1. Dr.

Abid Qaiyum Suleri : Senior Research Fellow / Executive Director at SDPI 38 Embassy Road, G-6/3 Islamabad Pakistan Postal Code: 44000 Tel: +92-51-2278134 Fax:+92-51-2278135 Profile: Executive Director, earned his Ph.D. in Food Security from the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich, United Kingdom. Prior to joining SDPI he served as Head of Programs, OXFAM GB Pakistan. He has conducted intensive research on Food Insecurity, Regional Trade, and Globalization and Rural Livelihoods. His other research interests include regional integration, institutional reforms, disaster management, povertyenvironment nexus and sustainable natural resources governance. He is currently working on assessing the magnitude of Pakistans illegal economy. He led the team that compiled state of food insecurity in Pakistan: a report launched in 2010 and prepared in collaboration with the UN World Food Program and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. He also led the team that formulated National Sustainable Development Strategy (NSDS) in collaboration with Ministry of Environment and United National Environment Program.

Dr. Suleri is called on to give policy advice and is serving on various policy forums/advisory boards at national, regional, and international levels. He is also serving on Board of Studies of various universities and co-supervises PhD and MSc students under NCCR program.

He represents the civil society of Pakistan in various working groups, steering committee, and technical committees formed by the Government of Pakistan at the Planning Commission; Ministry of Commerce; Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Livestock; Ministry of Environment (MOE); and Pakistan Agriculture Research Council. He also represented the Pakistani civil society at the Doha and Cancun Ministerial Conferences of WTO as well as World Food Summit (FYL). He was a part of the official delegation of Government of Pakistan to WTO Hong Kong Ministerial Conference. Dr. Suleri also imparts trainings and gives lectures on various aspects of sustainable development to parliamentarians, academia, government officials, journalists, and development practitioners.

He has been published in many national and international journals. He also contributes his policy analysis on sustainable development issues in major national and regional papers. He is invited

as guest analyst in electronic media on political economy of sustainable development. His book, Social Dimensions of Globalization? A case of Pakistan was declared as Publication of Most Importance in Year 2004 by NCCR Switzerland

2.

Dr. Vaqar Ahmed, Deputy Executive Director at SDPI

Email: vahmed@gmail.com Cell Number. 0300 5543136 Profile: Dr. Vaqar Ahmed has worked as an Economist with the UNDP, Asian Development Bank, World Intellectual Property Organization, Oxford Policy Management, Irish Rural Economy Research Center and Ministries of Finance, Planning and Commerce in Pakistan. He is a visiting faculty member at the National University of Ireland, IMT Institute of Advanced Studies in Italy and Pakistan Institute of Trade and Development. His PhD students are working on an analysis of European Union agricultural reforms, socio-economic impact of AIDS in Nigeria, evaluation of free trade agreements, simulating growth impact of infrastructure policies and labour market inequalities in Pakistan. He has served as an Advisor to the Planning Commission of Pakistan, and was also the head of macroeconomics section which is responsible for the formulation of annual, medium and perspective development plans. He was a technical associate in the economic task forces constituted by the Prime Minister of Pakistan including Panel of Economists (2008), Task force on Private Sector Development (2009) and Working Group on Macroeconomic Framework for Tenth Five Year Plan 2010-15.

He is currently a Research Fellow at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) and has published in areas such as quantitative analysis of growth, trade and taxation policies, remittances, free trade agreements, trade in services and infrastructure development. His team is regularly updating the quantitative models used towards forecasting medium term macroeconomic framework for Pakistan. These models include: Financial Programming Model, Computable General Equilibrium Model and Microsimulation Models. At SDPI he is also coordinating the National Network for Socio-economic Modelers in Pakistan. He has recently established a project titled: Building Capacities for Economic Analysis at Local Level, which aims to integrate the economics departments in public sector universities of Pakistan.

3.

Syed Qasim Ali Shah, Director Program Development at SDPI

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

Tel: +92-51-2278134 Fax:+92-51-2278135 Profile: Qasim Ali Shah has over eleven years of extensive experience of working with the government, multilateral organizations and international NGOs including the Ministry of Commerce, Planning and Development Department, Government of the Punjab, United Nations Development Programme and ActionAid International. His areas of expertise include proposal writing for fund raising, project design, management, implementation and social assessments. He has worked at the policy level in the area of poverty reduction strategy, gender budgeting, rural development, agriculture, and international trade. Qasim is a strong team player and leader, managing a team of over 20 multidisciplinary professionals at SDPI. He has a natural sciences background and holds a year-long diploma in World Trade and Intellectual Property Rights. He is widely travelled and comfortable in multi-cultural settings. Qasim has a few publications in his name; some of his work has been published internationally.

4.

Kanwar Muhammad Javed Iqbal, Senior Research Associate at SDPI

38 Embassy Road, G-6/3 Islamabad Pakistan Postal Code: 44000 Tel: +92-51-2278134 Fax:+92-51-2278135 Profile: Mr. Kanwar Iqbal is associated with SDPI as Senior Research Associate - Environment. His major responsibilities are to coordinate and manage the research projects on environment and climate change including Adaptation and Mitigation responses, Bioenergy & its Sustainability in South Asia, Alternate Energy, Sustainable Industrial Development in South Asia, and International Trade & Environment including Carbon Trading. He is a representative of SDPI as an Expert Member of Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) in two working groups (working on Green House Gases related matters) of ISOs Project Committee ISO/PC-248 for Bioenergy Sustainability Criteria. He has also been the member of resolution committee of ISO/PC-248. Besides, he is serving as adviser to SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) for its initiative on "Energy Cooperation, Climate Change and Sustainability in South Asia". At present, he is also the Board Member of UN-REDD Programme Policy Board, Geneva, and South Asia Focal Point for Shipbreaking Platform, Belgium. SDPI has recently published his Policy Paper for REDD+ readiness in Pakistan while SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has also published his two papers recently entitled

"Energy Policy in South Asia: The Way Forward to Prompt Regional Trade" and "Climate Change issues in SOUTH ASIA: Prospects for Carbon Trade". With a degree of M.Phil in Environmental Science, he possesses diverse range of more than eleven (11) years professional experience in the domain of environment and climate change. Before joining SDPI, he had been working with ACTED Pakistan as Provincial Programme Manager, International Islamic University as Lecturer (Environmental Science), laboratories of HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, Karachi, Pakistan, National Environmental Consulting (Pvt.) Ltd. Lahore, Pakistan, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and UNICEF funded Water, Environment & Sanitation (WES) Project Bahawalpur. In addition, he also taught the courses of environmental sciences at various universities. He has also worked as a consultant for conducting several Environmental Assessments studies (including Initial Environmental Examinations, Environmental Assessment, Environmental Management Plans and Environmental Impact Assessments), Environmental Management System for ISO-14001 (development and implementation for 56 Leather Industries in Pakistan under Information and Communication Technologies Project of Dutch Embassy), and EMS auditing of several industries. He has also worked as the trainer/ consultant with many national and international organizations including Consulting firms like XPDNC Consultants Islamabad, Rao - Sustainable Development Consulting & Services (R-SDCS) Islamabad), NGOs like Adventure Foundation Pakistan, Sustainable Development Foundation, Human Resource Development Society (HRDS) Islamabad, Kissan Welfare Association Bahawalpur), INGOs like World Vision International, WWF-Pakistan, International Donor Agencies including UNIDO Islamabad and ProVention Consortium, USA), Oil and Gas Companies like Hycarbex American Energy Inc., Shahzad International and Petroleum Exploration Limited etc. and Government departments including National Commission on Rural Development (NCRD) Islamabad, Forest and Wildlife Department Balochistan. Another milestone of his professional history is publication of various newspaper articles, reports and research papers on environmental policy, planning, monitoring and management.

5. Ahmed, Qazi Masood, Professor, Director Centre for Business & Economics Research at IBA Krachi Ph.D., Center for Fiscal Studies, Bath, England E-mail: qmasood at iba.edu.pk Phone Number: 021 38104700-01

Profile: - 15 years research and consulting experience in the fields of public finance, agriculture and trade Served as a member of the Task Force, Tax and Tariff Reforms Commission, Government of Pakistan. - Author of over 40 research publications. - Awarded Best University Teacher Award for 2002 by HEC, Government of Pakistan. - Areas of special interest are Monetary Economics and Public Finance.

6. Meenai, Yaseen Ahmed Lecturer at IBA, Karachi M.Sc.(Statistics), KU, Pakistan Phone +922199261577, (residence), +923332165105 (mobile) Email: ymeenai@iba.edu.pk, ymeenai@hotmail.com Profile: - Pursuing M. Phil./Ph.D. in Multivariate Analysis. - Silver Medal in 2000 for the position from Department of Statistics, University of Karachi. - Ten years teaching experience with IBA and University of Karachi. - Acting as a Patron, Alumni Society, IBA. - Author of over 6 research publications. - Awarded BEST TEACHER AWARD for 2006 by HEC, Pakistan. - Professional experience with Chamber of Agriculture Traders and Products. - Fields of special interest are Statistics, Numerical Computing, Mathematics and Statistical Inference.

7. Dr Dawood Mamoon PhD Development Studies Institute of Social Studie Netherlands 2008 Associate Professor, Chairperson Department of Economics dawood.mamoon@umt.edu.pk Profile: Dr Dawood Mamoon is Associate Professor at UMT. Previously he has worked with Pakistan Institute of Trade and Development as Joint Director Research. He was principle author

of many key studies at the Institute. He authored reference studies for Pakistan China Free Trade Area negotiations, Provision of Most favored Nation status to India, Provision of GSP arrangement to Pakistan by EU and calculation of costs of War on Terror on Pakistani exports. He has obtained his Phd from Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands where he has written a book titled Trade, Poverty, Inequality and Security. His Phd research has also been published in worlds leading economics and political economy journals i.e., Economics letters, Journal of peace research, Economics of governance, Journal of international trade and economic development. His papers are currently taught at University of Ontario and University of Alaska. INTEREST AREAS Development Economics, International trade, Conflict Studies, Education

CURRENT PROJECTS Evaluation of Pakistan China FTA

8. Dr. Talat Afza, Professor Department of Management Science CIIT, Lahore. Email: talatafza@ciitlahore.edu.pk Phone: 111 001 007 Ext. 857 Dr. Talat Afza holds a Ph.D. in International Trade and Finance from Wayne State University, Detroit USA and also has a masters degree in Economics from the same university. She holds Master of Business Administration degree with major in Finance from B.Z. University, Multan Pakistan.

Her areas of research interests include International Trade and Finance, Working Capital Management, Women Entrepreneurship, Mutual Funds, Corporate Governance and Foreign Direct Investment.

She has more than 50 publications in national and international journals to her credit and is a member of Editorial Board of a number of national and international journals. She is HEC approved Supervisor and supervised a number of MS and Ph.D students successfully in the areas of Finance and Economics. She also won HEC Best Teacher Award in 2010.

She has extensive experience of teaching in the areas of International Finance, Investment and Portfolio Analysis, Financial Management, Economics and Money & Banking. She has taught at various prestigious universities including University of Michigan Dearborn (USA), Wayne State University, Detroit (USA), B.Z. University (Multan), University of Lahore (Lahore) and Virtual University of Pakistan.

9. Dr. Mahmood Ahmad Bodla Director / Professor, Department of Management Science Official Email: Tel # (Off): director@ciitlahore.edu.pk

111-001-007

10. Dr. Naveed Ahmed Shaikh Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur Phone No.: Fax No.: 92-243-9280-051-4 92-243-9280-060

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

11.

Prof. Dr. Noor Paio Khan

Professor at The University of Agriculture Peshawar,Pakistan. Phone:+ 92 91 9216918 Mobile:+ 92 302 5525705 Fax:+ 92 91 9216520 Email: profnoorkhan@yahoo.com

Specialization: Agricultural Economics / Economics (PhD Thesis: Comparative Advantage of US Agriculture and Effects of Policies on Agricultural Trade and Farm Income: Policy Analysis Matrix Approach (PAM). S810 Farm Management/Production Economics

S840 Agricultural Price/Income/Trade Policy Analysis S850 International Agriculture Trade/ Development

12. Abid Aman Burki Department of Economics Professor, Program Director MSc Economics MA, University of the Punjab MA, University of Manitoba PhD, Kansas State University Email: burki@lums.edu.pk Phone: +92 42 3560 8076 Web: http://burki.lums.edu.pk

13. Dr. Anwar Ali Shah G. Syed Professor & Pro Vice Chancellor Sindh University dadu Campus, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, 76080, Pakistan. Office: +92--300-9370734 mailto: dranwar.shah@usindh.edu.pk web: http://www.usindh.edu.pk/dranwar.shah/