Transforming Pakistan's Agriculture
Revolutionizing Agriculture in Pakistan: Meet the Dedicated Team
Core Team
Kazim Saeed
Chief Executive Officer
Kazim Saeed
Chief Executive Officer
Kazim Saeed is a policy and strategy professional focusing on multiple aspects of economic development. For 25 years, he has provided energy policy advice to the governments of developing countries with the World Bank. Over the past decade, he has built new business models for growth in agriculture with Pakistan’s largest business groups, the Asian Development Bank, USAID, etc., through a unique non-profit called Pakistan Agricultural Coalition, which he co-founded and has recently joined as CEO.
Kazim Saeed serves on the boards of pioneering companies: Naymat Collateral, Khushhaal Kissan, and Indus Acres. He also serves as the Chairman of Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA), one of Pakistan's leading civil society organizations focused on enhancing learning and school education. He is the author of an award-winning book titled “Dou Pakistan: Har Pakistani Gharanay Tak Khushhaali” which presents a comprehensive strategy for delivering prosperity to every Pakistani household by Pakistan's 100th birthday in 2047.
Kazim Saeed holds dual Bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and the History and Philosophy of Science from Cornell University (USA) and a Master’s degree in Public Affairs from Princeton University (USA).
Rabia Zulfiqar
Senior Strategy Associate
Rabia Zulfiqar
Senior Strategy Associate
Rabia has worked as a development professional with experience in public-private partnerships, service delivery and stakeholder engagement across public-private sectors. At Pakistan Agricultural Coalition, she has been supporting Mehrgarh Kasht Private Limited’s traceability and sustainability initiative, and is also facilitating Pakistan Agricultural Coalition expand its strategic reach through new public-private partnerships. Previously, Rabia has worked at one of the leading international crop insurance tech companies, Pula Advisors, in 2022, and has experience in project management, service delivery and stakeholder management from her work at the Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS) Pakistan, where she worked as a Project Manager for the Human Development Cluster. She holds an MPA (Master of Public Administration) from Cornell University.
Shan E Ahmed
Senior Strategy Associate
Shan E Ahmed
Senior Strategy Associate
Shan is a development consultant with almost 8 years of experience in designing, strategizing, management, and evaluation of multifaceted agriculture projects. He has been working on PAC’s initiatives for revival of cotton cultivation and improving financial inclusion of farmers. He has also co-authored a report for IFC on identifying hurdles for scale-up of the electronic warehouse receipts regime with a deep dive into four major agricultural value chains. Previously, he has worked with CropLife Pakistan as a Research Manager where he led a market assessment of Pakistan’s crop protection industry and has also been a consultant for a study by Oxford Policy Management on climate resilient agriculture. He holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration (MPA) from Cornell University with a concentration in International Development and a specific focus on private sector-led agricultural development.
Saffa Imran
Strategy Associate
Saffa Imran
Strategy Associate
Saffa Imran graduated from Lahore School of Economics with a degree in Economics & Political Science. She has been working at Pakistan Agricultural Coalition as a Strategy Asscoiate for the last two years with a focus on project management and coordination for the Traceable & Sustainable Cotton Cultivation Project. She has previous experience working as a Research Associate in the Innovation and Technology Center of the Lahore School for three years, which involved data collection and analysis for three issues of the Lahore School Business Confidence Survey, and has also assisted the Dean of Economics in co-authoring a report on “The Impact of Coronavirus on Exports 2020.”