Tariq Banuri | |
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Education | Economics |
Alma mater | Harvard University University of Peshawar Williams College |
Tariq Banuri is an economist and scholar who served as the fourth chairperson of Pakistan's Higher Education Commission.[1][2][3][4] He is an associate fellow at the Tellus Institute, where he co-developed and coordinated the Great Transition Initiative.[5][6] His work has focused on climate change and sustainable development. He is also the founding executive director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in Islamabad, Pakistan.[5] He previously served as director of the United Nations Division for Sustainable Development,[7] and as chair of the steering committee for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)'s Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP).[8]