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| Executive Director Center For Research and Security Studies | | Born: N/A | | Profession: Analyst | | Affiliation(s): Center For Research and Security Studies | | Citizenship: Pakistani | | Views: 12,433 | Comments: 0 | Votes: 10 |
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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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