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Summary Shamshad Akhtar, former governor of State Bank of Pakistan, has been appointed as advisor to UN.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Thursday announced the appointment of Shamshad Akhtar, a former governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, as his senior advisor on Economic Development and Finance with the rank of Assistant Secretary-General in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).Shamshad Akhtar was until recently the Vice President, Middle East and North Africa at the World Bank. During her term as the State Bank of Pakistan Governor, she was nominated consecutively for two awards of Asias Best Central Bank and was ranked by the Asian Wall Street Journal as one of the top ten Asia women professionals in 2008.She is a seasoned economist and brings to the position over 30 years of global experience and an impressive track record of policy making and implementation in the economics, development and finance fields.In the multinational arena, Akhtar has served in various capacities at the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank including as the Special Senior Advisor to the President of the Asian Development Bank.
