Shahid Hafeez Kardar | |
Birth Date: | 1952[1] |
Order: | 16th |
Office: | Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan |
Term Start: | September 8, 2010 |
Term End: | July 13, 2011 |
Successor: | Yaseen Anwar |
Predecessor: | Salim Raza |
Occupation: | Banker |
Shahid Hafeez Kardar is a Pakistani economist and former provincial finance minister. He served as the 16th Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan from September 2010 to July 2011.[2]
He was the acting Punjab Minister for Finance, Planning & Development, Excise and Taxation and Industries & Minerals Development from November 1999 to January 2001.[1] [3] Previously, he served as the Vice-Chancellor of Beaconhouse National University in Lahore.[4]
Kardar is the son of former Pakistani Test cricket captain Abdul Hafeez Kardar and belongs to an Arain family of Lahore.[5] He holds an accounting qualification from England and is a graduate of the University of Oxford.[6] His son, Hamza, is married to cricket commentator and sports presenter Zainab Abbas.[7]