Ishrat Hussain

Ishrat Husain is a Pakistani civil servant who served as governor of the State Bank of Pakistan from 1999 to 2006, dean of the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) from 2008 to 2016, and advisor to the Prime Minister on Institutional Reforms and Austerity from 2018 to 2022. Husain is the Chairman of IBA's Centre for Excellence in Islamic Finance (CEIF), which has for objective the dissemination of knowledge in the field of Islamic finance.

Early life and education Ishrat Husain was born 1941 in Agra, British India. Husain's family relocated from Agra to Karachi in 1947 due to the partition of British India. He completed his early education in Karachi and later studied at the Government College Hyderabad.

In 2008, he was appointed the Dean of IBA Karachi, in 2015 he was awarded the Nishan-e-Imtiaz by President Mamnoon. He resigned as the dean of IBA in 2016, however remains the Professor Emeritus of the institute. During his tenure, IBA expanded from a solely business school to an interdisciplinary university. In 2016, Hussain joined the Woodrow Wilson Center as a resident policy fellow.

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Awards and achievements

Jinnah Award (2005) for services to people as Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan.