Naheed Memon

CEO

Naheed has had a long and illustrious career spanning public service and private sector. Naheed is currently a member of the Prime Minister of Pakistan’s Committee on Coal Development, a part of the Government of Pakistan’s Ministry of Energy (Petroleum Division), which is focussed on the potential role for indigenous coal in Pakistan’s development of the mining industry. She plays a proactive role in the development of this sector in Pakistan. Naheed has also served as the Chairman of the Sindh Board of Investment, Government of Sindh, for a number of years. In this position which was that of a provincial minister, she played a pivotal role in setting up SEZs, mobilising CPEC projects in multiple sectors, coordinating closely between Chinese and Pakistani counterparts, arranging FDI in multiple sectors in the province, facilitating investment in innovation, and improving the World Bank’s Doing Business Ranking as the province’s focal person.

Naheed is a Director in her family-owned conglomerate, the Kings Group of Industries, Pakistan, and has overseen its extensive growth and diversification. She was previously the founder CEO of Advicia Consulting Limited, a consulting practice, she set up in London servicing international trade bodies, as well as large industrial clients in the oil and gas sector. Naheed has also worked in Private Banking for Merrill Lynch, managing a multimillion book for clients in the MENA region. She has also been the CEO of Manzil Pakistan, a public policy think tank in Karachi working in a cross section of sectors, advocating for economic growth through informed policy.

Naheed is also an adjunct faculty of Economics and Strategy at Pakistan s largest public sector business school, IBA, Karachi. She also sits as an independent director on the board of public sector companies in Pakistan.