Mohammad Zubair Khan

Dr. Mohammad Zubair Khan has a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in Political Economy. After working briefly for the World Bank, he worked at the International Monetary Fund from 1981 to 1992, assigned to a wide range of countries, including industrial countries in Northern Europe and Turkey, developing countries in South Asia, the oil producing countries in the Middle East and countries in the South Pacific region.

Since returning to Pakistan, he has been consulting for the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, UNDP, JBIC and other international organizations on a range of issues, like Macroeconomic Stabilisation Policies, Monetary Policy, Trade and Exchange Rate Issues, Fiscal and External Debt Sustainability, Fiscal Federalism, Tax Administration and Poverty Related Issues. He also lectures at the Central Banks of Egypt and Sri Lanka, National Institute of Public Administration (NIPA) campus at Lahore, Pakistan Administrative Staff College, and the National Defence College, in Islamabad.

He has served as Commerce Minister of Pakistan and has represented Pakistan at the first ministerial conference of the WTO. Currently, in addition to consulting, Dr. Zubair Khan is Member National Finance Commission, Member Advisory Board Securities and Exchange Commission, Government of Pakistan, Member Board of Directors, Bank of Khyber, and Member Provincial Finance Commission, Govt. of NWFP. He is also Member of Boao Forum for Asia, Hainan, China.

Khan is currently Managing Director of Financial Techniques International. Because of his straight talk and knowledge of Economics Dr. Zubair Khan is a popular guest on TV.

Family

He is son of late Wali Mohammad Khan the elder brother of late Hayat Sherpao and Aftab Sherpao who were born to the family of Khan Bahadar Ghulam Haider Khan Sherpao a key player in the Pakistan Movement.

His family tree and cross-marriages in influential families of Pakistan are unique. He is the cousin and brother-in-law of former President of Pakistan late Sardar Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari and uncle of Sumera Malik and Ayla Malik (granddaughters of Malik Amir Mohammed Khan of Kalabagh) both members of National Assembly. He is also the uncle of Senator Jamal Leghari and Awais Leghari who was a Minister of Telecommunications and member of National Assembly.

Publications

• Kickstarting Pakistan's Economy. Lahore: Vanguard Books, 2001. ISBN 969-402-356-4.
• "Liberalization and Economic Crisis in Pakistan." In Rising to the Challenge in Asia: A Study of Financial Markets: Volume 9 - Pakistan. Asian Development Bank, 1999. ISBN 971-561-236-9.

Political offices
Preceded by Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar	Commerce Minister of Pakistan 1996-1997	Succeeded by Ishaq Dar

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Name	Khan, Mohammad Zubair
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Short description	Commerce Minister of Pakistan
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