Mr Jameel Ahmad is the Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), a post he assumed in August 2022 for a five-year term. A career central banker, he has over three decades of experience at the SBP and the Saudi Central Bank.

Mr Ahmad joined the SBP in 1991 and served in various capacities, including Executive Director and Deputy Governor (2017–2021). In that role, he introduced risk-based bank supervision, implemented Basel capital adequacy standards, issued a digital banking framework, established a depositor protection scheme and launched Pakistan’s first retail payments gateway. He served the Saudi Central Bank as Adviser (2009–2015) and Senior Adviser (2021–2022), advising on policy and transformation projects. He has also chaired the Deposit Protection Corporation of Pakistan.

His expertise spans monetary policy, banking regulation and supervision, and payment systems, and he has contributed to international standards at the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the Financial Stability Board and the Islamic Financial Services Board.

Mr Ahmad holds an MBA from the University of the Punjab and is a Fellow of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan, the Institute of Bankers Pakistan and the Institute of Corporate Secretaries of Pakistan.