International Development & Public Sector Reform Expert

Sulaiman Shaukat Wasty

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Washington, DC 20016, USA

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Highlights Extensive experience in international development—spanning initial career in the Planning Commission of Pakistan to assignments with the World Bank Group and the United Nations. All-embracing involvement in country assistance policies and quality assurance (particularly for public sector reform and institutional development): in Mexico, the Caribbean, the Balkans, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, and East and South Asia. Adjunct Scholar at the Middle East Institute (2011-14). Founding Member of the Middle East and North Africa Consultants (2012-15). President of Sharakpur.

Work History President of Sharakpur Financial Integrity Services providing performance assessment services to corporations and governments on their public policy mandates. www.sharakpur.com. Recent clientele (2021-22) has included African Union and the King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID).

Senior Consultant to the World Bank Group (2000-ongoing)

The position consisted of several tasks. Public Expenditure Review of Kazakhstan. Implementation reporting and assessments of policy interventions in Jordan, Azerbaijan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Burundi, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Northern Macedonia, the Great Lakes Region of Africa Initiative, Social Protection, and the State and Peacebuilding Fund. Led initiatives of the Learning and Leadership Center (LLC). Panelist/Moderator of the Quality Assurance Group. Evaluation of International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) advisory services. While working at Independent Evaluation Group (1989-99): served as Member of the core teams for evaluating trade policy reforms, development operations assistance, annual reporting of results; and conducted performance assessments of the country partnership frameworks, analytical and advisory work, policy dialogue, and lending programs.

Senior Advisor and Consultant to United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (2006-16)

At the Independent Evaluation Office/Development Impact Group: Assessed the quality of decentralized country and thematic evaluations; contributed to Annual Report on Evaluation; reviewed evaluation products to refine methodology and inputs to the reporting of results to Secretary General; appointed as Team leader of a multi-disciplinary evaluation of the outcome of the Country Program Action Plan (2011-14) for Iraq; and served as Quality Assurance Advisor on developing a System of Decentralized Evaluations.

Managing Director of a Financial Integrity Services Company (2002-05)

G. William Miller, LLC was composed of a diversified team with experience and technical capabilities to combat the financing of terrorism and to address the inter-workings of global and domestic money laundering schemes.

National Public Servant (1975-83)

At the Planning Commission of Pakistan:

• Assistant Chief of International Economics Section (1975-80). Policy work on the balance of payments, external assistance requirements, and aid coordination—in the preparation and evaluation of national annual and long-term development plans.

• Special Assistant to the Minister for Finance, Planning and Development. (1982-83). Decision briefings on the formulation of Pakistan's Sixth Five-Year Plan (1983-88).

Other

Assignments Visiting Professorships

The Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins.

School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton. Brigham Young University.

Education • London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London

B.Sc. ECON. Honours, 1974.

• The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS),

The Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC. M.A., 1982.

• Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Ph.D., 1989.

Honors Honorary Secretary, the Grimshaw Club (LSE, 1973-74). United Nations Fellow (1980-82). Member, London School of Economics Society. Member of the Editorial Board, Pakistan Journal of American Studies, Quaid-e-Azam University, Member, Cornell Alumni Ambassadors Network. Member, Cornell 1865 Society.

Selected

Publications •Borrower Ownership of Adjustment Programs and the Political Economy of Reform, with John H. Johnson, Discussion Paper 199, The World Bank, 1993.

•World Bank Operations Evaluation Department—The First 30 Years. (co-editor)

The World Bank, 2003.

•Outcome Evaluation of UNDP’s Assistance to Iraq (2011-2014). (Team leader), with Abbas Balasem, David Gairdner, and Ban Yaseen. United Nations, 2012.

•’Socioeconomic Reforms in Oman: An Uncertain Sustainability’, with Christine Martin. The Middle East Institute, 2014.

•Degeneration of Public Services: A Strategic Commitment to Ignorance. (Pennsauken, New Jersey), 2019.

Additional Nationality: USA. Languages: Urdu (native), Punjabi (fluent), English (native).

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