Parvez Butt is a Pakistani mechanical engineer and public official who served as the chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission from 2001 till 2006.
19 Facts About Parvez Butt
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Parvez Butt's career is mostly spent at the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission's nuclear power division before chairing the agency, and went to serve in the Musharraf administration as a policy adviser on science as a Federal Secretary, from 2006 until 2008.
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Parvez Butt continued his public service when he joined the Gilani administration as a policy adviser on nuclear energy at the Planning Commission which he served until 2013.
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Parvez Butt was born in Gujranwala, Punjab in India on 4 October 1942 where he did his schooling and matriculation.
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Parvez Butt attended the University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore where he graduated with Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering in 1962, and went to attend the University of Toronto in Canada to pursue higher studies in engineering in 1963.
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In 1965, Butt graduated with Master of Science in nuclear engineering from the University of Toronto.
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From 1965 to 1970, Parvez Butt worked in the design engineering at the GE Canada at their office in Peterborough, Ontario, where he was involved in overall design of the nuclear power plant.
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From 1972 to 1976, Parvez Butt worked as principal engineer at the KANUPP-I to ensure the commercial power generation and grid operations of the nuclear power plant to supply energy to Karachi.
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Parvez Butt built up his reputation among his peers as a reputable machinist and design component engineer whose role was instrumental in setting up the mechanical workshop, machine tools manufacturing shop, and a welding facility that supported the plant operations as part of his responsibility to develop indigenous capability to ensure the grid operations of the nuclear power plant.
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Parvez Butt, eventually moved towards practicing mechanical engineering, when he became involved in setting up the standards for welding and machining of the fasteners and other design component parts when he was appointed director at the Atomic Energy Commission in 1984.
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In 1994, Parvez Butt left his plant manager position when he accepted the position as "Member Power" at the corporate offices of the PAEC to advise the Chairman of the PAEC on nuclear power and commercial energy.
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In 2006, Parvez Butt responded to the lawsuit filed at the Supreme Court of Pakistan by the local residents of Baghalchur, a former uranium exploration mining site and testified at the Supreme Court when he stated: "It is being done in keeping with the international standards for storing nuclear waste".
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In 2006, Parvez Butt submitted a long-term nuclear power plant project to the federal government, which called for established more civilian nuclear power plants to increase the industrial output of the country.
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On 26 March 2006, Parvez Butt seek the retirement from the chairmanship of the PAEC and accepted the position as a science adviser, to the Musharraf administration.
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On 4 July 2006, Parvez Butt sought retirement from the chairmanship of the PAEC when he rotated the chair of the PAEC to Anwar Ali, a computational physicist.
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Parvez Butt joined the federal government as a science adviser and served in the Musharraf administration until 2008.
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Parvez Butt was later taken as a policy adviser on nuclear energy by the Gilani administration which he served till 2013.
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Pervez Parvez Butt has been an active member of the Board of Government of World Association of Nuclear Operators, World Nuclear Association and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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Parvez Butt was elected the Vice Chair of the IAEA Board of Governors in 2005.