Board of Directors

Mr. Muhammad Yahya Akhunzada has been a member of the Board of Directors since January 1, 2025. He is the Joint Secretary, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Government of Pakistan, responsible for development and general portfolio management of multilateral development banks and bilateral partners, as well as external debt management. A career civil servant, he has been appointed to various positions over his 20-year career with the Government of Pakistan and provincial governments of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit Baltistan. His responsibilities span across administrative, financial, judicial, development portfolio management, general administration and project management, and supervisory roles in various fields, including finance, health, education and local government. He has served as head of both district and divisional administrations and at both Provincial and Federal Secretariats. He also served as Secretary Finance, Gilgit-Baltistan, responsible for the preparation of the annual budget, management of financial resource and formulation of financial policies, resource mobilization, revenue generation and expenditure management. He has also remained on the Board of Governors of the Islamic Development Bank.  

Mr. Akhunzada is an Erasmus scholar, and has a Joint European master’s degree in Comparative Local Development from the University of Trento, Italy; University of Regensburg, Germany; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and University of Budapest, Hungary; as well as a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the NWFP-University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan and a bachelor’s degree in law and Pushto from the University of Peshawar, Pakistan.