Mr Shamim A Khan is the Chair of SDPI Board of Governor’s Finance Committee (BFC). After joining Civil Service of Pakistan in 1962, Mr Khan served in senior positions in the Government, particularly in the Ministry of Finance and retired as Secretary, Ministry of Commerce. For ten years, he worked in Corporate Law Authority, regulatory body for the corporate sector, as Member and later as Chairman. He restructured it as Securities and Exchange Commission and became its first Chairman. After leaving SECP, he has been serving as director of a number of listed companies. Presently, he is a non-executive director of Packages and IGI Insurance and Abbott Laboratories. He is also chairman of  IGI Life Insurance. Earlier, he has served on the boards of ABN AMRO/Royal Bank of Scotland, Linde Pakistan and Pakistan Reinsurance Company. He has also been associated with the non-government sector. For six years, he served as Member/Chairman, Certification Panel, Pakistan Center for Philanthropy and presently he is member of Advisory Committee of Center for International Private Enterprise. Mr Khan has undertaken a number of consultancy assignments for the Asian Development Bank, The World Bank and DFID.