program Coordination Office

for Rural Social Development Program (RSDP) as the Deputy Country Representative in

Islamabad for more than six years. His major responsibility included fund management,

donors’ coordination and capacity building of the national NGOs of Pakistan involved in the

socioeconomic development of the rural and semi urban communities in the health and

education sectors. Mr. Buzdar is interested in biodiversity conservation, climate change,

community development, corporate social responsibility, disaster risk reduction, sustainable

livelihoods, social impact assessment and resettlement planning.



Ahmed Saeed Shaikh

Designation: Director - Monitoring Unit USAID - MSI Monitoring and

Evaluation Program (MEP)

Organization: Agency for International Development (USAID)

Cohort: 1995-1997-Cohort4

Work Phone: 92-51-2601921/2

Work Fax: 92-51-8436014

Email : [email protected]

Profile

Mr. Shaikh is an architect, urban planner and development strategist. Presently, he working as Director - Monitoring Unit USAID - MSI Monitoring and Evaluation Program

(MEP). Prior to that he was commissioned by the United Kingdom Development Fund for International Development (UK – DFID) as Team Leader and Technical Advisor for its

‘Support for Earthquake Monitoring and Evaluation Programme’ – SEMP for the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA). He is actively engaged in the process of earthquake relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction. In consultation with leading

professionals, he has designed and constructed seismic resistant prototypes, which are being adopted by international organizations. Recently he has developed and delivered a

comprehensive ‘Immersion Training Programme’ through the University of Reading – UK, including courses on ‘Statistical Analysis’, Social Surveys, Data Management, and Technical

Report Writing, He has experience of working in a number of countries, in the South Asia Region. In his

professional career, he has been a faculty, resource person, consultant and technical advisor for many international and national organizations (USAID, UNDP, NORAD, ADB, and

CIDA) and academic institutions and has successfully assumed development management positions of increasing responsibilities. During his seven years association with the Aga Khan Development Network, he has headed the portfolio of the Civil Society Programmes

and the CIDA funded Social Institutions Development Programme (SIDP). He has managed the Aga Khan Housing Board’s Built Environment Programme for multi altitude rural and

urban communities in the Northern Areas and Chitral, as well. Both these programme have been internationally acknowledged and awarded for their relevance, effectiveness, potential for bringing changes in communities’ lives and sustainability. Mr. Shaikh has degrees in

Architecture, social development, environment and planning and he has been associated with the academic institutions like the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), the school of

Environment, Resources and Development (Thailand) and recently, the Carleton University (Canada) and other training facilities such as the Rockefeller Foundation’s Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD).



Amir Said

Designation: Research Engineer

Organization: Packages Limited


Work Phone: 92 42 5811546

Work Fax: 92 42 5811195


Profile

Dr. Said received his Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from Punjab University,

Lahore. After working in one of the production departments of Packages Limited in Pakistan, he went on to earn his Ph.D. from Sheffield University in the UK. His doctoral

work focused on fuels (coal). Dr. Said is currently working as head of Research and Development Departmet at Packages Limited. The research areas include pulping, papermaking and packaging materials development.



Bilal Mustafa Syed

Designation: Manager Health & Safety- Production Division

Pluto

Organization: Woodside Energy


Work Phone: 61 (08) 91590078


Profile

Bilal has over 30 year’s operational management; engineering; Safety Health, Environment

& Corporate Social Responsibility experience. Worked at Woodside on their Pluto LNG

Project as part of the Production team, managing Health, Safety and Emergency issues that

are being transitioned from the Project phase onto an Operational Phase. Worded as a

Principal Advisor providing expert advice to the Oil&Gas & Mining /Mineral sector, business

development and undertaking technical studies to ensure that the operations are run safely

by carrying out technical risk studies

Has extensive senior management experiences alongside strong interpersonal skills have

been demonstrated in a number of multidimensional environments, different cultures &

regions, whereby have been able to bring about a change in cultural mind sets.

Implemented management systems taking into account the local environment and ensuring

safe operations in countries such as such as Australia, Romania, Pakistan, Yemen and

Vietnam. Ensured the organization achieves through implementation of systems a Zero

Harm culture by regular training programs. Previously worked at Total’s LNG Plant in

Yemen as head of Safety Operational/ Engineering & Health matters. Prior working

experience has been with OMV in Yemen, Romania and Pakistan as HSEQ& CSR Manager.

Prior to OMV have worked as the Senior Environmental Specialist at the World Bank Office

in Islamabad Pakistan and for 15 years with ICI Ltd, a British chemical multinational at

their various chemical plants.

Major responsibilities have included development of HSEQ , Security & CSR Strategy,

structures & training; transition from a projects to an operations organization; reviewed &

implemented project deliverables both in a project & operational phase; development and

implementation of environmental management systems - ISO1401; risk management using

bow tie techniques; accident investigation. Trained and implemented HSE processes based

on risk assessments. Experience of interfacing with the Regulators and ensure Safety Cases

are developed and followed through. Experienced in Environment Risk /Impact Studies.

Certified Lead Auditor – RABQSA.



Muhammad Saleem

Designation: Programme Manager - Monitoring, Evaluation and

Research

Organization: Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP)



Work Fax: 0572-2779


Profile

Mr. Saleem received his Bachelors degree in Economics while working as a Lower Division

Clerk in the government services. He continued his education at the University of Punjab,

where he received his Masters degree in Economics and at the University of Manchester, UK, where he earned an advanced postgraduate diploma in Development Economics. He currently serves as Coordinator Linkages at the AKRSP, where he is responsible for

developing linkages with government, local and international NGOs and sector and development programs. He also works part-time as an Indus River Commission Research

Project Leader on a water, sanitation, hygiene and health studies project. Here Mr. Saleem identifies the problems of improved water supply systems, the causes of these problems and then proposes solutions to these issues. The objective of the project is to build the

capacities of the communities to manage their own improved water supply systems.



Naeem Ashraf Raja

Designation: Director Biodiversity Programme

Organization: Ministry of Environment, Government of Pakistan


Work Phone: 051-9245601


Profile

Mr. Raja holds a Masters degree in Forestry and is currently affiliated with Ministry of

Environment, Government of Pakistan as Director Biodiversity Programme. He is looking after the global commitments made by Pakistan to CBD. Earlier he served as Assistant Inspector General of Forests with Ministry of Environment from 2005 to May 2011.

He worked with Punjab Forest Department from December 1995 to January 2005. During

this period he also was deputed with the Central Asia Sustainable Use Specialist Group (SUSG-CASIA)as Programme Manager from August 1997 to July 2001. SUSG-CASIA is one of the 15 regional groups formed under the auspices of IUCN's Species Survival

Commission. While working with SUSG he initiated projects for conservation of Balochistan Black Bear, Straight Horned Markhor and endemic reptiles in Chagai Desert of western

Balochistan. He started his carrier as WWF Project Officer in the Himalayan Jungle Project (HJP), a bio-

diversity conservation and development project in Palas Valley in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. Palas Valley is one of the last strongholds of internationally

threatened pheasant species the Western Tragopan.The goal of HJP was to conserve the forests and wildlife of the region by working closely with local communities and empowering them in the development of sustainable sources of income. Mr. Raja was involved with

several aspects of the project such as forest management, bio-diversity conservation, social organization and community mobilization.

Mr. Raja has published many papers and reports and conducted a number of surveys with the Pakistan Museum of Natural History and the National Agricultural Research Center

(NARC). He has participated in national, regional and international workshops and conferences dealing with moderating skills Development, project planning,monitoring and

evaluation,participatory biodiversity conservation as well as conservation of natural resources.



Qasim Yunus

Designation: Safety Advisor

Organization: SAABIC


Work Phone: 966 3 3473062

Work Fax: 966 3 3416055


Profile

Mr. Yunus received his Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from the Imperial College of

Science and Technology, London, UK.

He is currently working as a Safety Advisor in the Corporate Safety Department of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC); a major company that owns a number of

petrochemical and fertilizer plants in Saudi Arabia. His current assignments include management of the Process Safety Program (PSM), Accident Investigation, development of

safety/process management standards, training and networking between SABIC Companies.

Prior to joining SABIC, he was working as Senior Safety and Environment Advisor at Engro Chemical Pakistan Ltd.; one of the leading fertilizer manufacturers in Pakistan. Key

responsibilities at Engro were developing/implementing company policies in safety/environment; monitoring of environmental parameters; developing engineering solutions for waste/emissions reduction, implementation of environmental management

systems and training of personnel in the area of safety/environment.

Mr. Yunus started his career with Engro as a Process Engineer. In this position his key tasks were day-to-day monitoring of plant process parameters, engineering of plant modifications, conducting Safety and HAZOP reviews. Later on, he became a member of

the project team responsible for relocating two world scale plants from overseas to Pakistan. His mandate in this team was to design and specify the utility equipment

necessary for the project.



Syed Ali Mansur

Designation: Equipment Incharge, Boeing777 Aircraft Engineer

Organization: Pakistan International Airlines Corporation (PIA)


Work Phone: 021-9015356 / 5155 /5612

Work Fax: 021 45795502


Profile

Mr. Mansur has a degree in Electrical Engineering. He also holds an aircraft maintenance

engineer's license on electrical instruments & autoflight guidance systems. He is a member

of the Royal Aeronautical Society (Pak. Div.), the Society of Aircraft Engineers- Pakistan, Associate Royal Aeronautical Society UK and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (Pak). In addition, he has attended many technical courses on aviation, technology, business

administration, airline technical administration and various aspects of information technology. Currently he works as an Aircraft Engineer with the Pakistan Engineering and

Maintenance Department, Pakistan International Airlines. Mr. Mansur specializes in avionics, one of the most advanced fields in aerospace/aviation technology. He has worked on environmental issues within the airline industry and would like to further pursue this line

of work.



Arjumand Nizami

Designation: Programme Coordinator

Organization: Pakistan Inter-Cooperation, Pakistan Delegation Office


Work Phone: 0092 91 5830416, 5830254

Work Fax: 0092 91 5829594


Web: http://www.intercooperation.org.pk

Profile

Ms. Nizami did her Bachelors and Masters in Forestry from Pakistan Forest Institute in

Peshawar. Her specialization was in Farm and Energy Forestry Management / Agro-forestry. She is currently undertaking her PhD in Natural Resource Governance form Wageningen

University, Rural Development Sociology Group, the Netherlands. She currently holds the position of Programme Coordinator Pakistan in Intercooperation Pakistan in a joint capacity

with her Swiss counterpart. Intercooperation (IC) is a Swiss NGO with its Headquarters in Bern, Switzerland. IC operates in 23 countries around the world, including Pakistan. Her responsibilities in IC Pakistan include overall programme management, backstopping

projects and providing thematic and technical support and networking. Her fields of experience include management of natural resources, particularly collaborative forest

management, farm forestry, non timber forest produce, conflict management in natural resource management, dryland management and policy. Other areas include project

/programme cycle management, monitoring and evaluation, institutional development of NGOs (local/national), workshops facilitation and documentation. She has been extensively engaged in institutional reforms in NWFP Forest Department and in other policy dialogues

related to NRM at national level.

Prior to joining Intercooperation, she served an NGO called Balochistan Rural Support Programme (BRSP), previously Pak-German Self Help Project, in 1993 as Programme Specialist Agro-forestry. In BRSP she streamlined a Social Forestry Master Plan, which

received funding from USAID and Government of Balochistan. She also introduced and implemented Range Management and training programmes in Balochistan. She joined

Enterprise and Development Consulting (EDC) as Assistant Manager Natural Resources in 1996. She was assigned to work as Advisor Monitoring and Evaluation for the Dutch funded Social Forestry Project Malakand-Dir up in the North West Frontier Province. Later, she

served DHV Consultants BV on the same position. She studied effects of the project interventions (extension, community forestry, village land use planning, institutional

development) in the project areas. She also developed computerized monitoring programmes and trained Forest Department staff to apply these in their working. She is


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proficient in Urdu, English, Hindi and Pashto with some skills in Persian and some local languages spoken in Pakistan. She is/has remained on Steering Committees/Board of

Governors of a few international organizations and national NGOs including LEAD Pakistan (1999-2004).

She is a member of Cohort 4 and participated in trainings in Costa Rica, Japan and Zimbabwe. She also represented LEAD International Delegation in World Science

Conference UNESCO/ICSU) in Budapest, Hungary. Born in 1971, married in 1998 and has two children.


Nafisa Shah

Designation: Member of National Assembly (MNA)

Organization: Government of Pakistan



Profile

Nafisa Shah’s career is unique—on her journey from journalism to politics, she has several

remarkable achievements. It was her in-depth research on honour killings in Sindh that created a niche for Ms Shah in journalism. She was awarded the Best Article of the Year

award from the All-Pakistan Newspaper Society and her name appeared on the UN Global Roll of Honour in 1993. She has contributed a number of articles to reputed magazines and journals. She has presented papers on Sindhi women’s social status and education, human

rights and the environment.

She is a well-known human rights and women's rights activist. She hails from a sound political background. Nafisa was elected Nazima of Khairpur in 2001. In politics, Ms Shah

set new standards for integrity in her conflict-torn and crime-ridden district. She led the oppressed and poor women in dealing with injustice and made Khairpur a model of community-supported development.

Nafisa has an outstanding contribution in education. She gave a lot of support and guidance

in launching the LEAD’s ESRA/USAID funded education program DEMO (Democratized Education Management and Ownership) in Sindh. Thanks to her active support and involvement, today LEAD Pakistan are working with over 3000 schools in the area.

Nafisa has been nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize for remarkably administrating

the District Khairpur as Nazima (Mayor). She has a Master’s in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Oxford University, United

Kingdom.



Naila Hussain

Designation: Independent Researcher

Cohort: 1995-1997 - Cohort 4 Work Phone: 042 36675325


Profile

Naila Hussain is a Lahore-based development researcher with a focus on women and

development. In that context she has written extensively on women, development and

poverty alleviation.

Presently, she is working working with a Afghan NGO, Women and Children Legal Rights

Foundation (WCLRF). The objective is to develop a strategy in order to improve women's

access to economic rights, inheritance and land rights.

She has previously worked with Fair Trade Labeling Organization. The standards review

project encompassed several distinct activities including field-based evaluation on the experience of implementing Fairtrade contract production in Pakistan. In 2007, she was

involved with a research assignment with UNIDO on the various facets of the soccer ball industry in Sialkot.

From mid 2005 she worked on the UNDP project on the evaluation of Devolution Trust for

Community Empowerment (DTCE). Since February 2007, she has been working with Peter

Lund-Thomson, Assistant Professor of Environment in the Copenhagen Business School on

a health report and writing articles in newspapers. Ms. Naila has also worked with RSPN

(Rural support Programmes Network) from 2006, to review and to document micro

Insurance (hospitalization and accident) for members of community organizations.

Since late 2003 she has been working on a project comprising a book on Afghan case

studies titled, Afghan Women: tales of sorrow and hope. The book has been published in

September 2005, with a foreword by Nancy Dupree -a well-known writer and a long term

observer of Afghanistan since 1962.

In October 2001 she was involved as a Research Assistant at the LUMS-McGill NGO

Management Program where she wrote up two cases at LUMS: Dastkaari, which aimed at

providing employment opportunities to the women from the poorest communities. The

other case focuses on the persistent religious crises in the programme area of Sarhad Rural

Support Programme (SRSP).



Shandana Khan

Designation: Chief Executive Officer

Organization: Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN)

Profile

Ms. Khan is the Chief Executive Officer of the Rural Support Programmes Network,

Pakistan. She has worked in the rural development sector for 12 years. Her expertise lies in the area of institutional development, women's development and community development through grassroots social mobilisation models. She has worked with three Rural Support

Programmes in Pakistan which are the Aga Khan RSP, the Sarhad RSP and the National RSP.

The RSP Network is an organisation which serves as a strategic think tank to nine organisations in the country. It undertakes policy advocacy with government on issues of

poverty, gender and promotion of community participation in development policy at all levels. It facilitates networking between the RSPs and other development stakeholders.

The RSP Network consists of a team of highly qualified and experiences specialists who service the RSPs in various sectors ie monitoring & evaluation, social sectors, gender

issues, human resource development, social mobilisation.

Ms Khan has been heading the RSP Network and was instrumental in setting it up in April 2001.


Work Phone: 51 2822476 92

Work Fax: 51 2829115


Web: http://www.rspn.org


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Sofia Noreen

Designation: National Coordinator-CEDAW

Organization: Ministry of Human Rights


Work Phone: 051-9230573

Work Fax: 042 5166484

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

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Ms. Noreen earned a Masters in Zoology with a focus on environmental biology at the

University of Punjab, where she also conducted research on the effects of pesticides on

store grain pests' resistance system. She has pursued further environmental training on waste and wastewater management, environmental impact assessment, environmental education in Asian countries and the production of low-cost training materials for the rural

sector in South Asia.

Ms. Noreen works as the National Coordinator-CEDAW with Ministry of Human Rights, UNWOMEN. Her responsibilities include setting up of CEDAW unit in MoHR to mainstream

the reporting process, Assist in developing strategy of all CEDAW reporting related activities at National level in close coordination with CEDAW provincial committees and other relevant departments, Development and execution of monitoring systems in WDDs

development plan in collaboration with other stakeholders, Identify and feedback on issues, challenges or project related outcomes to MoHR and UNWOMEN for timely action, Prepare

policy briefs, concept notes, proposals on women with respect to CEDAW

Before this she was with the Aurat Publication and Information Service Foundation where her position was Assistant Director of Environment Information. Her duties included

conducting research and disseminating information on environmental issues. She has developed environmental materials such as booklets, pamphlets, games, articles and papers for community development workers, policy makers and others. Ms. Noreen also

assisted with the preparation of environmentally friendly techniques for the Aurat Foundation's weekly program on 'Agriculture Technologies for Rural Women'. In addition to

this work, she has been an invited guest and participant at various policy meetings on environment and agriculture. She has published articles on various environmental issues.


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