Haseeb Drabu

Haseeb A Drabu
Finance Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
In office
March 2015 – March 2018
Chairman and CEO of Jammu & Kashmir Bank
In office
2005–2010
Air Works (Director on board)
Assumed office
2021
Personal details
Born1961 (age 62–63)
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Political partyJammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party (2014-2018)
SpouseRoohi Nazki
EducationMPhil
Alma materCentre for Development Studies (Trivandrum)
OccupationPolitician, economist

Haseeb A Drabu (born 1961) is an Indian politician, economist and the former member of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly from Rajpora constituency in Pulwama district.[1] He was elected as Finance Minister of Jammu and Kashmir in the BJP-PDP coalition government from 2015 to 2018.[2]

He has worked as a lawmaker, policy planner, banker and an economic commentator.

Drabu is married to his second wife Roohi Nazki, a former Tata Interactive Systems executive who later returned to Srinagar to start a tea-house.[3][4]

  1. ^ "He rarely came, never listened: villagers who elected Haseeb Drabu". The Indian Express. 14 March 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Ex-banker Haseeb Drabu takes over new Finance Minister of Jammu and Kashmir". DNA India. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
  3. ^ "Roohi Nazki, Wife of PDP Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu asks Govt to Step Down". SabrangIndia. 22 July 2016. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
  4. ^ Bhat, Saima (10 July 2016). "A Brewing Success". Kashmir Life. Retrieved 24 May 2022.