Dr. Abid Qaiyum Suleri

Dr. Abid Qaiyum Suleri

Executive Director , Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI); Pakistan

Dr Abid Qaiyum Suleri is the executive director of Sustainable Development Policy Institute
(SDPI). He is a leading expert on sustainable development, political economy of public policy,
food security, and climate change. He has served in various national and regional policy
making forums and has represented Pakistan in several official and civil society delegations at
the global level.

Dr Suleri is currently a member of the International Advisory Committee of COP29 (an
advisory body to the COP29 Presidency), and appointed as a Member Advisory Council, of
Asian Development Bank Institute (2024-26) for a term of two years. He is a member of the
Pakistan Climate Change Council, the Board of Directors of the National Disaster Risk
Management Fund (NDRMF), the Board of Directors of Benazir Income Support Program
(BISP), and the Board of Governors of National School of Public Policy.

Previously, he was a member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council/National
Economic Advisory Council for three terms (2013-2022), the National Advisory Council of
the Planning Commission of Pakistan for two terms (2013-2022), and Coordinator of the Prime
Minister’s Agriculture Transformation Plan (2021-2022). He also served on the Government
of Punjab’s Vice Chancellors’ Search Committee for Agricultural Universities, a member of
the Finance Minister’s Task Force on the Effectiveness of Social Safety Nets (2016-17), the
Board of Management (Board of Directors) of Pakistan State Oil (2009-2011), and four judicial
commissions on environmental issues formed by the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Islamabad
High Court, and Lahore High Court.

Dr. Suleri is a member of the Permanent Organizing Committee of the South Asia Economic
Summit. He was also a member of the Advisory Board of the CAREC (Central Asia Regional
Economic Cooperation) Think-Tank Network and a co-chair of the Board of Climate Action
Network, South Asia, for two terms. He was the lead expert for the World Economic Forum’s
“Transformation Mapping” initiative from Pakistan.

Dr Suleri has participated in various international events, such as the UN Sustainable
Development Summit, the UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COPs), and WTO Ministerial
Conferences. He is a regular guest speaker and delivers lectures on different aspects of
sustainable development to career civil servants, officers of the armed forces, and
parliamentarians. He is an acclaimed writer, who publishes in academic journals as well as
mainstream print and electronic media. He is Editor-in-Chief of SDPI’s peer-reviewed journal:
“Journal of Development Policy, Research, and Practice,” and a series editor of Springers’
South Asia Economic and Policy Studies. Dr Suleri earned his PhD in Food Security from the University of Greenwich, UK.

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