The governing body of Harvard Club of Pakistan is an Executive Committee. It consists of current elected officers (President, Vice Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer, etc) and immediate past elected President (ex-officio).
Professionally trained as a doctor, Omar Mukhtar Khan joined the civil service in year 2000 and worked with Pakistan Customs for some time before doing his Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University. On return, Omar worked with Department for International Development (now Foreign and Commonwealth Development office, UK) as Governance Advisor for eight years. Besides Pakistan, he has undertaken assignments in serveral countries including United Kingdowm, Tanzania, Turkey, Austria, France, Ukraine and Slovenia. Currently he is Team Leader for Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED) programme and overseeing economic growth reforms in the province.
Omar was born in Lahore and has lived in many cities of Pakistan during the course of his life. A proud Abdalian, trekking and exploring Pakistan is a passion for Omar and he has written extensively on sustainable tourism and heritage. Omar lives in Lahore with his family can be contacted at omarmukhtar16@gmail.com
Aziz Nishtar, President (July 2014 thru June 2015):Aziz Nishtar is a Harvard Law School graduate and is a former Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax, a quasi-judicial office he held for almost 15 years. At Harvard Law School, in addition to his Master of Laws (LLM) in 2000, Aziz completed a postgraduate certificate program in international taxation and also trained in developing public policy and legal frameworks on commerce and taxation. While at HLS he was elected to represent the graduate students in the Student Council. He is the managing partner of Nishtar & Zafar, a law firm, which specializes in business, taxation, administrative and investment laws. He has advised numerous international and national clients on taxation, financial and corporate matters and has represented in mediation or litigation of controversies. He has advised federal and subnational governments in Pakistan of various development policy and institutional development issues in addition to working as a business and taxation lawyer representing multinational corporations and prestigious Pakistani companies. He is a member of the Privatization Commission of Pakistan. He is also a professionally trained mediator accredited internationally by the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution, UK. He is part of an IFC-supported small core group of mediators to pilot modern commercial mediations in Pakistan. Aziz is a also regular contributor and correspondent to the weekly Tax Notes International, and Worldwide tax Daily, USA based professional publications of global acclaim. He has been contributing as Secretary of Harvard Club of Pakistan (HCP) since 2012 to make it a sustainable and vibrant forum for the Harvard alumni in Pakistan. He was elected President of HCP in June 2014.
Adnan Afridi, President (July 2012 thru June 2013)Mr. Afridi has a degree in Economics (A.B, Magna Cum Laude, 1992) from Harvard University and a degree in Corporate Law (JD, Magna Cum Laude in 1995) from Harvard Law School. Mr. Afridi has over 18 years of experience in managing businesses in emerging markets. He started his career with Monitor Company, USA as a Strategy Consultant, designing business unit and corporate strategies for Fortune 50 companies in the financial services sector. Over the past ten years, Mr. Afridi has been facilitating foreign direct investment into Pakistan by assisting in Private Equity transactions, including key privatization transactions. Mr. Afridi has served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI) and Managing Director of Karachi Stock Exchange. Later, he was the Group Head Strategy & Investor Relations at Silk Bank. Currently, he is the CEO of Tethyan Group.
Harvard Club of Pakistan was revived in 2012