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Shahid Javed Burki (Urdu: شاہد جاوید برکی) (born 1938) is a Pakistani-American professional economist who has served as Vice President of the World Bank and as de facto Finance Minister of Pakistan on a caretaker basis. He has written extensively on economic development and on the political history of Pakistan.

Early life and education

Burki was born on 14 September 1938, in Simla in the Punjab Province of British India (now in Himachal Pradesh, India) into a Punjabi-speaking Pathan family of the Burki tribe. Burki's family migrated to Pakistan at the time of the Partition of India in September 1947. They settled in Rawalpindi, where his father worked as an official in the Pakistan army headquarters. Burki is a cousin of the cricketer Javed Burki.

Burki was educated at Presentation Convent High School, Rawalpindi and St Mary's College, Rawalpindi. Upon graduation he moved to Lahore to study double majors in Physics and Mathematics at Government College University, Lahore. He received his MSc in Physics from the Punjab University in 1959. The following year he was chosen as a Rhodes Scholar from Pakistan and went to Christ Church, Oxford to study economics. He received his MA from Oxford in 1963 and then went to Harvard University as a Mason Fellow for graduate studies in Economics and Public Administration. He holds dual Pakistani and US nationality.

Career at World Bank

Burki joined the World Bank in 1974 as a Senior Economist and went on to serve in several senior positions. He was the (first) Director of the China Department (1987–1994), making him responsible for managing the World Bank's dialogue with the Chinese authorities and supervising all of the Bank's analytical and lending work in China. He persuaded the World Bank's senior management, in the immediate aftermath of the Chinese authorities' repression of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, that the Bank should stay actively engaged with China, a stance challenged at the time by many of the Bank's most powerful shareholder countries. He served as the Regional Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean during 1994–1999. He took a leave of absence from the World Bank to serve in a caretaker role as Pakistan's de facto Finance Minister for 67 days in 1996–1997 (exercising the responsibilities of the Finance Minister without assuming the title). He retired from the World Bank in 1999.

Publications

Burki is the author or editor of several books on Pakistan, including: Pakistan Under Bhutto (1980, Macmillan); Pakistan under the Military: Eleven Years of Zia Ul-Haq (with Craig Baxter, 1991, Westview Press); Pakistan: Fifty Years of Nationhood (1999, Westview Press); A Historical Dictionary of Pakistan (1999, Scarecrow Press); and Changing Perceptions, Altered Reality: Pakistan's Economy under Musharraf, 1999–2006 (2007, Oxford University Press, Karachi). Other publications on development include: A Study of Chinese Communes (1969, Harvard University Press); First Things First (with Paul Streeten, 1981, Oxford University Press); and Transforming Socialist Economies: Lessons from Cuba and Beyond (edited, with Daniel P. Erikson, 2005, Palgrave Macmillan).

Other activities

In the past, Burki has written opinion pieces for a Pakistani newspaper (Dawn). He is currently a frequent contributor of opinion pieces to the Daily Times.

Burki is the Chairman of The Shahid Javed Burki Institute of Public Policy at NetSol (BIPP) in Lahore, Pakistan.

References

1. "Shahid Javed Burki Institute of Public Policy - About Us".
2. Pakistanis in North America, The Express Tribune
3. See Burki's short biography and list of publications at the website of the Peterson Institute for International Economics: "Biography: Shahid Javed Burki". Archived from the original on 20 June 2010. Retrieved 14 June 2010.
4. "Shahid Javed Burki, Author at the Express Tribune".
5. "Burki Institute of Public Policy (BIPP)".

v t e Finance ministers of Pakistan
Ghulam Muhammad Chaudhry Muhammad Ali Syed Amjad Ali Muhammad Shoaib N M Uqaili Syed Mohammad Ahsan Muzaffar Ali Khan Qizilbash Mubashir Hassan Rana Hanif Abdul Hafeez Pirzada Ghulam Ishaq Khan Mahbub ul Haq Yasin Wattoo Mahbub ul Haq Benazir Bhutto Sartaj Aziz Syed Babar Ali Benazir Bhutto Naveed Qamar Shahid Javed Burki Sartaj Aziz Ishaq Dar Shaukat Aziz Salman Shah Ishaq Dar Naveed Qamar Shaukat Tarin Abdul Hafeez Shaikh Saleem Mandviwalla Ishaq Dar Miftah Ismail Shamshad Akhtar Asad Umar Abdul Hafeez Shaikh Hammad Azhar Shaukat Tarin Miftah Ismail Ishaq Dar Shamshad Akhtar Muhammad Aurangzeb
Italics indicate acting or caretaker finance ministers

• 1938 births
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• Pakistani Rhodes Scholars
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• Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
• Harvard University alumni
• Pakistani bankers
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• University of the Punjab alumni
• Government College University, Lahore alumni
• Pashtun people
• Pakistani officials of the United Nations
• Pakistani emigrants to the United States
• Mason Fellows
• People from Shimla
• People from Punjab Province (British India)