Farooq Rehmatullah  Ali Tauqeer Sheikh  Shakil Durrani  Ms. Musharaf Hai  Sheraz Manzoor Haider 

Prof. Salima Hashmi Dr. Tariq Hassan Qazi Azmat Isa Dr. M Suleman Shaikh Dr. Tauqir Shah

Ameena Saiyid Dr. Fareeha Zafar Vaqar Zakaria Dr. Syed Zahoor Hassan

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Mr. Farooq Rehmatullah a member of LEAD Pakistan’s Board since September 2003, recently retired from Shell to become Chairman of Pakistan Refinery Limited. and now he is Director General, Civil Aviation Authority. Having started with the Burmah Shell Oil Storage & Distribution Company on March 1, 1968, his professional career has the breadth and depth to add experience to his name. From appointments in retail to human resources, to the worlds of distribution, chemicals, lubricants, and operations, Mr. Rehmatullah’s insight and experience have led him to chair several boards.

From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Farooq spent 3 years in the UK as a manager in the business & strategy division of Shell International Petroleum Company, London. He attended the Burn Hall School Abbottabad and obtained a law degree from Peshawar University.

He has a vast experience in the petroleum industry. In addition, he also has the following responsibilities:

• Chairman, Pakistan Refinery Ltd.

• Chairman & Managing Director, Shell Pakistan Limited

• Chairman, Shell Gas LPG Pakistan Limited

• Director, Shell Development & Offshore Pakistan B.V.

• Board of Trustees, Duke of Edinburgh Award Foundation

• Board of Governors, Lahore University of Management Sciences

• Member of The Resource Development Committee of The Agha Khan University Hospital

• Board Member of The Pakistan Center of Philanthropy- The Agha Khan Foundation

• Board of Trustees, Mohatta Palace Gallery Trust

• Board of Trustees, Layton Rahmatulla Benevolent Trust

• Board of Governors, The Kidney Center Post Graduate Training Institute

• Founding Member, President's Trust Fund on Human Development

• Director, Arabian Sea Country Club

• Member, International Chamber of Commerce

• Vice President, Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce & Industry

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Mr. Ali Tauqeer Sheikh is the founding CEO of Leadership for Environment And Development (LEAD) Pakistan since its inception in 1996. He specializes in institutional development, institutional reforms and in change management. He has vast experience in leadership development for sustainable development, training and facilitating multi-disciplinary expert groups on policy planning, and conflict management.   

Mr. Sheikh has studied at Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad, Australian National University, Canberra, and University of Miami, Florida, from where he obtained Master's degrees in International Relations and Strategic Studies. Mr. Sheikh has worked as Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad and served as Editor of the quarterly journal - Strategic Studies. Mr. Sheikh has been a Fellow at the Institute of Soviet and East European Studies (ISEES) Miami; the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) in London and the Rockefeller Foundation in New York.  

Mr. Sheikh has written extensively on issues of environment management in several professional journals, and has contributed to leading newspapers in the US, UK and Pakistan. He has contributed chapters to several books. Mr. Sheikh has delivered lectures at a number of universities and institutions including Oxford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University), the Carnegie Endowment, the Kennan Institute of Advanced Russian Studies and the University of Michigan. He has lectured regularly at Quaid-e-Azam University and the Foreign Service Training Institute, Islamabad. He has been a consultant/advisor to UNDP, UNESCO, UNEP, The Asia Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, the Asian Development Bank, and the UN Environment and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). He has been regularly interviewed by the national and foreign media on a range of environment and sustainable development issues. 

Mr. Sheikh serves on the Boards of several organizations and is member of various national and international committees and commissions dealing with environment and sustainable development including the apex environmental body in the country, Pakistan Environment Protection Council (PEPC) chaired by the Prime Minister of Pakistan.

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Mr. Shakil Durrani joined LEAD Pakistan’s Board in June 2006. His current posting is Chief Secretary, Govt. of Sindh. He started his carrier in 1970 and has held different positions with the Government of Pakistan. 

Prior to his appointment as Chairman of Pakistan Railways Mr. Durrani was Chief Secretary to the Government of Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK), Chief Secretary to the Government of North West Frontier Province NWFP-Pakistan, and Secretary to the Government of Pakistan, Population Welfare Division.

Academically, Mr. Durrani achieved top rank on the Central Superior Services examination in 1971, holds a Masters in Political Science from Punjab University, and a MSc. in Economics (National Development and Project Planning) from Bradford University, UK.  

In addition to these degrees he has attended several trainings in past 25 years such as the Top Management Programme, National Management Programme, objective oriented Project Planning, and Crisis Management from Philippines, Lahore, Thailand, and University of Louisiana, WD-USA respectively. He also received training on Environmental Economics & Policy Planning, from the Harvard Institute of International Development Cambridge-USA. 

From 1980 to 2001 Mr. Durrani’s extensive research and publications included the Integrated Rural Development Programme and Recommendations for Restructuring the Tribal Areas Admn in NWFP, a proposal on Social Action, the establishment of community-managed schools in the five districts in the Northern Areas, Community Participation in Wildlife Conservation in Hunza and Nagam in the Northern Areas, Drug Abuse Control Master Plan for Pakistan, Issues in Development Planning & Implementation, and Restructuring the Urban Municipal Corporation in Peshawar. 

Membership of Committees/ Commissions:

• Committee to make recommendations for restructuring institutions in Federally Administered Tribal Areas and for recognizing the Wildlife and forest Department in NWFP, Member.

• SAARC technical committee on narcotics and drug abuse control 1994 to 1996 as Pakistan’s representative, Chairman.

• Committee to universalize and improve Primary Elementary Education especially for girls in NWFP, Chairman.

• Committee to streamline the functioning of the Peshawar Municipal Corporation & Peshawar development authority, Chairman.

• Restructuring the local government department in urban areas (NWFP-Pakistan)

• Reorganizing the agriculture development in NWFP-Pakistan

• Founding Member of:

• Kalash Environmental Protection Society

• Pakistan Environmental Protection Foundation, Peshawar

• IUCN Species Survival Group for Asia (Member)

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Ms. Musharaf Hai joined LEAD Pakistan’s Board of Governors in January 2003. She had studied in London School of Economics and Boston University, U.S.A. Ms. Musharraf Hai recently joined Citigroup, Pakistan as Country Business Manager and Head of Consumer Banking Pakistan. Prior to this, she was leading Unilever Pakistan as its Chairman and CEO. Ms. Hai joined Unilever Pakistan in 1983 in the Marketing Department.

From 1993 to 1996 she was assigned to Unilever Headquarters in London, working for Unilever East Asia-Pacific and Africa/Middle East operations.

On her return to Pakistan, Musharaf Hai was made responsible for Unilever Pakistan’s Ice Cream Division and was then appointed Director for Home & Personal Care Division. Thereafter she moved to the position of Sales Director of the Company and was working in that capacity till 1st of July 2001, when she was appointed as the Chairman and CEO Unilever Pakistan. Ms. Musharraf Hai has been awarded ‘Kamyab Pakistan’ Award. The second one in Pakistan after Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and the first and only woman to get this award

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Mr. Sheraz Manzoor Haider—a LEAD Fellow—joined LEAD Pakistan’s Board in June 2004. He is the Assistant Auditor General in the Department of the Auditor General of Pakistan currently on a stint with the Asian Development Bank (ADB).  His job responsibilities as Assistant Auditor General include monitoring and reporting line departments' adherence to financial, social, and environmental standards. In the course of his work, he has pioneered the design and implementation of environmental auditing within the framework of government auditing. Aside from his professional interests, Mr Haider takes a deep interest in social issues and the performing arts.

Mr Haider is a scriptwriter, producer, and anchor for Pakistan Television Corporation and Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation. As producer and scriptwriter, he has made a number of documentaries for radio and television on themes as diverse as universal human rights, women in development, consumer issues, and the environment.  One of his video documentaries was screened at an international competition hosted by the Japanese television in 1999.  He has been a film, theatre, and music critic for newspapers and magazines such as The Muslim, The Frontier Post, Dawn, and Perspective.  He is also an experimental theatre playwright and has scripted stage plays for various national and international theatre festivals. In 2000, he was Mentor for the Pakistan delegation to the Global Environmental Youth Convention in Lund, Sweden. He is presently anchoring a television show on classical music. Mr Haider completed postgraduate studies in Pakistan Studies at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.

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Prof. Salima Hashmi is the Dean at the School of Visual Arts at Beaconhouse National University, Lahore. She taught at the National College of Arts, Lahore, for 31 years. She was also the Principal of the College for 4 years, and held the post of Professor of Fine Arts. She is a painter of repute whose works have been exhibited in Pakistan and in international exhibitions. She has written extensively on the arts, and has curated exhibitions of contemporary art and traditional textile, within Pakistan as well as abroad. Salima Hashmi was the co-founder of the Rohtas Gallery in Islamabad, established in 1981, and established Rohtas-2 in Lahore in 2001. Her book ‘Unveiling the Visible-Lives and Works of Women Artists of Pakistan’ was published in 2002. Her publication ‘Memories, myths, Mutations – Contemporary Art of India and Pakistan’ is co-authored with Yashodhara Dalmia for Oxford University Press, India (November 2006).

She is the daughter of the celebrated Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz.

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Dr. Tariq Hassan joined LEAD Pakistan’s Board in June 2004. The Government of Pakistan appointed him as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SEC), the apex regulatory body for the capital market, and corporate sector, including non- bank financial institutions, on 18 August 2003. 

Dr Hassan has gained extensive experience of corporate and capital market reforms during his 28 years career spanning private corporate law practice and development law work in international financial institutions and with the Government of Pakistan. He has worked in Pakistan, USA, Italy and UK in both private and public sector as an advocate, consultant, adviser and educationist.

Prior to his appointment as Chairman, SEC, Dr Hassan was Advisor to Federal Minister for Finance on matters pertaining to law and economics/finance for your years. He advised and assisted in the administration of all legal, regulatory and contractual matters concerning the Ministry of Finance, including its constituent divisions, departments, agencies and affiliates such as the SEC, State Bank of Pakistan, Monopoly Control Authority, Privatization Commission, Commission for Islamization of Economy and Central Board of Revenue. He has been advising the Governor State Bank on banking law reforms.

Dr Hassan started his career in Lahore as a corporate lawyer in 1973. After two years, he left for Harvard Law School, USA to earn his Master’s and Doctoral degrees. He then joined a Wall Street law firm in New York specializing in bank corporate and bank finance matters. He later gained expertise in development finance working for an international financial institution

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Qazi Azmat Isa joined LEAD Pakistan as member Board of Governors in April. Qazi Isa brings with him rich and diverse knowledge and cross-cultural experience of working with the government, NGOs and donors at bilateral and multilateral level and the communities. This background has provided him with a deep insight of the issues in development sector and has enabled him to forge genuine partnerships between all the key players in the development process. Qazi Isa has a passionate commitment to improve the lives of poor and marginalized people. 

Presently Qazi Azmat Isa is leading the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) the single largest funded project in Pakistan, as Senior Community Development Specialist. He has been working with the World Bank since 1998. 

Qazi Isa has also led the Balochistan Rural Support Program (BRSP), Quetta as its Chief Executive. In addition to that he has also worked as Project Advisor for the World Bank and National Country Officer UNDP – Water and Sanitation Program.

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Dr. Tauqir Shah is presently Advisor on Bonded Labour in International Labour Organisation, Islamabad. He belongs to the District Management Group of Civil Service of Pakistan. After schooling at Burn Hall Abbottabad, he graduated in Medicine from Khyber Medical College Peshawar.

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Ms. Ameena Saiyid joined LEAD Pakistan’s Board in June 2006. Being the only board member to receive special honors from the British Queen in 2005 for her services towards the promotion of Anglo-Pakistan relations, democracy, women’s rights, education, and intellectual property rights, Ms. Siyid earned the achievement of being the first woman in Pakistan to head a multinational in 1988.

Serving as the Chief Executive Officer, Ms. Saiyid joined the Oxford University Press-Pakistan (UOP) in 1979 and has never looked back. From her contributions in developing the nation’s publishing industry, authorship, readership, educational textbooks, to creating and maintaining an industry standard in Pakistan’s publishing field recognized internationally, Ms. Saiyid brings a wealth of experience to LEAD Pakistan’s distinguished board. Under her leadership what was once a thirty man operation has grown into a thriving publisher internationally recognized for the development of Pakistan’s publishing industry, setting the national standard for educational textbooks, with retail operations in seven cities nation-wide. Her determination and dedication put Oxford University Press-Pakistan at the top of the nation’s publishing industry, but her work will continue to make an impact in the country’s educational field for years to come.

She received her primary education in the USA where her father was a diplomat, followed by the Karachi Grammar School and the Karachi University. She received training in Advanced Management from Templeton College, Oxford University and the Ashridge School of Management.

Voluntary Offices held:

  -   Member, Board of governors, Khatoon-e-Pakistan Government Girls High School, Karachi.

  -   Secretary General, Jinnah Society, Karachi.

  -   Vice Chairperson Pakistan-India Citizens Friend Forum.

  -   Chairman, Anti-copyright Infringement Forum (ACIF).

  -   Trustee, Board of Governors, DUKE OF Edinburgh Award Scheme.

  -   Member, Welfare Committee, INFAQ Foundation, for Writers, Journalists and performing Artists.

  -   Trustee, Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA) PUBLIC Trust centre for education & consciousness.

  -   Trustee, Iqbal International Institute for Research, Education and Dialogue (IRED).

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Dr. Fareeha Zafar joined LEAD Pakistan’s Board in June 2003. She has vast experience in the field of education and has held numerous positions in multiple areas of educational development. In addition to her current position as Director, SAHE, she is also Coordinator for “Improving the Quality of Primary Education” supported by NOVIB, The Hague. She has held the positions of Project Coordinator for “Audit of Education NGOs” supported by DFID; Project Coordinator for “Education and Training in Social Issues” sponsored by CIDA; Coordinator for the SAHE Training Centre Project supported by NOVIB, The Hague; Project Coordinator for the “Promotion of Basic and Non-formal Primary Education Project,” sponsored by The Asia Foundation Pakistan, NMGO Initiative II; Project Coordinator for the SAHE Institute of Development Studies and Practice Initiative sponsored by The Asia Foundation Pakistan NGO Initiative; Project Coordinator for the Promotion of Basic and Non-formal Education Project sponsored by The Asia Foundation Pakistan, NGO Initiative; Project Director for the Training in Human Rights, Community Participation and Teaching Methodologies Project sponsored by CIDA.

Dr Zafar has also held directorship positions in numerous other projects in the areas of capacity building for teachers training, gender sensitizing in primary and middle school teaching projects and multi-grade teaching workshops for primary school teachers. She has held numerous consultancy positions in the areas of education and gender with organizations such as World Bank, Asian Development Bank, CIDA, Sungi Development Foundation, Royal Norwegian Embassy, Royal Netherlands Embassy, IUCN, British Council, Ministry of Women Development, Center for the Study of Education in Developing Countries in The Hague, The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, UNICEF, the Punjab Social Services Board, and UNDP.

Dr Zafar has published widely in the areas of education and gender and delivered numerous presentations on development issues particularly in the area of education. She has held memberships in more than a dozen organizations both in Pakistan and overseas and was a founding member of both the Society for the Advancement of Education in 1982 and the Women’s Action Form in 1981. She received her PhD in Geography from the University of London after completing her MA in Geography from University of the Punjab, Lahore. She received her BA in Geography from Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore. She was a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Geology and Geography, Vassar College, New York, a Fulbright Post-doctoral Scholar at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California, Berkley and a British Council post-graduate Scholar at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

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Mr. Vaqar Zakaria comes to LEAD Pakistan’s Board with over 30 years of experience in policy development and planning of energy production and distribution systems, energy pricing, demand forecasting, policy and strategy evaluation, and environmental assessment of energy projects. Playing a key role in setting up Hagler Bailly Pakistan in 1990, Mr. Zakaria’s extensive involvement in power, oil, and gas development projects, assisting the government in the development of energy policies, and formulating short- and long-term energy plans have helped shape and meet the nation’s energy development and needs. As a member of the Task Forces constituted for preparation of the Seventh and the Ninth Five Year Plans, the Long Term Perspective Plan for the Energy Sector, and the Committee on Oil and Gas Sector to evaluate the impact of the 1994 Petroleum Policy, Mr. Zakaria’s has advised the country on pressing issues at hand.

To add to his list of accomplishments Mr. Zakaria, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), routinely advises the Government of Pakistan, World Bank, and ADB on environmental policies, legislation, guidelines, compliance, and response to international environmental initiatives, such as the abatement of greenhouse gas emissions.  His pioneering work in the country in setting up the Deosai National Park, in testing new concepts for Protected Area Management¾including institutionalizing community participation¾and liaising with organizations such as the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Kruger National Park, and Agricultural University of Norway.  He is currently managing projects to set up a system of protected areas and conservancies in the Neelum Valley, and to assist CDA in planning and development of the Margalla Hills National Park adjacent to Islamabad.

Currently Mr. Zakaria devotes most of his time consulting in power and fuel production and distribution, energy resource management, database development, and legislative, regulatory, and financial policy formulation, and continues to oversee all organizational matters at Hagler Bailly Pakistan, including business development, personnel and financial management.

Professional Affiliations

Member, National Council for Conservation of Wildlife

Director, Himalayan Wildlife Foundation

President, Khuldunia High School

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Dr. Syed Zahoor Hassan, LUMS’ Vice Chancellor [VC] is Ex-Officio member of LEAD Pakistan’s Board since its inception. Before joining LUMS faculty in 1987, Syed Zahoor Hassan has worked for several computer system companies in the USA on various software and hardware system design projects, and also taught at Stanford University, USA.  He has a wide range of publications in the areas of information systems, software engineering, management of technology and design automation.  His research interests include information systems development methodologies, global software development, information technology utilisation effectiveness, and management of technology.  His publication, ‘A Framework for IT Industry Development: A Case Study of Pakistan’ appeared in Journal of Global Information Technology Management, (1998). He has undertaken consulting assignments for the World Bank and UNDP. 

Currently he is a member of the Board of Directors of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), National Transmission and Despatch Company Limited (NTDC), and member of the Board of Trustees of National Textile University, Faisalabad.

Dr Hassan is a member of the International Management Development Association (IMDA), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Computer Society and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Global Information Management, Journal of Global Information Technology Management, Annals of Cases in Information Technology and the Journal of Asian Academy of Management.

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Secretary Environment is Ex-Officio member of LEAD Pakistan’s Board since its inception

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