Abid Qaiyum Suleri

Biography

Dr Abid Qaiyum Suleri is the Executive Director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI). He serves on leading international and national policy forums and has represented Pakistan in numerous official and civil society delegations worldwide. He sits on the Advisory Council of the Asian Development Bank Institute; chairs the Board of Directors of the National Disaster Risk Management Fund (NDRMF) and serves on the Pakistan Climate Change Council, and the Board of Governors of the National School of Public Policy. In 2024, he worked with UNFCCC COP29 President as a member of the International Advisory Committee of COP29. Previously, he served three terms (2013–2022) on the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council/National Economic Advisory Council, two terms (2013–2022) on the National Advisory Council of the Planning Commission of Pakistan, and as Coordinator of the Prime Minister’s Agriculture Transformation Plan (2021–2022). He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), Dr Suleri has represented Pakistan in major international platforms and multilateral conferences. A sought-after speaker, he regularly delivers lectures on sustainable development to career civil servants, military officers, and parliamentarians. An accomplished writer, he contributes to academic journals and mainstream media. He is Editor-in-Chief of SDPI’s peer-reviewed Journal and Series Editor of Springer’s South Asia Economic and Policy Studies. Dr Suleri holds a PhD in Food Security from the University of Greenwich, UK.