Ishrat Husain

Ishrat Hussain
Advisor to the Prime Minister for Institutional Reforms & Austerity
In office
27 August 2018 – 11 April 2022
PresidentArif Alvi
Mamnoon Hussain
Prime MinisterImran Khan
13th Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan
In office
2 December 1999 – 1 December 2005
Prime MinisterZafarullah Khan Jamali
Shaukat Aziz
Preceded byMuhammad Yaqub
Succeeded byShamshad Akhtar
Dean of IBA Karachi
In office
2008–2016
GovernorIshrat-ul-Ibad Khan
Succeeded byFarrukh Iqbal
Personal details
Born (1941-06-17) 17 June 1941
Alma materUniversity of Sindh
Williams College
Boston University
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Ishrat Husain is a Pakistani civil servant who served as governor of the State Bank of Pakistan from 1999 to 2006, dean of the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) from 2008 to 2016, and advisor to the Prime Minister on Institutional Reforms and Austerity from 2018 to 2022. Husain is the Chairman of IBA's Centre for Excellence in Islamic Finance (CEIF), which has for objective the dissemination of knowledge in the field of Islamic finance.