Professor Ahsan Iqbal

Professor Ahsan Iqbal

Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives

Mr Iqbal was federal minister in 2017-18 and federal minister for planning in 2013-17. When he was deputy chairman of the Planning Commission in 1998-99, he devised Vision 2010 for Pakistan, a blueprint for the country’s long-term economic management and planning. He has been elected to the National Assembly several times between 1990 and 2018 and worked as Assistant to Prime Minister on public policy in 1993. He has been instrumental in starting several reforms programs in knowledge and good governance sectors and has also served as a professor of management at Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad, between 2000 and 2007.

Mr Iqbal has also worked as chairman of Pakistan Engineering Board as well as National Steering Committees on Information Technology and IQM and Productivity. He served as a senior an advisor of Al-Madinah Al-Monawarah Digital Economy Project (2004 to 2006) too.