Shahzad Shaukat
Financial Economist
Mr. Shahzad Shaukat is a distinguished Financial Economist with over 30 years of experience in financial systems, accounting, auditing, and corporate resource utilization. He holds a Master’s degree in Commerce from Hailey College, University of the Punjab, and is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan. He has advised multilateral organizations, state-owned enterprises, and leading conglomerates across the GCC, Europe, and the USA, collaborating with professional teams that previously worked with the World Bank and Chinese state-owned enterprises on policy development initiatives. His expertise spans international trade, transportation, aviation, special economic zones, infrastructure projects, reforms, Halal Banking, and non-banking financial services. He is currently the CEO of SEZ and Gulf Asia Management Limited, a special purpose vehicle established to design and implement policy frameworks aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while also advising Chinese state-owned enterprises on business and economic development. Mr. Shaukat has also made notable scholarly contributions to financial economics and Islamic finance. His submissions to the Federal Sharia Court include pioneering work on Real Business Valuation (challenging the MM Theory), the True Islamic Economic System, and Financial Economics and Value Mismatch - an emerging field in the Muslim world. He has presented at the 7th and 8th International Assam Islamic Union Model Congresses in Turkey on themes including justice systems in the Islamic Union and economic security through a common currency
