Asif Bajwa
Secretary, Planning & Development Division
 
 
Profile:
  • Joined District Management Group, in March 1977. With thirty five years of unblemished service at progressively senior positions. Now at the senior most position in the bureaucratic hierarchy. Areas of specialization include Fiscal and Financial Management, Legal & Corporate Affairs.
 
  • Education
    M.Sc Defence & Strategic Studies Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad – Pakistan 2000
    M.Sc Economics University of South Wales, Swansea – UK 1986
    LLB – Bachelor of Laws University of the Punjab, Lahore – Pakistan 1974
    B.A. Economics major Government College, Lahore – Pakistan 1972
 
  • Professional Experience:
  • Management
    • • Secretary / Chief Statistician, Statistics Division
      • - Setup the Pakistan Bureau of Statistic
    		 2010-12

  • Fiscal Management
    • • Special Secretary, Ministry of Finance
      • - Overview of working of the Finance Division, including IMF negotiation
    		 2009-10
    • • Additional Secretary External Finance
      • - Incharge of management of external sector in the Ministry of Finance
      • - Preparation of Balance of Payments and the foreign exchange budget
    		 2004-06;
    2007-09
    • • Joint Secretary Budget
      • - Incharge of formulating the federal budget and its approval from the Parliament and the Chief Executive
      • - Management of domestic debt of the Government of Pakistan
      • - Team leader responsible for implementation, monitoring and review of budgetary outlays for the entire year
      • - Actively involved in all IMF programes since 1995. Quarterly reporting to IMF on consolidated government fiscal operations. Responsible for monitoring and delivering on Overall Fiscal Deficit (OFD) as well as bank borrowing targets.
      • - Fiscal transparency and accounting: Accountal and reporting of fiscal operations of the federal and the provincial governments in consultation with the Controller General of Accounts and Accountant General Pakistan Revenues. Data dissemination to the IMF, World Bank and other donor agencies. Ensuring data quality. Actively involved in the ROSC report on Pakistan. Focal point on fiscal side for Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) Mission to Pakistan.
    		  
    • • IMF Resident Budget Advisor, Sana’a, Yemen
      • - IMF Resident Budget Advisor to the Government of Yemen, Ministry of Finance, Sana’a. Advised on the implementation of their budget reforms.
    		 2002-04

  • Public Investments and Project Planning
    • • Additional Secretary, Planning & Development Division
      • - Scrutiny, approval and monitoring of public sector investment proposals and publicly funded projects
    		 2006-07

  • District/Sub-Divisional Management
    • • Deputy Commissioner/Assistant Commissioner
      • - As district/sub-Divisional magistrate, managed judicial executive and revenue functions of the government in the special area. Head of the justice system and presided as magistrate in criminal and revenue courts.
    		 1991-92,
    1979-83
    • • Administrator/City Manager
      • - Mayor/Administrator of Faisalabad, third largest city of Pakistan. Managed the city exercising powers of Mayor. Major renovation of main city roads undertaken.
      • - Director, Punjab Small Industries Corporation 1986-89. As Director, facilitated the establishment of small industries through sanction and disbursement of credit, establishment and maintenance of industrial estates, management of service centers and provision of institutional support following the incubator concept.
    		 1991-92,
    1979-83

  • Corporate Sector
    • • Government appointed Director on various companies
      • - Served as Government nominee Director on a number of publicly listed companies. These include banks, oil and gas exploration companies, joint venture development finance institutions and utility companies, some of which are listed below. Have served on Audit committees of nearly all the above mentioned companies.
    		 since 1998
 
  • Board Membership:
  • Current
    • - Pak-Kuwait Investment Company

  • Previous
    • - Allied Bank of Pakistan
    • - SME Bank, Pakistan
    • - Karachi Electric Supply Company, Pakistan
    • - Oil and Gas Development Corporation of Pakistan
    • - Marri Gas Company, Pakistan
    • - Interstate Gas Company, Pakistan
    • - Pakistan Petroleum Limited
    • - Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund
    • - Equity Participation Fund
    • - Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Trade and Development Bank, Turkey
    • - Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), World Bank Group, USA
 
  • Training:
  • - IMF Training Institute, Washington DC.
 2006 Fiscal Policy-Financial Discipline, and Public Investment
  • - IMF-STI Singapore
 2006 Human Resource Management
  • - World Bank, Washington, USA
 2001 World Bank Conference on Public Pension Fund Management
  • - John F. Kennedy School of Govt., Harvard University, Boston USA
 2001 Executive Programme on Budgeting and Financial Management
  • - National Defence College, Islamabad
 2000 National Defence Course
  • - International Monetary Fund, USA
 1997 IMF Course on Public Finance
  • - National Institute of Public Administration Lahore, Pakistan
 1993 Advanced Management Course
  • - Pakistan Administrative Staff College, Lahore, Pakistan
 1990 Senior Executive Grid Management Course
 
  • Misc.
    • - Put in colour service during 1971-Pak India war as National Service inductee.