Author Biography

Asad Sayeed is a senior researcher and director at the Collective for Social Science Research in Karachi. Prior to 2003, Sayeed was the director of research and a senior economist at the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research and the Social Policy and Development Centre, respectively. From 2008 to 2010, Sayeed served on the Panel of Economists established by the Planning Commission, Government of Pakistan. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge. Khurram Husain is a business and economy journalist with Dawn, based in Karachi. Previously, he worked in television for six years, providing pieces for BBC and CNN, among others. From 2013 to 2014, he served as the Pakistan scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC, where he researched the history of Pakistan’s relationship with the International Monetary Fund. Syed Salim Raza served as the governor of the State Bank of Pakistan from 2009 to 2010. Previously, he set up and served as chief executive officer (2006–08) of the Pakistan Business Council, a research and advocacy body that represents forty-seven of Pakistan’s largest business enterprises.