The Economy: Is a Crash Coming?

Join us for a conversation on the nature of Pakistan’s economic crisis and what it will take to fix it. The session will be moderated by Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy.

About the speaker:

Ijaz Nabi is Executive Director, Consortium for Development Policy Research (CDPR) and Country Director (Pakistan) International Growth Centre hosted jointly by the London School of Economics and Oxford University. He is a non-resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development, Washington DC. He was Professor of Economics and Dean, Social Sciences at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and continues to teach Economic Policy.  He has been a member of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council and Advisor (Economic Affairs) to Chief Minister, Punjab. He was at the World Bank in Washington DC (1986-2008) and worked on Mexico, Korea, Thailand (leading the World Bank team during the East Asian financial crisis), Malaysia, Korea, Laos and Myanmar, and in 2002-2008 was Manager, Economic Policy, for South Asia region. He has published extensively on economic growth, investment and finance, industrialization, international trade and labor markets in developing countries. He has a BA from Government College Lahore, B.Sc. Honors from London School of Economics and a PhD from Warwick University, UK.