Mr. H. U. Beg

Mr. Beg, Pakistan’s former top financial policy maker and administrator, has held various key managerial and professional positions for about four decades. He has served several Federal Ministries as Secretary, including Fuel, Power and Natural Resources; Railways; and Planning and Development. He was Secretary Finance for eight years and earlier worked as Managing Director, Investment Corporation of Pakistan; Chairman, Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan; as well as State Life Insurance Corporation of Pakistan.

Besides his prominent background in the government and public sector organizations, he has made immense contributions in the private sector as well. He has been actively associated with studies and feasibility reports such as the ‘Stock Exchange Study - Private Investment Expansion Programme (391-0514)’ of USAID; ‘Flow of Funds - Primary Education Development Programme (PED)’ of USAID; a feasibility report for setting up an investment bank in Pakistan; and reports on ‘Crop Insurance for Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan,’ ‘Restructuring of Public Sector Corporations,’ ‘Economic and Social Well-being for the Eighth Five Year Plan,’ and ‘Mineral Policy of the Government of Pakistan.’
Mr. Beg graduated from the Punjab University, Pakistan in 1941 and attended a one year International Program on Taxation at the Harvard Law School, Cambridge, USA in 1956. During 1966, he studied at the Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School as a Visiting Scholar.