- Hafeez A. Pasha
Dr. Hafeez Ahmed Pasha (
Urdu : حفیظ احمد پاشا) is a distinguishedeconomist ofPakistan . Dr. Pasha is aUnited Nations Assistant Secretary-General and UNDP Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific. He is the first Pakistani to hold this distinction.He has served as the
Federal Minister forFinance and Economic Affairs, DeputyChairman of thePlanning Commission , with the status of a federal minister, Education Minister andfield marshal in three governments. Earlier, he was theVice Chancellor of theUniversity of Karachi , Dean and Director of theInstitute of Business Administration , andResearch Professor and Director of theApplied Economics Research Centre (AERC). He has been the chairman or member of a large number of task forces, commissions or committees. He has published extensively in the fields of public finance, social development, and poverty. He is founder ofSocial Policy and Development Center (SPDC).Dr. Pasha has an M.A. from
Cambridge University ,England , and a Ph.D. fromStanford University , USA.External links
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