KARACHI: Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) has formed a Policy & Research Board comprising of top-level economic, business, trade, and industry experts.
The Executive Committee FPCCI approved the proposal unanimously during April 14 during a meeting chaired by FPCCCI President Mian Nasser Hyatt Maggo.
The Policy & Research Board is mandated to provide research-based expert input for policy advice and advocacy, formalise business community’s inputs on international trade, tariff and taxation policies, macroeconomic issues, regulatory laws, access to finance and ease of doing business initiatives related to various government ministries and institutions.
The board will also provide access to data and information to trade organisations throughout the country to help their members take informed business decisions and identify opportunities. To achieve such objectives, the board will also restructure and upgrade the policy and research facilities at FPCCI.
FPCCI has appointed Mr Mohammad Younus Dagha, former Federal Secretary for Water and Power, Commerce and Finance as Chairman of the Policy & Research Board.
Dagha is one of Pakistan’s most accomplished and celebrated civil servants and commands astounding grip over major aspects of the economy and its important sectors. President FPCCI has posed his absolute confidence in him to revolutionize the policy and research functions at FPCCI.
President FPCCI Mian Nasser Hyatt Maggo as Patron and Vice President and Ather Sultan Chawla as Coordinator will also sit on the board. Other board members include Mahmood Nawaz Shah, Abdul Qadir Memon, Sheikh Imran-ul-Haque, Agha Jan Akhtar, Ismail Suttar, Sultan Chawla, Mian Anjum Nisar, and Akram Wali Muhammad.
