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Shaheryar Azhar, Pakistani investment banker
February 2008
Topic: "Pakistan: What Next?"
Shaheryar Azhar joined Citibank in Pakistan and retired last year after thirty-two years. In between he worked with Citi as a corporate and investment banker in four continents, the last twenty-one years in New York. He has moderated an e-mail-based forum on Pakistan, Islam and the West since 1995. He has been hosting a Pakistani cable-channel show called “The Forum from New York” that is broadcast to over a hundred countries for the last two years. He is currently the President of an eighty-year old trade association of risk managers called “The Risk Management Association, New York Chapter” where all major national and international financial institutions are members. He also volunteers his time for the Muslim Public Affairs Council , which is a US-based public policy and media advocacy group . Shaheryar is married to Tasnim, a consultant to non-profit organizations and they have a daughter Samar, who is a trade with JP Morgan Chase. Mr. Azhar was in Pakistan when former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Butto was assassinated.
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