Shamim Ahmad Khan

After joining Civil Service of Pakistan, Mr. Shamim Ahmad Khan served in senior positions in the Government, particularly in the Ministry of Finance and retired as Secretary, Ministry of Commerce. For ten years, he worked in Corporate Law Authority, regulatory body for the corporate sector as Member and later as Chairman. He restructured it as Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) and became its first Chairman. After leaving SECP in 2000, he has been serving as director of a number of listed companies. Presently, he is a non executive director of Packages, IGI Holdings Limited and Abbott Laboratories. He is also Chairman of IGI Life Insurance. Earlier he has served on the Boards of ABN AMRO/Royal Bank of Scotland, Linde Pakistan and Pakistan Reinsurance Company. He has also been associated with non government sector. For six years, he served as Member/Chairman, Certification Panel, Pakistan Center for Philanthropy and presently he is member of Board of Governors of SDPI. Mr. Khan has undertaken a number of consultancy assignments for Asian Development Bank, World Bank and DFID.