DR. SHAMSHAD AKHTAR (January 2ND, 2006 To January 1st, 2009)

 

Dr. Shamshad Akhtar, the fourteenth governor of the SBP, is the first woman to hold this post. Her illustrious career includes her appointment as the DG of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), South East Asia. She also served as the Deputy Director General of the Department and as Director, Governance, Finance and Trade Division, East and Central Asia Department of ADB.

She began her career in ADB in 1990, & rose to the position of Manager. Before joining ADB, Dr. Akhtar worked for 10 years as Economist in World Bank's Resident Mission Pakistan, worked briefly with planning offices of federal & Sindh Govt.

Born in Hyderabad, Dr. Akhtar got early education at Karachi & Islamabad, graduate  of  University  of   Punjab, with B.A Economics, M.Sc. in Economics from

 

Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, M.A Development Economics,University of Sussex, 1977 & Ph.D
Economics, U.K.'s Paisley College of Technology,  1980,  Post Doctoral  Fellowship, Fulbright Scholar,
visiting fellow at Department of Economics, Harvard University, 1987.

 
 
     

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