Masuma Hasan

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Dr. Masuma Hasan is a scholar who remained first women Ph.D. and first women Federal Secretary of Pakistan. She was the Chairperson of Group of 77 at the UN in Vienna, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations Office in Vienna & International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and other international organizations, and Pakistan’s ambassador to International Atomic Energy Agency and Austria (with accreditation to Slovenia and Slovakia).

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[edit] Education

Ph.D. (Economics and Politics) University of Cambridge, UK, 1967.

M.A. (Political Science) University of Karachi, 1962.

[edit] Career

  • 1994 – 1997 Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations Office in Vienna, IAEA, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and other international organizations in Vienna, and
  • Ambassador of Pakistan to Austria with accreditation to Slovenia and Slovakia
  • Chairperson, Group of 77 at the UN in Vienna 1996 and Pakistan's Permanent Representative
  • 1991 – 1994 Director, National Institute of Public Administration, Karachi
  • 1984 – 1990 Director General, Management Services Division, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad and Karachi
  • 1981 – 1984 Director, Public Administration Research Centre, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad
  • 1967 – 1981 Member of the faculty, National Institute of Public Administration, Karachi

[edit] Career as Cabinet Secretary

Dr. Masuma remained engaged in Public Policy formulation and follow up of implementation in all significant development sectors, policy coordination among federal ministries and between the federal and provincial governments, communications security internal and in missions abroad, coordination of disaster management policies, disaster and emergency relief within the country and abroad, policy and administrative coordination of regulatory authorities for public utilities, liaison and interaction with international agencies, NGOs and pressure groups, rules of business in the federal government. Evolving policies for technical assistance to developing countries for industrial development and the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, international cooperation for narcotics and drugs control, crime prevention and criminal justice, arms and aliens smuggling, women’s rights and gender issues. Human resource management and development: training, research and consultancy (as Director, NIPA Karachi and Director General, Management Services Division) Administrative and civil service reforms, in -service training and capacity building for public servants, developing training frameworks and curricula, management options for public sector and corporate organizations, providing management consultancy for institution building and reorganization, streamlining and simplification of procedures. Public diplomacy (as Chairperson, The Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, Karachi) Formulation of programmes and seminars on issues in international politics and promotion of foreign policy dialogue with academia, the media, focal groups and institutions. Publications and consultancies Consultant to UN Country Team Islamabad on designing a United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for Pakistan, 2002. Management studies for the Management Services Division are numerous and unpublished. Editor and contributor to Pakistan in a Changing World, Karachi 1978, and author of papers on public administration, institution building, federalism, international relations, boundaries.

[edit] Activities

Member, Board of Governors, Sustainable Development Policy Institute Islamabad ; member, Board of Governors, Aurat (Women’s) Foundation Lahore; member, Board of Governors, Institute of Business Administration Karachi 2002-2005; Chairperson, Working Group on Gender and Development set up in 2004 by the Planning Commission to prepare for the Medium Term Development Framework 2005-10; Chairperson, Search Committee for the Vice- Chancellor of the Federal Urdu University; member, Foreign Policy Advisory Group 1999-2000; member, Aga Khan University’s International Task Force on the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations 1998-2001; member of the Syndicate, University of Karachi 1998-2001; Chairperson, Group of 77 at the United Nations in Vienna 1996; leader, Pakistan’s delegation to the Conference of the Ministers of Industry of Asia and the Pacific Region and UNIDO’s Global Forum on Industry, October 1995; delegate to the 49th UN General Assembly session 1994; Chairperson, The Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, Karachi 1989-1994; member, Services Reforms Commission Government of Pakistan 1989-1994 and other official committees and working groups on reforms in the public sector.

Resource person at institutions of learning and speaker at conferences and seminars in Pakistan and abroad, including the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington) 2000 on Nuclear Non-Proliferation; The Brookings Institution (Washington) 2000 and The Henry L. Stimson Center (Washington) 2000 on Kashmir; Salzburg Seminar 1998 on East Asian Security: The Role and Impact of United States’ Foreign Policy; Shanghai Institute of International Studies (Shanghai) 1994 on Sino-South Asian Relations; National Defense University (Washington) 1993 on From Containment to Stability: Toward a Strategy for the Post Cold War Era ; Institute of Political and International Studies (Tehran) 1993 on Pakistan and Regional Developments in Asia.

[edit] Books