Executive Director Center For Research and Security Studies
Born: N/A
Profession: Analyst
Affiliation(s): Center For Research and Security Studies
Citizenship: Pakistani
Profile Dr. Farrukh Saleem is the Executive Director of Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS), a newly established (Dec 07) think-tank focusing on Pakistan’s political/economic, security, regional and environmental issues. CRSS is taken to be the first civil society initiative to conduct independent research on various crucial issues facing Pakistan. at present, Dr. Saleem is directing CRSS’s research team researching the curriculum taught in state-run schools. On the culmination of this research exercise, a lobbying effort will be undertaken to convince Pakistan’s new parliament into changing the curricula. In-tandem with the research on curricula, CRSS is occupied arranging a national level review conference on Pakistan’s water security and management practices in March 2008.Dr Saleem was trained in the discipline of finance and has been the Sunday-columnist for The News, Pakistan’s largest English-language daily, for the past 5 years. From 1988-1994, he managed an eight figure equities portfolio invested in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). In 1996, he covered Pakistan, India and Iran for the Vancouver Sun, Canada’s 2nd Largest English daily. He returned to Pakistan in 1993 and managed the affairs of Dominion Stock Fund Limited (DSFL) as the CEO (DSFL is listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange). Prior to writing for The News, he wrote a weekly column for The Dawn (1996-1999). He has also been a guest columnist for the Hong Kong-based, Far Eastern Economic Review. He is married and lives in Islamabad. He has two daughters and a son.
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