Yaseen Anwar

Yaseen Anwar
17th Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan
In office October 20, 2011 – January 31, 2014
President	Asif Ali Zardari Mamnoon Hussain
Deputy	Kazi Abdul Muktadir Ashraf Mahmood Wathra
Preceded by	Shahid Hafeez Kardar
Succeeded by	Ashraf Mahmood Wathra
Deputy Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan
In office March 29, 2007 – October 18, 2011
President	Pervez Musharraf
Succeeded by	Kazi Abdul Muktadir
Personal details
Born	Yaseen Anwar (1951-03-31) March 31, 1951 (age 73) Karachi, Sindh, Dominion of Pakistan
Alma mater	Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Aitchison College Karachi Grammar School

Yaseen Anwar (born March 31, 1951) is a Pakistani-American banker who had been the Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan from 20 October 2011 to 31 January 2014. He previously also acted as deputy governor and has 33 years of experience in international banking. Anwar holds a dual Pakistan and US citizenship. He is a graduate of the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.^[1][2]

Before that, Yaseen Anwar acted as Deputy Governor from 2007 to 2011. During this tenure as Deputy Governor, he served as Acting Governor for 3 months each in 2010 and 2011 prior to being confirmed as Governor.^[3] After the State Bank, he served as Senior Advisor to the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China out of Singapore and Pakistan from 2014 to 2020. In 2020 he was the founding Chairman of Yaseen Anwar & Associates, a management consultancy based in Karachi, Pakistan. He is also Senior Advisor in Pakistan to the International Finance Corporation for Sustainable Banking, a member of the World Bank Group. Prior to his joining the State Bank of Pakistan, he had a long international banking career in New York, Paris, London, and Egypt with JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Merrill Lynch.^[4]