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SHAUKAT
AZIZ
PROFILE
* Born at Karachi, 6th March 1949.
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Early education at Saint Patrick's School,
Karachi and Abbottabad Public School,
Abbottabad.
* Graduate ( B.Sc)in 1967
from Gordon College, Rawalpindi.
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Obtained MBA Degree in 1969 from Institute of
Business Administration, University of
Karachi.
* Started his career in 1969
when he joined Citibank, Karachi. Moved overseas
in 1975 and has since served in several
countries including the Philippines, Jordan,
Greece, USA, UK, Malaysia, Singapore and Saudi
Arabia. His assignments included Head of
Corporate and Investment Banking for the Asia
Pacific Region; Head of Corporate and Investment
Banking for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle
East and Africa Corporate Planning Officer,
Citicorp; Managing Director, Saudi American
Bank; and Global Head, Private Banking for
Citigroup. He was appointed Vice President of
Citibank in 1992 and has had 30 years of
experience in global finance and international
banking.
* Mr. Aziz is a frequent Speaker on
international finance and has attended numerous
forums, seminars and conference on international
finance as well as attended management course at
several universities. He has been a member of
the Board of several Citibank owned entities
including Saudi American Bank, Citi Islamic Bank
as well as several non-profit
organizations.
* In November 1999 Mr.
Aziz was appointed as Pakistan's Minister of
Finance with responsibility for Finance,
economic Affairs, Statistics, Planning and
Development and Revenue Division. As Minister of
Finance,Mr. Aziz is also Chairman of Economic
Coordination Committee of the Cabinet, Chairman,
Executive Committee of National Economic Council
and chairman, Cabinet Committee on
Privatization. 'Euro money ' and Bankers
Magazine' has declared him as the Finance
Minister of the year 2001. The democratically
elected Government of Prime Minister Jamali has
also retained him as Finance Minister, which
indicates continuation of Finance and Economic
Reforms Agenda. Mr. Aziz was elected Senator in
2002.
* Mr. Aziz enjoys golf, music and art. He is
married with three children.
* He was
elected as Member National Assembly in by
election from two constituencies, NA -59 Attock
NA- 239 Mithi, Tharparkar. He has retained the
Attock seat. Shaukat Aziz was sworn in as
23rd Prime Minister of Pakistan on
August 28, 2004.
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