International Trade Specialists

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1. Dr. Abid Qaiyum Suleri : Senior Research Fellow / Executive Director at SDPI

38 Embassy Road, G-6/3 Islamabad Pakistan Postal Code: 44000

Tel: +92-51-2278134

Fax:+92-51-2278135

Profile:Executive Director, earned his Ph.D. in Food Security from the Natural Resources

Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich, United Kingdom. Prior to joining SDPI he served as

Head of Programs, OXFAM GB Pakistan. He has conducted intensive research on Food

Insecurity, Regional Trade, and Globalization and Rural Livelihoods. His other research

interests include regional integration, institutional reforms, disaster management, poverty-

environment nexus and sustainable natural resources governance. He is currently working on

assessing the magnitude of Pakistans illegal economy. He led the team that compiled state offood insecurity in Pakistan: a report launched in 2010 and prepared in collaboration with the

UN World Food Program and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. He also led the

team that formulated National Sustainable Development Strategy (NSDS) in collaboration with

Ministry of Environment and United National Environment Program.

Dr. Suleri is called on to give policy advice and is serving on various policy forums/advisory

boards at national, regional, and international levels. He is also serving on Board of Studies of

various universities and co-supervises PhD and MSc students under NCCR program.

He represents the civil society of Pakistan in various working groups, steering committee, and

technical committees formed by the Government of Pakistan at the Planning Commission;

Ministry of Commerce; Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Livestock; Ministry of Environment

(MOE); and Pakistan Agriculture Research Council. He also represented the Pakistani civil

society at the Doha and Cancun Ministerial Conferences of WTO as well as World Food Summit

(FYL). He was a part of the official delegation of Government of Pakistan to WTO Hong Kong

Ministerial Conference. Dr. Suleri also imparts trainings and gives lectures on various aspects of

sustainable development to parliamentarians, academia, government officials, journalists, and

development practitioners.

He has been published in many national and international journals. He also contributes his policy

analysis on sustainable development issues in major national and regional papers. He is invited


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as guest analyst in electronic media on political economy of sustainable development. His book,

Social Dimensions of Globalization? A case of Pakistan was declared as Publication of Most

Importance in Year 2004 by NCCR Switzerland

2. Dr. Vaqar Ahmed, Deputy Executive Director at SDPI

Email: [email protected]

Cell Number. 0300 5543136

Profile:Dr. Vaqar Ahmed has worked as an Economist with the UNDP, Asian Development

Bank, World Intellectual Property Organization, Oxford Policy Management, Irish Rural

Economy Research Center and Ministries of Finance, Planning and Commerce in Pakistan. He is

a visiting faculty member at the National University of Ireland, IMT Institute of Advanced

Studies in Italy and Pakistan Institute of Trade and Development. His PhD students are workingon an analysis of European Union agricultural reforms, socio-economic impact of AIDS in

Nigeria, evaluation of free trade agreements, simulating growth impact of infrastructure policies

and labour market inequalities in Pakistan. He has served as an Advisor to the Planning

Commission of Pakistan, and was also the head of macroeconomics section which is responsible

for the formulation of annual, medium and perspective development plans. He was a technical

associate in the economic task forces constituted by the Prime Minister of Pakistan including

Panel of Economists (2008), Task force on Private Sector Development (2009) and Working

Group on Macroeconomic Framework for Tenth Five Year Plan 2010-15.

He is currently a Research Fellow at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) and

has published in areas such as quantitative analysis of growth, trade and taxation policies,

remittances, free trade agreements, trade in services and infrastructure development. His team is

regularly updating the quantitative models used towards forecasting medium term

macroeconomic framework for Pakistan. These models include: Financial Programming Model,

Computable General Equilibrium Model and Microsimulation Models. At SDPI he is also

coordinating the National Network for Socio-economic Modelers in Pakistan. He has recently

established a project titled: Building Capacities for Economic Analysis at Local Level, which

aims to integrate the economics departments in public sector universities of Pakistan.

3. Syed Qasim Ali Shah, Director Program Development at SDPI



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Tel: +92-51-2278134

Fax:+92-51-2278135

Profile:Qasim Ali Shah has over eleven years of extensive experience of working with the

government, multilateral organizations and international NGOs including the Ministry of

Commerce, Planning and Development Department, Government of the Punjab, United Nations

Development Programme and ActionAid International. His areas of expertise include proposal

writing for fund raising, project design, management, implementation and social assessments. He

has worked at the policy level in the area of poverty reduction strategy, gender budgeting, rural

development, agriculture, and international trade. Qasim is a strong team player and leader,

managing a team of over 20 multidisciplinary professionals at SDPI. He has a natural sciences

background and holds a year-long diploma in World Trade and Intellectual Property Rights. He

is widely travelled and comfortable in multi-cultural settings. Qasim has a few publications in his

name; some of his work has been published internationally.

4. Kanwar Muhammad Javed Iqbal, Senior Research Associate at SDPI


Tel: +92-51-2278134

Fax:+92-51-2278135

Profile:Mr. Kanwar Iqbal is associated with SDPI as Senior Research Associate - Environment.

His major responsibilities are to coordinate and manage the research projects on environmentand climate change including Adaptation and Mitigation responses, Bioenergy & its

Sustainability in South Asia, Alternate Energy, Sustainable Industrial Development in South

Asia, and International Trade & Environment including Carbon Trading. He is a representative

of SDPI as an Expert Member of Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) in

two working groups (working on Green House Gases related matters) of ISOs Project

Committee ISO/PC-248 for Bioenergy Sustainability Criteria. He has also been the member of

resolution committee of ISO/PC-248. Besides, he is serving as adviser to SAARC Chamber of

Commerce and Industry (SCCI) for its initiative on "Energy Cooperation, Climate Change and

Sustainability in South Asia". At present, he is also the Board Member of UN-REDDProgramme Policy Board, Geneva, and South Asia Focal Point for Shipbreaking Platform,

Belgium.

SDPI has recently published his Policy Paper for REDD+ readiness in Pakistan while SAARC

Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has also published his two papers recently entitled


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"Energy Policy in South Asia: The Way Forward to Prompt Regional Trade" and "Climate

Change issues in SOUTH ASIA: Prospects for Carbon Trade".

With a degree of M.Phil in Environmental Science, he possesses diverse range of more than

eleven (11) years professional experience in thedomain of environment and climate change.

Before joining SDPI, he had been working with ACTED Pakistan as Provincial ProgrammeManager, International Islamic University as Lecturer (Environmental Science), laboratories of

HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, Karachi, Pakistan, National Environmental Consulting

(Pvt.) Ltd. Lahore, Pakistan, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and UNICEF funded Water,

Environment & Sanitation (WES) Project Bahawalpur. In addition, he also taught the courses of

environmental sciences at various universities. He has also worked as a consultant for conducting

several Environmental Assessments studies (including Initial Environmental Examinations,

Environmental Assessment, Environmental Management Plans and Environmental Impact

Assessments), Environmental Management System for ISO-14001 (development and

implementation for 56 Leather Industries in Pakistan under Information and CommunicationTechnologies Project of Dutch Embassy), and EMS auditing of several industries.

He has also worked as the trainer/ consultant with many national and international organizations

including Consulting firms like XPDNC Consultants Islamabad, Rao - Sustainable Development

Consulting & Services (R-SDCS) Islamabad), NGOs like Adventure Foundation Pakistan,

Sustainable Development Foundation, Human Resource Development Society (HRDS)

Islamabad, Kissan Welfare Association Bahawalpur), INGOs like World Vision International,

WWF-Pakistan, International Donor Agencies including UNIDO Islamabad and ProVention

Consortium, USA), Oil and Gas Companies like Hycarbex American Energy Inc., Shahzad

International and Petroleum Exploration Limited etc. and Government departments includingNational Commission on Rural Development (NCRD) Islamabad, Forest and Wildlife

Department Balochistan. Another milestone of his professional history is publication of various

newspaper articles, reports and research papers on environmental policy, planning, monitoring

and management.

5. Ahmed, Qazi Masood, Professor, Director Centre for Business & Economics

Research at IBA Krachi

Ph.D., Center for Fiscal Studies, Bath, England

E-mail: qmasood at iba.edu.pk

Phone Number: 021 38104700-01


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Profile: - 15 years research and consulting experience in the fields of public finance, agriculture

and trade Served as a member of the Task Force, Tax and Tariff Reforms Commission,

Government of Pakistan.

- Author of over 40 research publications.

- Awarded Best University Teacher Award for 2002 by HEC, Government of Pakistan.

- Areas of special interest are Monetary Economics and Public Finance.

6. Meenai, Yaseen Ahmed

Lecturer at IBA, Karachi

M.Sc.(Statistics), KU, Pakistan

Phone +922199261577, (residence), +923332165105 (mobile)

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Profile: - Pursuing M. Phil./Ph.D. in Multivariate Analysis.

- Silver Medal in 2000 for the position from Department of Statistics, University of Karachi.

- Ten years teaching experience with IBA and University of Karachi.

- Acting as a Patron, Alumni Society, IBA.

- Author of over 6 research publications.

- Awarded BEST TEACHER AWARD for 2006 by HEC, Pakistan.

- Professional experience with Chamber of Agriculture Traders and Products.

- Fields of special interest are Statistics, Numerical Computing, Mathematics and Statistical

Inference.

7. Dr Dawood Mamoon

PhD Development Studies Institute of Social Studie Netherlands 2008

Associate Professor, Chairperson Department of Economics

[email protected]

Profile: Dr Dawood Mamoon is Associate Professor at UMT. Previously he has worked with

Pakistan Institute of Trade and Development as Joint Director Research. He was principle author


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of many key studies at the Institute. He authored reference studies for Pakistan China Free Trade

Area negotiations, Provision of Most favored Nation status to India, Provision of GSP

arrangement to Pakistan by EU and calculation of costs of War on Terror on Pakistani exports.

He has obtained his Phd from Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands where he has written a

book titled Trade, Poverty, Inequality and Security. His Phd research has also been published

in worlds leading economics and political economy journals i.e., Economics letters, Journal of

peace research, Economics of governance, Journal of international trade and economic

development. His papers are currently taught at University of Ontario and University of Alaska.

INTEREST AREAS

Development Economics, International trade, Conflict Studies, Education

CURRENT PROJECTS

Evaluation of Pakistan China FTA

8. Dr. Talat Afza, Professor Department of Management Science CIIT, Lahore.

Email:[email protected]

Phone: 111 001 007 Ext. 857

Dr. Talat Afza holds a Ph.D. in International Trade and Finance from Wayne State University,

Detroit USA and also has a masters degree in Economics from the same university. She holds

Master of Business Administration degree with major in Finance from B.Z. University, Multan

Pakistan.

Her areas of research interests include International Trade and Finance, Working Capital

Management, Women Entrepreneurship, Mutual Funds, Corporate Governance and Foreign

Direct Investment.

She has more than 50 publications in national and international journals to her credit and is a

member of Editorial Board of a number of national and international journals.

She is HEC approved Supervisor and supervised a number of MS and Ph.D students successfully

in the areas of Finance and Economics. She also won HEC Best Teacher Award in 2010.
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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She has extensive experience of teaching in the areas of International Finance, Investment and

Portfolio Analysis, Financial Management, Economics and Money & Banking. She has taught at

various prestigious universities including University of Michigan Dearborn (USA), Wayne State

University, Detroit (USA), B.Z. University (Multan), University of Lahore (Lahore) and Virtual

University of Pakistan.

9. Dr. Mahmood Ahmad Bodla

Director / Professor, Department of Management Science

Official Email: [email protected]

Tel # (Off): 111-001-007

10. Dr. Naveed Ahmed Shaikh

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur

Phone No.: 92-243-9280-051-4

Fax No.: 92-243-9280-060

PhD in Trade Liberalization and Poverty Alleviation in Pakistan (Case Study of Sindh Province)

11. Prof. Dr. Noor Paio Khan

Professor at The University of Agriculture Peshawar,Pakistan.

Phone:+ 92 91 9216918

Mobile:+ 92 302 5525705

Fax:+ 92 91 9216520


Specialization:Agricultural Economics / Economics (PhD Thesis: Comparative Advantage of

US Agriculture and Effects of Policies on Agricultural Trade and Farm Income: Policy Analysis

Matrix Approach (PAM).

S810 Farm Management/Production Economics


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S840 Agricultural Price/Income/Trade Policy Analysis

S850 International Agriculture Trade/ Development

12. Abid Aman Burki

Department of Economics

Professor, Program Director MSc Economics MA, University of the Punjab

MA, University of Manitoba

PhD, Kansas State University


Phone: +92 42 3560 8076

Web: http://burki.lums.edu.pk

13. Dr. Anwar Ali Shah G. Syed

Professor & Pro Vice Chancellor

Sindh University dadu Campus, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, 76080, Pakistan.

Office: +92--300-9370734

mailto: [email protected]

web: http://www.usindh.edu.pk/dranwar.shah/

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