Dr Ijaz Nabi serves as Honorary Executive Director of Consortium for Development Policy Research and Pakistan Country Director of the International Growth Centre, jointly hosted by the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford. He is also a former Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC.

He spent 22 years at the World Bank in Washington, DC, working on Mexico, Korea, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia and Thailand. During the East Asian financial crisis, he led the World Bank’s team in Thailand and subsequently served as Manager, Economic Policy for South Asia (2002–2008). He has also advised the Chief Minister of Punjab on Economic Affairs and served as a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the State Bank of Pakistan.

Dr Nabi teaches Economic Policy at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and has published extensively on economic growth, investment, finance, industrialisation, international trade and labour markets in developing countries. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from Government College Lahore, a Bachelor of Science (Honours) from the London School of Economics and a PhD from the University of Warwick, UK.