Shamshad Akhtar

Shamshad Akhtar
Akhtar at the World Economic Forum in October 2010
Minister of Finance
In office
17 August 2023 – 4 March 2024
PresidentArif Alvi
Prime MinisterAnwar ul Haq Kakar
Preceded byIshaq Dar
Succeeded byMuhammad Aurangzeb
In office
5 June 2018 – 18 August 2018
PresidentMamnoon Hussain
Prime MinisterNasirul Mulk
Preceded byMiftah Ismail
Succeeded byAsad Umar
Executive Secretary of United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP)
In office
10 December 2013 – 2018
Preceded byNoeleen Heyzer
Succeeded byArmida Salsiah Alisjahbana
14th Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan
In office
2 December 2006 – 1 January 2009
Prime MinisterYousaf Raza Gillani
Preceded byIshrat Hussain
Succeeded bySyed Salim Raza
Vice President of World Bank for Middle East and North Africa
In office
1 January 2009 – 6 July 2009
Personal details
Born1954 (age 69–70)
Hyderabad, Sindh, Dominion of Pakistan
Political partyIndependent
Alma materUniversity of the West of Scotland (PhD)
University of Sussex (MA)
Quaid-i-Azam University (MSc)
University of the Punjab (BA)

Shamshad Akhtar is a Pakistani development economist, United Nations diplomat, banker and politician who served as the caretaker finance minister of Pakistan from 2023 to 2024 as well as from 5 June 2018 to 18 August 2018.[1][2]

Prior to that, she served as the 14th Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, the first woman to assume this position. She also served as a senior adviser to the then Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon and as Vice-President of the World Bank.[2][3][4]

In December 2013, Akhtar was selected by the UN Secretary-General[3] as Under-Secretary-General and the 10th Chief Secretary of the Monetary and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).[3]

Since 17 August 2023, she has been serving as care taker Federal Minister of Finance.

  1. ^ "Caretaker cabinet of PM Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar sworn in". Geo.tv. 17 August 2023. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Biography of Executive Secretary Shamshad Akhtar". United Nations ESCAP website. 2 February 2014. Archived from the original on 17 January 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
  3. ^ a b c "Former SBP governor appointed Executive Secretary UNESCAP". The Express Tribune (newspaper). 10 December 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Dawn2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).