President, International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI) Dr. Ahmed Yousif Al-Draiweesh
has felicitated Dr Tariq Banuri for his appointment as new chairman of the Higher Education Commission (HEC).
In a felicitation message on IIUI website, the IIUI President said that “Want to congratulate Dr Tariq Banuri on being appointed Chairman HEC”.
“I am convinced that during his mandate, academic excellence and higher education will continue to improved further “ Dr. Al-Draiweesh added. IIUI President vowed that he will be in the leading ranks for cooperation with the HEC chief as per his aspirations for improvements in higher education.
The prime minister picked Dr Banuri out of four names forwarded to him by a six-member search committee for final selection.
The newly appointed chairman of the HEC tops the list of four names forwarded by the committee to the prime minister. Working as professor at the University of Utah, Dr Tariq Banuri holds a PhD degree in economics from the Harvard University and MA in development economics from the Williams College. He started his career in the civil service of Pakistan and then joined the United Nations as research fellow at the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), a model that he adopted in setting up and serving as the founding executive director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) in Islamabad. He is also author of 20 books, in addition to more than 30 research papers.