Dr. Ahmed is the Joint Executive Director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad. He serves in an advisory capacity at many national, regional and international institutions and forums, such as the Fauji Foun Creative Cities project of the British Council Pakistan. He is also a member of the steering committee of Southern Voice Think Tanks Network and a council member of the energy committee of the National University of Science & Technology (NUST). An honorary research fellow at Partnership for Economic Policy, University of Laval in Canada, he has earlier worked as an advisor to the United Nations Development Program and as the head of the macroeconomics section at the Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives. He has also done various assignments with the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, and ministries of finance, planning and commerce. Dr. Ahmed has been a part of the government’s Advisory Panel of Economists in 2008, the Task Force on Private Sector Development in 2009, the Working Group on Macroeconomic Framework for the 10th Five Year Plan (2010-15) and the Working Group on Social Sector Development for Vision 2025. His research work on inclusive growth, trade, public finance and sustainable development has been published extensively and he has received fellowships from Germany’s Zeit-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, France’s Young Leaders Programme and IMF’s Civil Society Organizatins initiative. He holds a PhD in economics.