Ishrat Husain is Adviser to the Prime Minister on Institutional Reforms and Austerity. During 2016-17, he was Public Policy Fellow at Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC. He has served as Dean and Director, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi; Chairman, National Commission for Government Reforms; and Governor, State Bank of Pakistan. He has also had a distinguished career at the World Bank for over two decades. He has a Masters in
Development Economics from Williams College and a PhD in Economics from Boston University. He is a graduate of the Executive Development programme jointly sponsored by Harvard, Stanford, and INSEAD. He has received the highest civilian awards, the Nishan-e-Pakistan (2016) and the Hilal-e-Imtiaz (2003). His other
publications include Pakistan: The Economy of an Elitist State (OUP 1999), Economic Management in Pakistan 1999-2002 (OUP 2003), Governing the Ungovernable (OUP 2018), and The Economy of Modern Sindh (OUP 2019).