KARACHI: Zakir Mahmood, former president of the Habib Bank Limited, has been appointed as chairman of the Aga Khan University’s board of trustees by the university’s chancellor, the Aga Khan.

In his message to the trustees of the university, the Aga Khan said that Mr Mahmood would bring to the chair his profound experience in senior leadership roles, his extensive acumen in international institutional development and his thorough understanding of governance structures.

Mr Mahmood succeeds the distinguished Dr Haile Debas, former chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco. He received his BE Engineering from NED University in Karachi and MBA and MS Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2005, the government honoured Mr Mahmood with Sitara-e-Imtiaz Award.

Published in Dawn, December 16th, 2021