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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 4

Buzdar, Mr. Abdul Hafeez

Designation: Director Conservation

Organization: Snow Leopard Foundation

Cohort: 4

Email: [email protected]

Mr. Buzdar is currently working as Director Conservation with Snow Leopard

Foundation to promote innovative and adaptive community based conservation

practices by applying new partnerships, conservation tools, information, and

improving sustainable livelihoods of local community to mitigate and prevent

threats to biological diversity.

Prior to this, he worked with Barrick Gold Corporation in Saudi Arabia and Tethyan

Copper Company in Pakistan as Manager Community Relations and Corporate

Social Responsibility. In that role, he was responsible to accomplish the corporate

commitments through 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, 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. 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 socio-economic development of the rural and semi-urban communities.

He is interested in biodiversity conservation, human-wildlife co-existence, policy

advocacy, climate change, community development, corporate social responsibility,

disaster risk reduction, sustainable livelihoods, social impact assessment and

resettlement planning.

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), Bangkok, Thailand.

mailto:[email protected]

Hussain, Ms. Naila

Designation: Independent Researcher

Organization: Afghan NGO

Cohort: 4


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.


Khan, Ms. Shandana

Designation: Chief Executive Officer

Organization: Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN)

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.

Cohort: 4


Web: http://www.rspn.org


http://www.rspn.org/

Mansur, Syed Ali

Designation: Equipment Incharge, Boeing777 Aircraft Engineer

Organization: Pakistan International Airlines Corporation (PIA)

Cohort: 4


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.


Nizami, Ms. Arjumand

Designation: Programme Coordinator

Organization: Pakistan Inter-Cooperation, Pakistan Delegation Office

Cohort: 4


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

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


http://www.intercooperation.org.pk/

Noreen, Ms. Sofia

Designation: National Coordinator-CEDAW

Organization: Ministry of Human Rights

Cohort: 4

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

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


Raja, Mr. Naeem Ashraf

Designation: Director Biodiversity Programme

Organization: Ministry of Environment, Government of Pakistan

Cohort: 4


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.


Said, Mr. Amir

Designation: Research Engineer

Organization: Packages Limited

Cohort: 4


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.


Saleem, Mr. Muhammad

Designation: Programme Manager - Monitoring, Evaluation and

Research

Organization: Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP)

Cohort: 4


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.


Shah, Ms. Nafisa

Designation: Member of National Assembly (MNA)

Organization: Government of Pakistan

Cohort: 4


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.


Shaikh, Mr. Ahmed Saeed

Designation: Director - Monitoring Unit USAID - MSI Monitoring and

Evaluation Program (MEP)

Organization: Agency for International Development (USAID)

Cohort: 4


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.


Syed, Mr. Bilal Mustafa

Designation: Manager Health & Safety- Production Division

Pluto

Organization: Woodside Energy

Cohort: 4


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.


Yunus, Mr. Qasim

Designation: Safety Advisor

Organization: Saudi Basic Industries Corporation SABIC

Cohort: 4


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 Environment, Health,

Safety & Security (EHSS) Department of 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.


Cohort 5

Abro, Mr. Altaf A.

Designation: Program Manager,

Organization: EC Food Security Project, Oxfam Novib

Cohort: 5


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).


Aqil, Ms. Rushna Ravji

Designation: Service Delivery Technical Advisor

Organization: United States Agency for International

Development (USAID)

Cohort: 5


Web: http://www.usaid.gov

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.


http://www.usaid.gov/

Bilgrami, Ms. Razina

Designation: Country Director Sri Lanka

Organization: United Nations Development Programme

Cohort: 5


Ms Bilgrami is working with the United Nations Development Programme as the

Country Director in Sri Lanka. Her key responsibility, as part of the Senior

Management team, is to provide leadership to the delivery of UNDP assistance to

Sri Lanka, with the programme portfolio focusing on Poverty Reduction, Democratic

Governance, Energy and Environment, and Crisis Prevention and Recovery. Prior to

taking over this assignment in 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, Sri Lanka and Bhutan, 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 UNDP Pakistan, providing substantive inputs such as policy

advice, strategic decision-making, advocacy, programme planning and advisory

services, and results-based management. 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.

Chaudhary, Dr. Muhammad Iqbal

Designation: Professor

Organization: University of Karachi

Cohort: 5

E-mail id: [email protected]

Web: http://www.iccs.edu

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. 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. 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 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.


Hayat, Mr. Roomi S.

Designation: CEO

Organization: Institute of Rural Management

Cohort: 5


Web: http://www.irm.edu.pk/

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/

Ismail, Mr. Sajjad

Designation: Education Specialist

Organization: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Cohort: 5


Web: http://www.unicef.org

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.

http://www.unicef.org/

Ismail, Dr. Saeed

Designation: Chairman

Organization: Health and Nutrition Development Society (HANDS)

Cohort: 5

Email:

[email protected]

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.


Khan, Mr. Abdul-Rahim Basit

Designation: Chief, HSE and Community Development

Organization: MOL Oil & Gas Company B.V.

Cohort: 5


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.


Khattak, Ms. Ismat Gul

Designation: Director

Organization: I.L. Pakistan National Accreditation Council

(PNAC),

Ministry of Science & Technology

Cohort: 5


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.


Nasir, Syed Mahmood

Designation: Director Biodiversity / Deputy Secretary International

Cooperation

Organization: Ministry of Climate Change

Cohort: 5


[email protected]

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.



Panhwar, Mr. Nasir Ali

Designation: Regional Program Manager, Karachi Region

Organization: The Agribusiness Project, Agribusiness Support

Fund

Cohort: 5

Email Address: [email protected]

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.

Qureshi, Mr. Mohammad Azhar

Designation: Executive Director

Organization: Eco-Conservation Initiatives (ECI)

Cohort: 5

Email [email protected],

[email protected]

Web http://www.eci-networks.org

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 several INGOs and various Sugar Mills in Pakistan by

managing multi-stakeholders partnership involving NGOs, government and the corporate sector. 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 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. 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.


http://www.eci-networks.org/

Rafiq, Mr. Abdul Qadir

Designation: Project Manager, Environment and Energy,

Poverty Reduction and Environment Protection

Programme

Organization: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Cohort: 5


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

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 issue.


http://www.un.org.pk/

Ramay, Mr. Muhammad Irshad

Designation: Coordinator

Organization: National Cleaner Production Centre (NCPC)/MBP

Attock Refinery Limited

Cohort: 5


Web: http://ncpc.org.pk

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.


http://ncpc.org.pk/

Rasheed, Mr. Tahir

Designation: General Manager

Organization: Leadership for Environment and Development

(LEAD) Pakistan

Cohort: 5


Tahir Rasheed is currently working as General Manager at Leadership for

Environment and Development (LEAD) Pakistan. Prior to this, he was affiliated with

IUCN’s Sustainable Use Specialist Group-Central Asia (SUSG-CAsia) as CEO. Mr.

Rasheed has 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.


Zaidi, Mr. Hasan Yahya

Designation: Chief Executive

Organization: Tamarind Media

Cohort: 5


Web: http://www.tamarindmedia.com

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.


http://www.tamarindmedia.com/

Cohort 6

Abidi-Habib, Ms. Mehjabeen

Designation: Natural Scientist/Senior Research Fellow

Organization: Sustainable Development Study Centre/GCU,

Government College University Lahore

Cohort: 6


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


Ali, Ms. Zeba

Designation: Economist

Organization:

Cohort:

Environment Canada

6


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.


Bibi, Ms. Halima

Designation: Training & Women in Development Coordinator

Organization: Asian Development Bank

Cohort :6

Mrs. Halima Saeed received dual Masters degrees in International Relations and Political Science from the University of Peshawar, Pakistan. She is currently working

as 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.

Hussain, Mr. Shahzad

Designation: Senior Manager (PG)

Organization: Crescent Textile Mills Limited

Cohort: 6


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.


Khan, Mr. Muhammad Jehanzeb

Designation: Secretary

Organization: Livestock & Dairy Development Department,

GOP

Cohort: 6


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.


Khan, Dr. Azhar Mansur

Designation: Professor

Organization: Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering and

NUML

Business Management Consultants (BMC)

Cohort: 6


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.


Khan, Mr. Siddiq Ahmed

Designation: Senior Director

Organization: Community Services Upper FATA Livelihood

Development Program- Save the Children-US

Cohort: 6


Mr. Khan earned his Masters in Public Adminnistration 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.


Khan, Mr. Nasrullah


Organization: Centre for Peace and Development (CPD) -

Balochistan

Cohort: 6


Web: http:// www.cpdbalochistan.org

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


Khilji, Ms. Rehana Zubair

Designation: Community Development Coordinator

Organization: giz RAHA

Cohort: 6


Web: http://www.giz.de

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 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".


http://www.giz.de/

Khokhar, Mr. Ashfaq Ahmad

Designation: Sr. Social Safeguard Officer, Pakistan Resident

Mission

Organization: Asia Development Bank

Cohort: 6


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.


Malik, Mr. Shakoor


Organization: ZSM Management Inc

Cohort: 6


Web: http://zsm.ca

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 counselling.


http://zsm.ca/

Muhammad, Mr. Lal Jan

Designation: Team Leader

Organization: Health and Rural Development

Cohort: 6


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.


Shaikh, Ms. Rehana

Designation: Freelance Consultant

Organization: British Councel, save the children

Cohort: 6


Web: http://www.org.pk

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.


Sikander, Mr. Ejaz


Organization: National Commission for Human Development

Cohort: 6


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

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.


http://www.nchd.org.pk/

Cohort 7

Afzal, Dr. Javaid

Designation: Environment Specialist

Organization: World Bank Resident Mission

Cohort: 7


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.


Ahmed, Mr. Munir


Organization: Development Communications Network Pakistan

Cohort: 7


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

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/

Bukhari, Syed Nadeem

Designation: Programme Officer, Climate Change-NRM

Organization: Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation

Cohort: 7


Web: http://intercooperation.org.pk

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/

Haider, Mr. Sheraz Manzoor

Designation: Senior Contract Management Specialist

Organization: Asian Development Bank, AJP-ADTA

Governance

Unit

Cohort: 7


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 twice elected as the member of the Board of Governors of LEAD Pakistan.


Hasan, Dr. Amena

Designation: Chief Executive Officer

Organization: Business for Social Progress

Cohort: 7


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).

Irfan, Ms. Tayyaba Samina

Designation: Consultant

Organization: World Bank Pakistan

Cohort: 7


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.


Khan, Mr. Hammad Naqi

Designation: Global Cotton Leader

Organization: WWF-International's Market Transformation Initiative (MTI)

Cohort: 07

Email [email protected]

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.


Malik, Ms. Fauzia Bilqis


Organization: Human Resource Development Network

(HRDN)

Cohort: 7

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Web: http://www.hrdn.net

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.


http://www.hrdn.net/

http://www.hrdn.net/

Malik, Dr. Murtaza

Designation: Water, Environment and Sanitation Officer

Organization: UNICEF

Cohort: 7


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.


Narsi, Mr. Siraj

Designation: President/ Principal

Organization: Integrated Resources (Houston Dallas

Calgary)

Cohort: 7


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.

Palijo, Mr. Ayaz Latif

Designation Constitutional Lawyer

Organization Sindh High Court

Cohart: 7


Web: http://www.atsindh.com/frjp/

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 .


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/Violence_against_women

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_rights

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

Sami, Mr. Farhan

Designation: Country Team Leader Water and Sanitation

Programme-South Asia

Organization: The World Bank

Cohort: 7


Web: http://wsp.org

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.


http://wsp.org/

Cohort 8

Beg, Ms. Huma Mustafa

Designation: Chairman and Founder

Organization: Serendip Production (Pvt.) Ltd

Cohort: 8


Web: http://www.serendip.tv and

http://www.serendipitymedia.co.uk

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 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.

Ghanghro, Ms. Noor U Nisa


Designation: Freelance development consultant

Organization: Pakistan Television Corporation

Cohort: 8


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.

Ghaus, Mr. Muhammad Rafi



Organization: Extension Projects & Studies Division NEC

Consultants (Pvt) Ltd

Cohort: 8

Email: [email protected] ,

[email protected]

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.



Jabeen Dr. Musarrat

Designation: Associate Professor

Organization: University of Baluchistan

Cohort: 8


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.. 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.


Khan, Mr. Sardar Iftikhar Ahmed

Designation: Program Manager Baluchistan

Organization: Save the Children International

Cohort: 8


Web: http://www.savethechildren.org

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/

Khan, Mr. Waqar Ahmad

Designation: CEO

Organization: Star Hydro Power Limited

Cohort: 8


Web: http://www.patrind.com

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/

Memon, Mr. Naseer Ahmad

Designation: Chief Executive

Organization: Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO)

Cohort: 8

Email: [email protected] ,

[email protected]

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.



Qazi, Mr. Muhammad Usman

Designation: Consultant

Organization: Self Employed

Cohort: 8


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.


Rana, Mr. Aftab Ur Rehman

Designation: President

Organization: Sustainable Tourism Foundation Pakistan

Cohort: 8


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.


Roomi, Mr. Muhammad Azam

Designation: Principal Lecturer / Director - MBM Programme /

Director of Research - Centre for Women's Enterprise

Organization: University of Bedfordshire Business School

Cohort: 8


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/

Shah, Dr. Syed Tauqir Hussain

Designation: Secretary to Chief Minister Punjab

Organization: Government of Punjab

Cohort: 8


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

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/

Shaikh, Mr. Mazhar Iqbal

Designation: Certificate Manager

Organization: SGS Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd.

Cohort: 8


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.


Sheraifi, Mr. Liaqat Ali


Organization: Balochistan Community Irrigation and

Agriculture Project

Cohort: 8


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.

Currently, he is based in New York City where he runs his own incorporation in the

field of signage and graphic design.


Zahur, Ms. Rubina Tariq


Organization : Canada Based Pakistan Education and Project

Cohort: 8


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.


Cohort 9

Changezi, Mr. Abdul Rahim

Designation: Lecturer

Organization: Social Work Department University of

Baluchistan

Cohort: 9


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.


Javed, Mr Cheema

Designation: Senior Manager

Organization: Descon Integrated Projects Ltd.

Cohort: 9

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/

Durrani, Ms. Rahila

Designation: Minister for Prosecution

Organization: Aghaz, Jang, Zamana

Cohort : 9


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.


Hashmi, Mr. Umar Farooq

Designation: Senior Manager Business Development

Organization: GlaxoSmithKline Pakistan Ltd.

Cohort: 9

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 leverages 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.

Jan, Dr. Ali ahmad


Organization: Sustainable Solutions (Pvt) Ltd

Cohort: 9


[email protected]

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. 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.

Khan, Mr. Mohammad Mujib

Designation:

Consultant

Organization:

Freelance

Cohort: 9


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.


Mahmood, Mr. Khalid

Designation: Staff Officer to DG FIA

Organization: FIA

Cohort: 9


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.


Muhammad, Ms. Mamoona Wali

Designation: Deputy Director

Organization: Ministry of Climate Change

Cohort: 9

E-mail: [email protected]

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.

Pervaz, Dr. Muhammad

Designation: Program Leader, Technology Transfer

Organization: Technology Transfer Hydrocarbon Development

Institute of Pakistan, SAARC Energy Centre

Cohort: 9


Web: http://www.saarcenergy.org

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.


Rasul, Mr. Khalid

Designation: Programme Officer

Organization : United Nations World Food Programme

Cohort: 9


Web: http://www.wfp.org/

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/

Rizvi, Mr. Sajjad Haider


Organization: Indus Foundation for Human Development

Cohort: 9


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

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/

Shahbaz, Mr. Muhammad Shahid

Designation: Senior General Manager

Organization: Colony Textile Mills ltd

Cohort: 9


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).

Shaikh, Mr. Amjad

Designation: Health Safety and Environmental Team Leader

Organization: Petrofac International

Cohort: 9


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.


Toor, Ms. Sumaira Sagheer

Designation: Communication Arts Consultant

Organization: Agha Khan Rural Support Program

Cohort: 9


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.


Ullah, Mr. Saleem

Designation: Programme Officer

Organization: UNDP

Cohort: 9

Email: [email protected] ; [email protected]

Web: http://un.org.pk/undp

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

Cohort 10

Ahmad, Mr. Masroor

Designation: Water and Sanitation Specialist

Organization: The World Bank

Cohort: 10


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.


Bazai, Mr. Zahoor Ahmad

Designation: Director, FTDC/Assistant Professor in Botany

Organization: University of Balochistan

Cohert: 10


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.


Channa Nalin Bandara Bambaradeniya, Dr. Rajapakse

Ratnayake Mudiyanselage

Designation: Head

Organization: Ecosystems Management Programme (IUCN) IUCN –

The World Conservation Union

Cohort: 10


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.


Eawpanich, Ms. Piyathip

Designation: Program Officer

Organisation: IUCN Thailand

Cohort: 10


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.


Faruqui, Mr. Muhammad Sualeh

Designation: Secretary - Information Technology

Organization: Government of Sindh

Cohort: 10

Email : [email protected]

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.


Hussain, Mr. Nazakat

Designation: Engineer

Organization: WAPDA

Cohort: 10


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.


Iqbal, Mr. Shafqat

Designation: Principal

Organization: Bright Vision Model College

Cohort: 10


Web: http://www.bvmc.edu.pk

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/

Khaleel, Ms. Rana El-Akhal

Designation: CEO

Organization: Jordon Forum for Business and Professional Women

Cohort: 10


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


Khan, Ms. Rina Saeed

Designation: Freelance Journalist/Communications Consultant

Organization: Lead Pakistan and Pakistan Wetlands Programme

Cohort: 10


Rina Saeed Khan is an award-winning freelance journalist based in Islamabad,

Pakistan. She began her career in journalism with The Friday Times, Pakistan’s first independent English weekly newspaper, where she served as Features Editor for

many years. She then began working as a consultant in communications with the United Nations Development Programme in Pakistan and WWF-Pakistan, travelling

through out the country, from the high mountains to the coastline, writing reports and case studies.

She has received international awards like the International Committee of the Red

Cross’s Award for Journalists on Best Humanitarian Writing and the Earth Journalism Award in Copenhagen during the UN Summit on climate change in 2009 for the best reporting on climate change from Asia. She has also contributed

articles and blogs to Reuters Alertnet, Sweden’s leading newspaper Svenska Dagbladet and The Guardian UK. Currently, Rina writes a popular bi-weekly column

on the environment for DAWN, Pakistan’s largest circulation English-language national daily in addition to her consultancies for the UNDP, LEAD-Pakistan and WWF-Pakistan.

She also blogs once a week for DAWN.com, mostly on environment, energy,

biodiversity and climate change issues. She most recently completed “Water in the Wilderness”, an art book she co-authored, that delves into extensive research and

fieldwork to tell the stories of selected water bodies in the country, which will be published later this year.


Khan, Mr. Amjad Zafar

Designation: Social Protection Specialist

Organization: Social Protection Unit, The World Bank

Cohort: 10


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.


Lutfi, Mr. Shahid Ali


Organization: Environmental Management Consultants (EMC)

Cohort: 10

Email: [email protected],

[email protected]

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.

Majid, Ms. Rukhsana

Designation: Head of Department

Organization: Community Medicine Bolan Medical College

Quetta

Cohort: 10


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


Otho, Dr. Muhammad Suleman

Designation: Provincial Coordinator HASP-CIDA

Organization: Agri Team Canada

Cohort: 10


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 confection.


Piracha, Mr. Jahanghir

Designation: Human resource Manager

Organization: Engro Chemical Pakistan Ltd.

Cohort: 10


Web: http://www.engro.com

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/

Radwan, Mr. Ahmad Mohamad Hosney

Designation: Assistant Professor

Organization: Helwan University- College of Fine Arts

Cohort: 10


Radwan, Ahmed Hosney is an Egyptian Architect. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Department of Architecture, College of Fine Arts,

and 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


Sadiq, Mr. Chaudhry Ehsan

Designation: National Police and Public Safety Reforms Specialist

Organization: Access to Justice Program

Cohort: 10


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.


Sherdil, Mr. Khalid

Designation Director General PDMA, Punjab

Organization Govt. of Punjab

Cohort: 10


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. Earlier, he served as Assistant Commissioner of Murree and Lahore Cantt. He is author of a book titled "Dengue: Prevention & Control.


Sumbal, Mr. Asadullah Khan

Designation: Economist (Public Finance), CWFM/CWRD

Organization: Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Cohort: 10


Web: http://www.adb.org

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/

Cohort 11

Khan, Mr. Tariq Zaman

Designation: Principal Staff Officer to DCO Lahore/ District

Officer Environment Lahore

Organization: City District Government Lahore

Cohort: 11



Khan, Mr. Ahmad

Designation: Director Regional Programmes WWF

Organization: Regional Programmes Pakistan Wetlands Programme,

WWF Pakistan

Cohort: 11


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.


Khan, Mr. Sahibzada Irfanullah

Designation: Provincial Project Coordinator

Organization: Sustainable Land Management Project (SLMP), NWFP

Planning & Development Department

Cohort: 11


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

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 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


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

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.

Kumar, Mr. Mukesh

Designation: Manager Sales, Sindh

Organization: Small and Medium Enterprise Development

Authority (SMEDA)

Cohort: 11


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

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.


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

Liyi, Ms. Sarah Qin

Designation: Operations Director

Organization: China Contact

Cohart: 11

Nationality: Chinese

Email:

[email protected]

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.


Cohort 12

Abro, Mr. Suhail Ahmed

Designation: Program Manager

Organization: Human Rights Education Forum Pakistan

Cohort : 12


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”.


Afaqui, Mr. Naokhaiz Iqbal

Designation: Regional Manager RF planning

Organization: Warid Telecom (Pvt) Ltd

Cohort: 12


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.

Batool, Ms. Rehana

Designation: Assistant Manager Monitoring & Evaluation

Organization: The Citizens Foundation

Cohort: 12


Currently working in The Citizens Foundation (TCF) a non-profit organization (that

aims to provide quality education to the less privileged) as an Assistant Manager,

Evaluation in Department of Education since June 2006. Main responsibilities are

developing benchmarks and quality indicators for school evaluation, designing

monitoring tools, developing evaluation policy for TCF schools, visiting school for

the purpose of evaluation, analyzing data and developing reports. Before joining

TCF I have worked for a NGO, Aga Khan Education Service Pakistan as Program

Associate for Quaid project â€“Quality Advancement through Institutional

Development funded by ESRA â€“ Education Sector Reforms Assistance under

USAID, which focused the sustainability development of low cost private school of

Karachi. I have facilitated QuAID partners school in formulating School

Development Plans. Prior to these I have been teaching Science to the students of

O level (Grade VI and VII) at Beaconhouse School System and worked as Science

coordinator. I am providing voluntary services to a NGO -Science Association of

Pakistan (SAP) that focus to improve science education in Pakistan based at Aga

Khan University- Institute for Educational Development. I am providing support to

SAP as an Executive member and have been involved in planning and organizing

different program like training sessions and Science Olympiad for students, also

working as Editor for SAP Newsletter. I hold Masters degree in Biochemistry from

University of Karachi. I have attended various training sessions and educational

conferences from time to time. Most of my spare time is devoted to SAP besides I

keenly watch movies and current affair programs. My hobbies include reading

articles from newspaper and at times i enjoy doing embroidery.


Hashmi, Mr Zia Ur-Rehman

Designation CSO Contract Management Specialist

Organization United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Cohort : 12


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.


Khan, Ms. Frida

Designation: National Project Coordinator

Organization: ILO

Cohort: 12


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.


Khan, Ms. Dina

Designation: Coordinator

Organization: LEAD Pakistan

Cohort: 12


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.


Khawaja, Ms. Mariam

Designation: Staff Manager

Organization: Norwegian Refugee Council

Cohort: 12


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.


Mahmood, Mr. Azhar

Designation: Business Manager

Organization: Vinyl (Pakistan & Middle East) DuPont

Cohort 12


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.

Mangi, Mr. Ahsan Ali

Designation: Joint Secretary Economic Affair

Organization: Ministry of Economic Affairs and Statistics,

Government of Pakistan

Cohort: 12


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 includes 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.

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Rafiq, Mr. Muhammad Arshed

Designation: Communication Specialist

Organization The Urban Unit

Cohort: 12

Web-email: [email protected]

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.


Shar, Mr. Hyder Bux

Designation: Advocate High Court

Organization: Hyder Law Associates

Cohort: 12


Web: http://www.cpjp.org

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


http://www.cpjp.org/

Shaukat, Ms. Taiba

Designation: Manager Consulting

Organization: Bridgeway consulting

Cohort: 12


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.


Cohort 13

Alam, Mr. Ahmad Rafay

Designation: Partner

Organization: Saleem, Alam & Company

Cohort: 13


Ahmad Rafay Alam is partner at Saleem, Alam & Company, a law firm and consultancy specialising in energy, water and urban infrastructure. Mr. Alam serves

as the Chairman of the Lahore Waste Management Company and Director of the Urban Unit, Government of Punjab. He has served as Chairman of the Lahore

Electric Supply Company Limited. He is the Vice President of the Pakistan Environmental Law Association, General Secretary of the Public Interest Law Association of Pakistan and a member of the Board of Governors of the Citizens'

Archive of Pakistan. He has served as the Secretary of the Canal Road Mediation Committee constituted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan and serves as Secretary

of the River Ravi and Fire Safety Commissions constituted by the Lahore High Court.

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.


Amin, Mr. Sana Khan

Designation Consultant - M&E/ Cash Transfer Programs

Organization World Bank/ Ayala Consulting

Cohort 13


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,


Batool, Ms. Huma


Organization: SBK University of Baluchistan

Cohort: 13


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.


Chachar, Mr. Muhammad Usman

Designation: Additional Secretary (Staff) to Chief Secretary

Organization: Chief Minister Secretariat, Government of Sindh

Cohort: 13


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.

Khan, Ms. Jamila Sikandar

Designation: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Organization: UNDP Pakistan

Cohort : 13


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.

Naqvi, Syed Tahir Hussain

Designation: Chief Operating Officer

Organization: Karachi Educational Development Centre

Cohort : 13


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.

Nguyen, Ms. Aliya Agha

Designation: Education Specialist

Organization: UNICEF

Cohort: 13


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.

Saleem, Mr. Raja M. Ali

Designation: Ph.D Student

Organization: George Mason University

Cohort: 13


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.


Salik, Ms. Humaira

Designation: Assistant HR-Manager

Organization: National Bank of Pakistan

Cohort : 13


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.

Torwali, Mr. Zubair

Designation: Project Coordinator

Organization: Alif Bae Tae

Cohort: 13


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.

Umrani, Mr. Muhammad Uris

Designation: Director programmes -Devcon

Organization: DevCon

Cohort: 13


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.


Cohort 14

Ali, Mr. Mukhtar Ahmad

Designation Executive Director and CEO

Organization Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives

(CPDI)

Cohort 14


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.


Aslam, Mr. Malik Amin


Organization: ENVORK

Cohort: 14


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.


Bhatti, Mr. Zubair Khurshid

Designation: Director of Programs

Organization: The Asia Foundation

Cohort: 14


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.


Designation: Freelance Journalist

Organization: Dawn, The News

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 : 14



Karim, Mr. Rehmat

Designation: Head of Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Department

Organization: Strengthening Particpatory Organzation (SPO)

Cohort: 14

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

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.



Kiani, Mr. Ayyaz Gul


Organisation: DEVNET Consultants

Cohort: 14

Email:

[email protected]

Web: www.devnet.org.pk

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.

Lotia, Ms. Hina Salim

Designation: Director Programs

Organization: Project Development Department, LEAD

Pakistan

Cohort: 14


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

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.


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

Pervaiz, Mr. Arif Naseer

Designation: Multisector Specialist

Organization: USAID- Pakistan

Cohort : 14


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.


Sattar, Mr. Adnan

Designation: Freelance Development Researcher and Trainer

Organization:

Cohort: 14


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.


Shuaib, Mr. Haroon


Organization: Firms Project

Cohort: 14


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.

Cohort 15

Afzal, Dr. Saira

Designation: Assistant Professor, Department of Community

Medicine

Organization: King Edward Medical University

Cohort: 15


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.


Faraz, Dr. Adil

Designation: Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Organization: Hamdard University

Cohort: 15


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.


Hassan, Brigadier Dr. Maqsood Ul

Designation: Vice Principle

Organization: Army Medical College

Cohort: 15


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.


Khan, Dr. Samina Mohsin

Designation: Medical Officer/ Course Coordinator

Organization: Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences

Cohort: 15


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


Mubeen, Dr. Syed Muhammad

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

Department of Community Medicine

Organization: Hamdard College of Medicine & Dentistry, Hamdard

University

Cohort: 15


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.


Nighah-e-Mumtaz, Dr. Seema

Designation: Associate Professor & HoD,


Organization: Hamdard University

Cohort: 15


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.


Shah, Dr. Syed Sanwar Ali

Designation: Associate Professor,


Organization: Jinnah Medical and Dental College

Karachi

Cohort: 15


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.


Shahnawaz, Dr. Razia

Designation: CLMO/ Senior Lecturer

Organization: Institute Of Public Health, Quetta

Cohort: 15


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.


Siddiqui, Prof. Dr. M. Irfan Ullah

Designation: Vice Principle

Organization: Bahria University Medical and Dental College

Cohort: 15


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.


Siddiqui, Dr. Farah Rashid

Designation: Assistant Professor,

Community Medicine Department

Organization: Shifa College of Medicine

Cohort: 15


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.


Zehri, Dr. Mukhtar Ali

Designation: Public Health Specialist

Organization: The Program Support Unit, People’s Primary

Health Care Initiative Balochistan, Quetta.

Cohort: 15


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.


Zulfiqar, Dr. Komel

Designation: Senior Lecturer,


Organization: Islamic International Medical College

Cohort: 15


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.


Cohort 16

Asghar, Mr. Malik Naeem


Organization: COMSATS University, Islamabad

Cohort: 16

Email : [email protected]

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

Bakhsh, Mr. Khuda


Organization: University of Agriculture, Faisalabad

Cohort: 16


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 .


Ghilzai, Mr. Muhammad Hashim

Designation: Deputy Commissioner Quetta

Organization: Government of Baluchistan, Pakistan

Cohort: 16


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.


Hasnain, Syed Ali

Designation: Manager Policy-Freshwater

Organization: WWF Pakistan

Cohort: 16


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)

Inderyas, Mr. Ilyas

Designation: Founding Director

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

Baluchistan

Cohort: 16


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.


Khan, Ms. Amina

Designation: Gender Equality Officer

Organization: Citizen Engagement for Social Services Delivery Project

Cohort: 16


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.

Lehri, Mr. Asif

Designation: Manager Health Projects

Organization: BRSP, Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund

Cohort: 16


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.


Mahmood, Ms. Abida

Designation: Administrator

Organization: Qurban & Suraya Welfare trust

Cohort: 16

Email: [email protected],

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.


Malik, Dr. Seeme


Organization: COMSATS

Cohort: 16


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 has 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).


Salam, Ms. Afia

Designation: Programme Coordinator, Sindh

Organization: Imran Khan Foundation

Cohort: 16


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.

Uddin, Dr. Moin Designation: Director Corporate Strategy

Organization: TPS– An Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development

Cohort: 16


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.


Cohort 17

Abro, Mr. Asim Jaleel

Designation: Deputy Regional Program Manager

Organization: USAID's Agribusiness Project

Cohort: 17


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.


Baloch, Mr. Mir ShaiMazar

Designation: Principal Staff Officer to Vice

Chancellor/Director

Organization: University Advancement/ Financial Aid

University of Balochistan, Quetta.

Cohort: 17


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.

Bhandara, Mr. Aamer Hayat


Organization: Hayyat farms

Cohort: 17


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.

Jamali, Mr. Qaisar

Designation: Provincial Coordinator

Organization: UNESCO

Cohort: 17


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.

Kashif, Mr. Muhammad

Designation: Financial Advisor Special Projects

Organization: Grant Thornton Pakistan

Cohort: 17


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.

Lotia, Mr. Mustapha

Designation: Director Business Risk Management

Organization: NADRA

Cohort: 17


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.

Shaikh, Mr. Saleem

Designation: Climate Change/Development Correspondent

Organization: AlertNet Climate, Reuters News Agency

Cohort: 17


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.

Zafar, Ms. Rabia


Designation: Research Scholar,

Organization: Earth Sciences and Engineering Department,

Imperial College London, London, UK

Assistant Professor,

Cohort: 17


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.

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