Mr Abdul Rasheed Jokhio is Director of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Energy Centre. He has over 20 years of experience in the energy sector. Since joining the Petroleum Division in 2006, he has worked on gas allocation and pricing, supply–demand management, gas contracts and regulatory affairs, and has served on the boards of state-owned oil and gas companies. He specialises in natural gas and liquefied natural gas policy, regulation and market management, and in evidence-based policy development. He holds a Master’s degree in Management and the Economics of Energy and Environment from ENI Corporate University, Italy, and a Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro.