Rizwan Ahmed is a retired

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officer of the

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who served as a

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, and is currently serving as Member Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) since December 2022. He did his two-year Masters in Public Administration from

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and joined the civil service in 1988. He was promoted to the country's highest civil service rank of

in 2017. He first came to the fore when he saved more than PKR 7 billion of the national exchequer through a sweeping anti-corruption drive and commodity financing operation during his tenure as Chairman of the Trading Corporation of Pakistan. Rizwan, in his capacity as Federal Secretary Maritime Affairs, became the first ever Pakistani to hold the chairmanship of INFOFISH, an intergovernmental organisation based in

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with twelve countries as its members including Pakistan,

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, and

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. In 2022 during Rizwan's tenure as Chairman of the Pakistan National Shipping Corporation, the national flag carrier earned a net profit of more than PKR 5 billion, the highest ever in the Corporation's history.

Family

Rizwan is the son of Jamil Ahmed, the former twice-elected Mayor of Hyderabad; and is the son-in-law of former FSC Chief Justice

Haziqul Khairi Haziqul Khairi ( ur, حازق‌ الخيری ; born November 5, 1931) is a Pakistani jurist and author who served as Chief Justice of the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan, Judge of the Sindh High Court, Ombudsman of Sindh and Principal ...

Career

Rizwan Ahmed joined the

in 1988. He reached the highest pay scale of

in 2017 and attained the age of superannuation in December 2021. He is currently serving as Member Sindh Public Service Commission. He previously served in the

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as Federal Secretary for Maritime Affairs, twice as Chairman of the

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, Chairman of the

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, Additional Secretary

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and Additional Secretary

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. Before joining the

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, Rizwan served at the provincial level as Health Secretary of Sindh, Secretary to Governor Sindh, Secretary General Administration (SGA&CD Sindh) and as Deputy Commissioner of

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. During the early stages of his career, he served as Director Local Government

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and Assistant Commissioner of

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and

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