Zafar Masud

Zafar Masud is a development and social impact-focused banker, entrepreneur and public sector expert with over 30 years of proven success stories in banking, development finance, energy and corporate governance within Pakistan and abroad. He has served as a board member of many prestigious institutions, including The Bank of Punjab (President & CEO); Oil & Gas Development Company Limited (Chairman); Pakistan Banks’ Association (Chairman); State Bank of Pakistan; InfraZamin Pakistan; Islamabad Policy Research Institute; National Institute of Business & Finance; Curriculum Committee of Beaconhouse National University; and Advisory Board of School of Business Studies of Institute of Business Administration, Karachi.

In May 2020, he miraculously survived the PK8303 airplane crash in Karachi. This life-changing moment propelled him to create even more exceptional success stories. He was decorated with one of the highest civil award of Hungary in August 2021 and featured—the only one outside the Western Hemisphere—in Master Mentors Volume 2 as one of the 30 greatest minds with transformative insights by bestselling author Scott Jeffrey Miller. A regular contributor to local and international media, he is also a TED Talks speaker and the author of Out of the Box—a collection of his op-ed pieces and presentations. He has lived in Mumbai since the time it was known as Bombay and calls the madding city the only home he knows.