1. Shamshad Akhtar is a Pakistani development economist, United Nations diplomat, banker and politician who served as the caretaker finance minister of Pakistan from 2023 to 2024 as well as from 5 June 2018 to 18 August 2018.
12 Facts About Shamshad Akhtar
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Shamshad Akhtar served as a senior adviser to the then Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon and as Vice-President of the World Bank.
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In December 2013, Akhtar was selected by the UN Secretary-General as Under-Secretary-General and the 10th Chief Secretary of the Monetary and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.
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Shamshad Akhtar moved to the University of the West of Scotland where she was awarded a PhD in Economics in 1980.
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Shamshad 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.
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Shamshad Akhtar 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.
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In 2009, Shamshad Akhtar re-joined the Asian Development Bank as a senior advisor to Haruhiko Kuroda.
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Shamshad Akhtar moved to Washington, DC to be able to work at the World Bank and served as the Vice President, World Bank Middle East and North Africa region.
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In December 2013, Shamshad Akhtar was appointed as the 10th Executive Secretary of UNESCAP in Bangkok.
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In 2020, Shamshad Akhtar was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to serve on the Advisory Committee for the 2021 Food Systems Summit, chaired by Inger Andersen.
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In 2023, Shamshad Akhtar was appointed as caretaker finance minister of Pakistan.
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Shamshad Akhtar has more than 27 million deposited in different banks.