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Rizwan Ahmed (civil servant)
Rizwan Ahmed (Urdu: رضوان احمد) is the current Chairman of Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) and a former grade 22 officer of the Pakistan Administrative Service who held top government offices of Maritime Secretary of Pakistan, Chairman Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP), Chairman Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC) and Additional Establishment Secretary. He did his two-year Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University and holds the rare distinction of having served as the chief executive of four state-owned organisations under the Government of Pakistan, the most by any individual in history at the federal level.
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 (TCP).
Rizwan held the high profile portfolio of Maritime Secretary of Pakistan for a period of almost three years, during which he also became the first ever Pakistani to be appointed as Chairman of INFOFISH, an intergovernmental organisation setup by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation.
He is considered to be one of the most successful Chairman of the Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC), having extensively expanded the national fleet during his tenure which led to PNSC posting its highest ever profit of PKR 30 billion. He remains the only individual to have served twice as Chairman & CEO of PNSC.
Rizwan also served as Managing Director of the highly sensitive Pakistan Security Printing Corporation (PSPC) where he was responsible for the printing of currency banknotes, ballot papers for elections and other important documents including passports and national identity cards.
He is a Certified Director from the Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance and remained a Teaching Fellow for Financial Management at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was promoted to the highest bureaucratic rank of grade 22 at the age of 55.