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Introduction to
the Speaker Mr. Sultan Ali Barq is
an engineer and a devlopment planner. His education and training include civil
engineering, environment, energy, economic development, resource optmization, agricultural
development, agribusiness, rural development, system analysis and water resources.
Mr. Barq has undertaken advanced level on-work
training in economic development models, inter-sectoral integration, poverty alleviation,
structural adjustments, governance, banking, credit and finance management and resource
planning. He has extensive exerience in the project design and management of multisectoral
nature alongwith policy formulations and designs in Pakistan and a number of other
countries. He has written about 300 papers about governance, engineering, environment,
forestry, technical development, poverty alleviation and structural adjustment issues in
the third world. He is also an author of the book "Poverty by Choice". He has
participated in a number of projects in Pakistan, USA, gambia, Nepal and Saudi Arabia.
He is a member of international and national
organisations like the PUGWASH Group that received
the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1995, ISODARCO (International School for Disarmament and
Resolution of Conflicts) in Italy, national Think Tank for the Growth of Economy, Pakistan
Central Cotton Committe (PCCC) and the Khwarzimic Science Society. |