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词条 Shamshad Akhtar
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  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. External links

{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Shamshad Akhtar
|image = Shamshad Akhtar - World Economic Forum on the Middle East 2010.jpg
|office = Caretaker Federal Minister of Finance, Revenue, Statistics, Planning, Industries, Production, Commerce and Textile, Privatisation
|term_start = 5 June 2018
|term_end = 18 August 2018
|president = Mamnoon Hussain
|primeminister = Nasirul Mulk
|office1 = Executive Secretary of United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
|term_start1 = 10 December 2013
|term_end1 =
|deputy1 =
|predecessor1 = Noeleen Heyzer
|successor1 =
|office2 = Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs
|primeminister2 =
|term_start2 =
|term_end2 = 2013
|predecessor2 =
|successor2 =
|order3 =14th Governor of the
|office3 =State Bank of Pakistan
|primeminister3 = Yousaf Raza Gillani
|term_start3 = 2 December 2006
|term_end3 = 1 January 2009
|predecessor3 = Ishrat Husain
|successor3 = Syed Salim Raza
|office4 = Vice President of World Bank for Middle East and North Africa
|primeminister4 = Yousaf Raza Gillani
|term_start4 = 6 July 2009
|term_end4 = 1 January 2009
|predecessor4 =
|successor4 =
|birth_date =
|birth_place = Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan
|death_date =
|death_place =
|party =
|spouse =
|children =
|alma_mater = Harvard University
University of the West of Scotland
University of Sussex
Quaid-i-Azam University
|website =
}}Dr. Shamshad Akhtar is a Pakistani development economist, diplomat and intellectual who served as the caretaker Finance Minister of Pakistan.[1] Prior to that, she served as the 14th Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, the first woman to assume this position. She also served as a senior adviser to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon and as Vice-President of the World Bank.[2][3][4][5]

Early life

Akhtar was born in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan.[6] hails from the Naushahro Feroze District.[7] Akhtar had her earlier education at Karachi and Islamabad and graduated from the University of Punjab with a B.A. in 1974 followed by a M.A in economics from Quaid-e-Azam University in 1975.

She moved to the United Kingdom as a Commonwealth Scholarship to study development economics at the University of Sussex, receiving another M.A in 1977. She moved to the University of the West of Scotland (then the University of Paisley) where she was awarded a PhD in 1980.[8]

Career

Akhtar started her career in 1980 with the Planning Commission in Islamabad but moved few months later to work with the World Bank’s Resident Mission in Pakistan as a country economist. She left in 1986 for a year-long sabbatical to attend John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University as a postdoctoral researcher under the Fulbright Program.[9]{{failed verification|date=August 2018}}

In 1990, she moved to Manila to work as a senior economist for the Asian Development Bank and in 1996 and 1998 worked as Senior Financial Sector Specialist with the bank. In July 1996, she was promoted to Director and served as ADB representative to support ASEAN secretariat and in June 2002 she was promoted as the Director General of Asian Development Bank.

In 2005, she moved back to Pakistan to serve as the 14th Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, a position she retained until January 2009.[10]

On 23 October 2007, Akhtar was conferred Best Central Bank Governor for Asia 2007 by the Euromoney Institutional Investor.[11] On 11 November 2008, Akhtar was named amongst the top ten women leaders in Asia by The Wall Street Journal.[12]

In 2009, she re-joined the Asian Development Bank as a senior advisor to Haruhiko Kuroda. She moved to Washington, D.C. to World Bank and served as the Vice President Middle East and North Africa. During this period she spearheaded the bank's response to the Arab Spring and the Arab regional integration strategy and its implementation.[13] In September 2011, she moved to the United Nations to served as the Assistant Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs and Senior Adviser on Economic Development and Finance to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.[14] In December 2013, she was appointed as the 10th Executive Secretary of UNESCAP in Bangkok.[15][16][17]

See also

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.unescap.org/executive-secretary/biography|title=Biography of Executive Secretary Shamshad Akhtar {{!}} United Nations ESCAP|website=www.unescap.org|access-date=2017-01-13}}
2. ^{{Cite web |url=https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2013/sga1445.doc.htm |title=Secretary-General Appoints Shamshad Akhtar of Pakistan Executive Secretary of United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific|publisher=United Nations |work=Press release |date= 10 December 2013}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.un.org/press/en/2013/sga1445.doc.htm|title=Secretary-General Appoints Shamshad Akhtar of Pakistan Executive Secretary of United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific {{!}} Meetings Coverage and Press Releases|website=www.un.org|access-date=2017-01-13}}
4. ^Ban Ki-moon okayed Dr Shamshad Akhtar for UN post
5. ^{{Cite news|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/643908/former-sbp-governor-appointed-executive-secretary-unescap/|title=Former SBP governor appointed Executive Secretary UNESCAP – The Express Tribune|date=2013-12-10|newspaper=The Express Tribune|language=en-US|access-date=2017-01-14}}
6. ^http://www.profilepk.com/Shamshad-Akhtar_282.html
7. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=149227&Cat=2&dt=11/27/2008|title=}}
8. ^Office of the Vice President
9. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/168428|title=Dr Shamshad named first SBP woman governor|date=2005-12-04|newspaper=DAWN.COM|access-date=2017-01-13}}
10. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.sbp.org.pk/about/governors/profile.htm|title=State Bank of Pakistan|website=www.sbp.org.pk|access-date=2017-01-13}}
11. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/75984-dr-akhtar-declared-best-central-bank-governor-for-asia|title=Dr Akhtar declared best central bank governor for Asia|website=www.thenews.com.pk|access-date=2017-01-13}}
12. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/329353/dr-akhtar-among-top-ten-women-in-asia|title=Dr Akhtar among top ten women in Asia|date=2008-11-11|newspaper=DAWN.COM|access-date=2017-01-14}}
13. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/634900-ban-ki-moon-okayed-dr-shamshad-akhtar-for-un-post|title=Ban Ki-moon okayed Dr Shamshad Akhtar for UN post|website=www.thenews.com.pk|access-date=2017-01-14}}
14. ^{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.worldbank.org/team/shamshad-akhtar|title=Shamshad Akhtar|last=Akhtar|first=Shamshad|date=2010-10-25|website=World Bank Blogs|access-date=2017-01-13}}
15. ^Biography of Executive Secretary Shamshad Akhtar
16. ^Shamshad Akhtar-Vice President, Middle East and North Africa Region
17. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.unescap.org/executive-secretary/about|title=Executive Secretary Shamshad Akhtar {{!}} United Nations ESCAP|website=www.unescap.org|access-date=2017-01-13}}

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20051125014145/http://www.sbp.gov.pk/ Official website of State Bank of Pakistan]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20071030013114/http://www.dhartipakistan.com/2007/10/25/shamshad-akhtar-state-bank-of-pakistan-award/ Dr. Shamshad awarded “Best Central Bank Governor in Asia” prize]
  • [https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=asugL.446bYM&refer=asia Akhtar Named Pakistan's First Female Central Banker (Bloomberg)]
  • [https://archive.is/20130117102131/http://www.allvoices.com/news/1884646/s/24132775-shamshad-visits-native-village-for-first-time Shamshad visits native village for first time]
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