Chairman HEC
Born: N/A
Profession: Electrical Engineer
Affiliation(s): HEC
Citizenship: Pakistani
Profile Javaid Laghari is the current chairperson of the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. He is an academic, an aerospace scientist and an electrical engineer. He was previously Senator of Pakistan from the Pakistan Peoples Party. He was elected to the Senate of Pakistan in 2006 for a six year term and resigned in July 2009. He was also the President of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology. Prior to joining SZABIST, he was the Director of Graduate Studies and tenured professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He specializes in Energy and Power, Higher Education, Information Technology, Space Power Technology and leadership and has published over 120 research papers in refereed journals and presented over 70 papers at International Conferences. He is also the author of two books, "Reflections on Benazir Bhutto" and "Leaders of Pakistan". Laghari gained a national and international reputation during the "fake degree" saga of the parliamentarians in Pakistan in summer of 2010, when he took a principled stand and had HEC verify the degrees of all parliamentarians. As a reesult, a large number of parliamentarians were disqualified from the parliament. During the process, he received multiple threats, including to his life, and his younger brother, Farooq Laghari, a bureaucrat, was arrested by the Sindh government. Early life Laghari was born in Hyderabad where he completed his intermediate education. In 1967 he attended the University of Sindh where he completed his B.E. in electrical and electronics engineering in 1971. Laghari then traveled to Ankara, Turkey and completed his post graduate studies at the Middle East Technical University and received his M.S. in electrical engineering in 1975. He then traveled to United States and joined University at Buffalo, The State University of New York where he received his Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1980. US research work Laghari worked in the United States as a researcher at NASA, the Air Force Research Laboratory of AFOSR, the Office of Naval Research, the Naval Research Lab, the Defense Nuclear Agency, the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, the Strategic Defense Initiative, Hughes Aircraft and the Boeing Aerospace Company. He was Chairman of the 1992 IEEE International Conference on High Voltage Engineering and has organized numerous International Conferences and chaired a large number of Sessions and Workshops in the United States. Pakistani nuclear technology Laghari was the chairman of the Technical Standards Committee on Radiation Effects at the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission. He led the Pakistani delegation on nuclear safety at the United Nations. He was the representative on the United States Activities Board on Man and Radiation. He attended the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Space Systems and the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Fast Electrical and Optical Diagnostics Laghari was also the Chairman of the National Conference on Emerging Technologies 2004 (NCET2004) held in Pakistan in December 2004. Public service Laghari has been a Member of the Ministry of Science and Technology Human Resource Development Committee, the Private Export Software Board, the Pakistan Council for Science and Technology and The Sindh Information Technology Board. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and sites on the Executive Committee of the Asia University Federation and the Executive Committee of the Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World. He is the recipient of the 1987 Distinguished Leadership Award, the 1988 International Cultural Diploma of Honor, the 1994 IEEE Award for Leadership and dedicated Services and the 1999 "Tamgha-e-Imtiaz" award conferred by the President of Pakistan. Laghari is listed in the American Men and Women of Science, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in the East, and Who's Who in the World. Awardss Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (1999) International Cultural Diploma of Honor (1988) IEEE Award for Leadership and dedicated Services, (1994) Distinguished Leadership Award (1987) Bibliography Reflections on Benazir Bhutto,? SZABIST Publication, ISBN 978-969-8666-13-2, February 2008. Leaders of Pakistan, SZABIST Publication, ISBN 978-969-8666-14-9, August 2009. "Dielectric Films for High Temperature High Voltage Power Electronics", Materials for Electronic Packaging, written by J. R. Laghari and edited by Deborah D. L. Chung, Butterworth Publishers, 1994. Selected Research Papers and Patents Surface Flashover of Spacers in Compressed Gas Insulated Systems,J. R. Laghari and A. H. Qureshi, IEEE Transactions on Electrical Insulation, Vol. EI-16, No. 5, 1981, A Review of Particle-Contaminated Gas Breakdown, J. R. Laghari and A. H. Qureshi, "IEEE Transactions on Electrical Insulation, Vol. EI-16, No. 5, 1981,pp. 388–398. Spacer Flashover in Compressed Gases, J. R. Laghari, IEEE Transactions on Electrical Insulation, Vol. EI-20, vol. No. 1. Testing and Evaluation of Insulating Films: Part I: Description of Test Facilities at the University at Buffalo, J. R. Laghari, IEEE Electrical Insulation, Vol. 2, No.6, 1986. Testing and Evaluation of Insulating Films: Part II: Test Results using Facilities at the University at Buffalo, J. R. Laghari, IEEE Electrical Insulation, Vol. 2, No. 6, 1986. A Review of ac and Pulse Capacitor Technology, J. R. Laghari, Applied Physics Communications, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1986. On the Design of Field-Controlled Multi-Layer Foil Insulation, S. Cygan and J. R. Laghari,IEEE Transactions on Electrical Insulation, Vol. EI-22, No. 1, 1987, pp. 107–108. Multifactor Stress Aging of Dielectrics", J. R. Laghari, Applied Physics Communications, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1987. Repetitive Phenomena in Dielectics M. Treanor, J. R. Laghari and A. K. Hyder, IEEE Transactions on Electrical Insulation, Vol. EI-22, No. 4, 1987, pp. 517–522. Dependence of Electrical Strength on Thickness, Area and Volume of Polypropylene", S. Cygan and J. R. Laghari, IEEE Transactions on Electrical Insulation, Vol. EI-22, No. 6, 1987
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