Dr Vaqar Ahmed is Joint Executive Director, Sustainable Development Policy Institute and 

serves in advisory capacity at many national, regional and international institutions and forums. He is a member of the Steering Committee of Southern Voice Think Tanks Network and Council Member of Energy Committee of the National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST). An honorary Research Fellow at Partnership for Economic Policy, University of Laval in Canada, he has earlier worked as an advisor to United Nations Development Programme and as the head of macroeconomics section at the Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives. Dr Ahmed was part of the Government of Pakistan’s Advisory Panel of Economists in 2008, Task Force on Private Sector Development in 2009, Working Group on Macroeconomic Framework for 10th Five Year Plan (2010-15) and Working Group on Social Sector Development for Vision 2025. His research on inclusive growth, trade, public finance, and sustainable development has been published extensively and he has received fellowships from Germany’s Zeit-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, France’s Young Leaders Programme and IMF’s Civil Society Organizations initiative.