Advisory Board

His Excellency has 35 years of distinguished career in diplomacy. He was Pakistan's Ambassador to The Netherlands and Syria, and Permanent Representative to a number of UN and International Organizations. He also served on diplomatic assignments in Indonesia, Portugal, Romania and Libya. As D.G. Economic Coordination, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he has dealt with WTO, WIPO, EU, ASEAN, APEC and other International bodies. He represented Pakistan at important International Conferences including NAM Summit, OIC Summits, ECO Summit, WTO Ministerial meetings, WIPO meetings and Global World Order conference. He has conducted high level training for senior civil/military officers and foreign participants at the National Defence University (NDU) as a senior faculty member. He remained a member of the Board of Governors of Overseas Pakistanis Foundation, Overseas Employment Corporation, COMSTECH/COMSAT Institute of Informatics, Damascus and Member Advisory Committee of Export Promotion Bureau, Karachi. Lately he was special consultant to the Director General of OPCW (Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) a UN affiliated Organization in The Hague. He has been awarded the decoration "Distinction of Merit of Outstanding Order" by the Syrian President, the highest award served for diplomats in Syria.

Mr. Kazim Saeed is an economics and finance consultant who has worked in international development for over twenty years. He is currently an independent board member of Pakistan's first collateral management company for enabling crop financing. He is the lead consultant to Pakistan Agriculture Coalition, a forum of the foremost food and agriculture players in Pakistan working to modernize Pakistan's Agriculture sector. He worked as an Energy Specialist at the World Bank from 1999-2005 advising on energy strategy for China, Thailand, Bangladesh, Mongolia, East Timor and Uganda. He played a key role in developing the World Bank’s East Asia Energy Business Strategy for 2005-2010 and the ‘Infrastructure and the World Bank’ global progress report. Since 2005, he has worked as an independent economics and finance consultant to World Bank teams in Indonesia, Vietnam, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Prior to joining the World Bank, Kazim worked on strategy development for the Pakistan Software Export Board, Government of Pakistan, and development of new products for the Jang Group in Pakistan. He is the author of a first of its kind hands-on book in Urdu with a factual and statistical action plan for driving economic growth and alleviating Pakistani households out of poverty. Kazim holds two undergraduate degrees from Cornell University, USA (BS Electrical Engineering, BA History and Philosophy of Science & Technology), a graduate degree from Princeton University, USA (Master’s in Public Affairs), and cleared the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Level I.

Syed Meesam is a serial entrepreneur and a diplomat. He has founded a series of tech oriented ventures over two decades including in the logistics, e-commerce, international trade and construction sectors and has achieved 7 digit revenues in USD. Syed Meesam also represents a prominent NGO at the United Nations Headquarters. Syed Meesam has directed several development, democracy and governance initiatives, specifically addressing International Religious Freedom, Media Transparency and Human Rights, IDPs and refugees. He has a Masters degree in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston and an Undergraduate Degree in Business from the State University of New York at Stony Brooks.