Executive Director
Dr Abid Qaiyum Suleri is the executive director of Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI). He is a leading expert on sustainable development, political economy of public policy, food security, and climate change. He serves in various international and national policy-making forums and has represented Pakistan in several official and civil society delegations at the global level.
Dr Suleri is currently a member of the International Advisory Committee of COP29 (an advisory body to the COP29 Presidency), the Advisory Council of Asian Development Bank Institute, the Pakistan Climate Change Council, the Board of Directors of the National Disaster Risk Management Fund (NDRMF), the Board of Directors of Benazir Income Support Program (BISP), and the Board of Governors of National School of Public Policy.
Previously, he was a member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council/National Economic Advisory Council for three terms (2013-2022), the National Advisory Council of the Planning Commission of Pakistan for two terms (2013-2022), and Coordinator of the Prime Minister’s Agriculture Transformation Plan (2021-2022). He also served on the Government of Punjab’s Vice Chancellors’ Search Committee for Agricultural Universities, a member of the Finance Minister’s Task Force on the Effectiveness of Social Safety Nets (2016-17), the Board of Management (Board of Directors) of Pakistan State Oil (2009-2011), and four judicial commissions on environmental issues formed by the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Islamabad High Court, and Lahore High Court.
Dr Suleri is a member of the Permanent Organizing Committee of the South Asia Economic Summit. He was also a member of the Advisory Board of the CAREC (Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation) Think-Tank Network and a co-chair of the Board of Climate Action Network, South Asia, for two terms. He was the lead expert for the World Economic Forum’s “Transformation Mapping” initiative from Pakistan.
Dr Suleri has participated in various international events, such as the UN Sustainable Development Summit, the UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COPs), and WTO Ministerial Conferences. He is a regular guest speaker and delivers lectures on different aspects of sustainable development to career civil servants, officers of the armed forces, and parliamentarians. He is an acclaimed writer, who publishes in academic journals as well as mainstream print and electronic media. He is Editor-in-Chief of SDPI's peer-reviewed journal: “Journal of Development Policy, Research, and Practice,” and a series editor of Springers’ South Asia Economic and Policy Studies.
Dr Suleri earned his PhD in Food Security from the University of Greenwich, UK.
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