Ishrat Hussain | |
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Advisor to the Prime Minister for Institutional Reforms & Austerity [1] | |
In office 27 August 2018 –11 April 2022 | |
President | Arif Alvi Mamnoon Hussain |
Prime Minister | Imran Khan |
13th Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan | |
In office 2 December 1999 –1 December 2005 | |
Prime Minister | Zafarullah Khan Jamali Shaukat Aziz |
Preceded by | Muhammad Yaqub |
Succeeded by | Shamshad Akhtar |
Dean of IBA Karachi | |
In office 2008–2016 | |
Governor | Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan |
Succeeded by | Farrukh Iqbal |
Personal details | |
Born | [ citation needed ] Allahabad,British India | 17 June 1941
Nationality | Pakistan |
Alma mater | Williams College (B.A) Boston University (Ph.D) |
Ishrat Husain is a Pakistani banker and economist who served as the dean of the Institute of Business Administration (2008-2016) and the Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan (1999-2006). [2] He served as Advisor to Prime Minister (Imran Khan) for Institutional Reforms &Austerity,from 2018 to 2022. [3]
He received his M.A. in development economics in 1972 from the Williams College and his PhD from the Boston University in 1978.[ citation needed ] He joined the World Bank in 1979,working initially as the country economist for Liberia. In 1994,Husain became the chief economist for Asia-Pacific region and between 1997 and 1999 headed World Bank's operations in Central Asia. He ended his World Bank career in 1999,and was appointed the Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan and remained until December 2005. [4]
In 2008,he was appointed the Dean of IBA Karachi,in 2015 he was awarded the Nishan-e-Imtiaz by President Mamnoon. He resigned as the dean of IBA in 2016,however remains the Professor Emeritus of the institute. During his tenure,IBA expanded from a solely business school to an interdisciplinary university. [5] In 2016,Hussain joined the Woodrow Wilson Center as a resident policy fellow. [6]
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