CURRICULUM VITAE Dr. Akmal Hussain CURRENT Dr. Akmal Hussain specializes in action research on development. He runs a family owned manufacturing firm and is Distinguished Professor of Economics at Beaconhouse National University, Senior Fellow at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), member Syndicate of the Government College University, member Board of Governors of the South Asia Centre for Policy Studies (SACEPS) and adjunct faculty, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He was the Principal Author of the UNDP, Pakistan National Human Development Report 2003. He has delivered lectures in the Distinguished Academic Visitor series at the University of California, Riverside in November 2004. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Dr. Akmal Hussain has a B.A. Honours Degree in Economics from Cambridge University and Ph.D. in Economics from Sussex University. National He has lectured on economic development to a broad range of Pakistan s society: Ranging across students, peasants, industrial workers, government officials, officers in military institutions, executives in the private and public corporations and officials in multilateral agencies. He was Chairman, Public Administration Department, Punjab University and is adjunct faculty at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS); has lectured widely at premier training institutions, including Pakistan Administrative Staff College, NIPA, the Civil Services Academy, National Defence College, the Command and Staff College, the National College of Arts, and WAPDA Academy Tarbela. He has made a presentation on economic policy at the Pakistan National Assembly. International He has been an economics lecturer at the University of California, Riverside. He has also made presentations on economic policy at Harvard University, the United Nations in Geneva, and the Foreign Ministries of the Governments of the United Kingdom, Japan, the Netherlands, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Foreign Service Training Institute of the U.S. State Department. POLICY ADVICE He was the Principal Author of the UNDP, Pakistan National Human Development Report (2003). Many of the policy proposals for pro-poor growth were adopted by the Government of Pakistan. He was member of the Prime Minister s Task Force on Poverty Alleviation and Employment Generation in 2004, member of the President Musharraf s Economic Advisory Board during 1999-2002 and earlier a member of the Prime Minister s Economic Affairs 1
Committee as an independent economist working on an honorary basis, until May 1998. In May 1997 he prepared the Report of the Task Force on Poverty Eradication, as its Chairman. Some of the proposals of the Report were later adopted by the government as part of National Policy. He was Chairman of the working group on Poverty Alleviation for the preparation of the Ninth Five- Year Plan 1998-2003 and has also contributed to the Report of the National Commission on Agriculture. INSTITUTION BUILDING FOR RESEARCH AND POLICY ACTION Local He has worked as a social mobilizer to enable local communities to acquire basic services in Inayatabad (near Muzzafarabad) and Okara (Punjab). During 1998 he worked as honourary Chief Executive Officer of the Punjab Rural Support Program (PRSP). In this capacity he helped establish this poverty alleviation institution, and got it to a flying start forming 1100 community organisations in eight divisions of rural Punjab in the first four months. National He has also helped to establish the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) and Leadership for Environment and Development Pakistan (LEAD) as the founding member of the Board of Directors of both institutions. He was also founding board member of the Punjab Vocational Training Council. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of Ghazi Barotha Taraqiati Idara (1997-98). International He has been working for regional cooperation in South Asia as a member Board of Governors of the South Asia Centre for Policy Studies (SACEPS) and earlier the Independent Group for South Asian Cooperation (IGSAC). The IGSAC proposals on regional cooperation were adopted at the Colombo SAARC Summit 1991 and some of the proposals of South Asia Centre for Policy Studies (SACEPS) were adopted at the Islamabad SAARC Summit in January 2004. 2
CONTRIBUTION TO MAJOR NEW IDEAS IN ECONOMICS AND ECONOMIC POLICY 1. Participatory Development Jointly pioneered (with Ponna Wignaraja et.al) the concept and methodology of Participatory Development 1. Later put this methodology into practice as the first CEO of the Punjab Rural Support Programme 2. 2. Regional Economic Cooperation in South Asia (a) Contributed to the pioneering studies that established the analytical basis of economic cooperation and peace in South Asia as a member of the United Nations University, South Asia Perspectives Project 3, in the 1980s and subsequently as a member of the Independent Group for South Asian Cooperation (IGSAC). The major proposals of the IGSAC paper (Moving into Core Areas of Cooperation) were adopted by the heads of State of South Asian countries during the SAARC Summit in Colombo in 1991 4. (b) Provided an input into the Islamabad Summit Declaration, January 2004, as a member of the South Asia Center for Policy Studies. 5 3. Pro Poor Growth in Pakistan Contributed to the conceptual and empirical basis of integrating poverty reduction into economic growth policy. 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 (i) Ponna Wignaraja, Akmal Hussain, Harsh Sethi and Ganeshan Wignaraja, Participatory Development: Learning from South Asia, United Nations University Press, Oxford University, 1991. (ii) Akmal Hussain, Poverty Alleviation in Pakistan, Vanguard Books, Lahore, 1994. Pages 23 to 26. Punjab Rural Support Programme: The First Four Months, Report by Dr. Akmal Hussain, Honourary CEO, submitted to the Board of Directors in 1998. (i) Ponna Wignaraja and Akmal Hussain (eds.), The Challenge in South Asia: Development, Democracy and Regional Cooperation, The United Nations University, Tokyo and Oxford University Press, 1989. (ii) Akmal Hussain, Nation Building and Regional Cooperation in South Asia, Lahore, 1984. (iii) Akmal Hussain, Constraints and Imperatives of Regional Cooperation in South Asia, An Outline of Issues. (iv) Akmal Hussain, Sustainable Development and Regional Cooperation, Note for the OSLO Conference on Peace Development and Democracy, Peace Research Institute, OSLO, 1 st to 5 th June 1989. SAARC: Moving Towards Core Areas of Cooperation, Report of the Independent Group on South Asian Cooperation (IGSAC), 1991. Professor Rehman Sobhan, Dr. Akmal Hussain and Syed Babar Ali, SACEPS Policy Proposals for the SAARC Summit, Islamabad, SACEPS, December 26, 2003. (i) Akmal Hussain, A Medium Term Strategy of Economic Revival, submitted to the Economic Advisory Board and later published in the Daily Dawn, November 25-26, 1999. (ii) Akmal Hussain, A Policy for Pro-Poor Growth, in UNDP-PIDE Proceedings of the Pro-Poor Growth Policies Symposium, 17 th March 2003, Islamabad. 3
4. Social Polarization in Agrarian Structure in Pakistan Identified the phenomenon of land resumption and social polarization in Pakistan in the context of the Green Revolution, provided empirical evidence and analysis of the phenomenon. 7. RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS (See Attached List) He has authored three books on economic policy and co-authored/contributed chapters to fourteen other books, 29 publications in academic journals and contributed over 100 newspaper articles on economic and social issues; has also undertaken research for international agencies, including the World Bank, United Nations University, ILO/ARTEP, Swiss Development Corporation, Dutch Government, CIDA and the UNDP. He has presented papers as a panellist at international conferences around the world, including Harvard University, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Peace Research Institute, Oslo, World Conference on Development Rome, The United Nations, Geneva, Wilton Park at Sussex and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo. He is listed in several world biographical reference books, including the Marquis WHO S WHO, and has been interviewed by PTV, BBC, Doordarshan, ABC and Voice of Germany. 7 1. Akmal Hussain, Impact of Agricultural Growth on Changes in the Agrarian Structure of Pakistan with Special Reference to the Punjab Province. D. Phil Thesis, University of Sussex, 1980. 2. Akmal Hussain, Pakistan: Land Reforms Reconsidered, in Hamza Alavi and John Harriss (ed.), South Asia, Macmillan, London, 1989. 4
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS I. BOOKS AUTHORED/CO-AUTHORED BY DR. AKMAL HUSSAIN 1. Strategic Issues in Pakistan's Economic Policy, Progressive Publishers, July 1988. 2. Poverty Alleviation in Pakistan, published by Vanguard Books Private Limited, Lahore, 1994. 3. Pakistan National Human Development Report 2003, UNDP, Oxford University Press Karachi, 2003. 4. The Challenge in South Asia: Development, Democracy and Regional Cooperation, edited by Ponna Wignaraja and Akmal Hussain, Sage Publications, 1989. Also republished by Oxford University Press, December 1989. 5. Participatory Development: Learning from South Asia Edited By: Ponna Wignaraja, Akmal Hussain, Harsh Sethi and Ganeshan Wignaraja, Oxford University Press, 1991. 6. Pakistan, Problems of Governance by Mushahid Hussain and Akmal Hussain, published under the auspices of Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, Konark Publishers Private Limited, Delhi, India and Vanguard Books Private Limited, Lahore, 1993. II. CHAPTERS/ARTICLES CONTRIBUTED BY DR. AKMAL HUSSAIN TO THE FOLLOWING BOOKS/JOURNALS. 1. Title of Chapter: Pakistan: The Crisis of the State Book titled: Islam, Politics and the State, The Pakistan Experience, Edited by Asghar Khan, Zed Press, London 1985. 5
2. Title of Chapter: Poverty, Growth and Governance in South Asia Book titled: Problems of Governance in South Asia, Edited by V.A. Pai Panandiker, Konark Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2000 3. Title of Chapter: Pakistan: Land Reforms Reconsidered Book titled: Sociology of Developing Societies South Asia, Edited by Hamza Alavi and John Harris, Macmillan, London 1989. 4. Title of Chapter: The Dynamics of Power: Military, Bureaucracy and the People Book titled: Internal Conflicts in South Asia, Edited by K Rupasinghe and Khawar Mumtaz, SAGE Publications, London 1995. 5. Title of Chapter: Impact of Security on Trade and Development: Inter-Relations between India and Pakistan Book titled: Cooperative Policies for Preventing and Controlling the Spread of Missiles and Nuclear Weapons, A publication of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, 1996, Printed in Germany. 6
6. Title of Chapter: Terrorism, Development and Democracy: The Case of Pakistan Book titled: Terrorism in South Asia: Impact on Development and Democratic Process, Edited by Sridhar K. Khatri and Gert W. Kueck, Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo and Konard Adenauer Foundation, New Delhi, Shipra Publications, India, 2003. 7. Title of Chapter: Karachi Riots of December 1986: Crisis of State and Civil Society in Pakistan Book titled: Mirrors of Violence: Communities, Riots and Survivors in South Asia, Edited by Veena Das, Delhi Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York 1990. 8. Title of Chapter: Lessons for Macro-Micro Policy Chapter Jointly written by Akmal Hussain, Susil Sirivardana and Ponna Wignaraja Book titled: Pro-Poor Growth and Governance in South Asia: Decentralization and Participatory Development, Edited by Ponna Wignaraja and Susil Sirivardana, SAGE Publications, New Delhi and London 2004 9. Title of Chapter: A Policy for Pro Poor Growth Book titled: Towards Pro-Poor Growth Policies in Pakistan, UNDP-PIDE Proceedings of the Pro-Poor Growth Policies Symposium, 17 th March 2003, Islamabad. 7
10. Title of Chapter: Institutions, Economic Structure and Poverty in Pakistan Journal titled: South Asia Economic Journal (Journal of the Institute of Policy Studies, Sri Lanka),Volume 5, Number 1, January-June 2004. Sage Publications, New Delhi and London 2004. 11. Article titled: Imperialism Book titled: Encyclopedia of Capitalism Edited by: Syed Bashir Hussain, General Editor. Facts On File, Inc. New York, 2004. 12. Title of Chapter: Participatory Development Praxis in Pakistan s Punjab: A Case Study Book titled: Readings on Pro Poor Praxis/Development through Social Mobilization in South Asia (Vol. II) Edited by: P. Wignaraja et.al. SAGE Publications (Forthcoming). 13. Title of Chapter: Poverty, Power and Local Government in Pakistan Chapter jointly authored with Mr. Savail Hussain Book titled: Readings on Pro Poor Praxis/Development through Social Mobilization in South Asia (Vol. II) Edited by: P. Wignaraja et.al. SAGE Publications. (Forthcoming). 8
14. Articles titled: (i) Agrarian Structure and Social Change (ii) Land Reforms (iii) The Green Revolution (iv) A Perspective on Pakistan s Economic History: Growth, Economic Structure and Governance Book titled: Encyclopedia on: Oxford Companion to Pakistani History. Oxford University Press, Karachi (Forthcoming) 15. Title of Chapter: Human Security, Economic Development and the Peace Process in South Asia Book Titled: Non-Traditional and Human Security in South Asia, Edited by: Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad, PanGraphics (Pvt) Ltd, Islamabad, 2007. III. RESEARCH REPORTS FOR THE FOLLOWING NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS National 1. National Development Finance Corporation, Pakistan. 2. Ministry of Environment and Urban Affairs, Pakistan. 3. Planning Commission, Pakistan. 4. Government of the N.W.F.P. International 1. International Labour Organization (ILO) 2. Swiss Development Corporation. 3. Government of the Netherlands and Small Industries Corporation, Government of Pakistan. 4. CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency). 5. World Bank 6. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 9