USAID-CSF Seminar to Encourage Female Input in Pakistani EconomyCategory: Women
Article added by: Amir Jahangir
The United States Agency for International Development funded Competitiveness Support Fund (CSF) held a seminar here to encourage greater female participation in the Pakistani economy by involving students of the Lahore College for Women University in the 2008 World Economic Forum (WEF) Executive Opinion Survey.
"This initiative promotes competitiveness as a research topic and forges linkages between academia and the business,” said Professor Riffat Saqlain, Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at the Lahore College for Women University. "More importantly, it bridges business’ gender gap by including Pakistani female students in the process.”
As a partner institution of the World Economic Forum (WEF), CSF is carrying out the 2008 Executive Opinion Survey to rank Pakistan’s economy for the WEF Global Competitiveness Report 2008-2009. The survey will cover top-level business executives operating in Pakistan to capture their opinion on local business environment.
The CSF is a $11.8 million joint initiative of USAID and the Ministry of Finance. The program will be interacting with other leading economic, business and journalism schools across Pakistan to create a network of more than 100 students and faculty members to carry out the Executive Opinion Survey from January to May 2008. This initiative also creates competitiveness clubs and opportunities for academia to initiate research papers on competitiveness issues.
Other speakers of the seminar included Chairman FPCCI Standing Committee on Competitiveness, Rehmat Ullah Javed; Chairperson Women Entrepreneur Committee FPCCI, Sheila Malik; and Communications Manager CSF, Amir Jahangir.
Support for CSF is part of the $1.5 billion in aid that the U.S. Government is providing, through USAID, to Pakistan over five years to improve economic growth, education, health, and governance and to reconstruct areas affected by the October 2005 earthquake.
Posted By: Amir Jahangir
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| About the Author: |
| Amir Jahangir is a strategic communication and media professional with over 15 years of experience with leading communications and media organizations. He is currently associated with the Competitiveness Support Fund, as a consultant on media and communication. He is also working on a medium- to long-term media development strategy for Pakistan as the incharge for the Innovation Journalism Program for Pakistan, a program in collaboration with the Stanford University on Innovation Journalism. He is the strategic communication consultant to various other initiatives on economic and strategic development for competitiveness and innovation.
Amir is also the Founder and Chief Strategy Officer for Mishal (Pvt.) Limited. Mishal was launched to fulfill the need for media consultancy in Pakistan, keeping in view various industry developments requiring strategic media communication including content strategy, marketing, human resource development and technical needs of the media industry.
Most recently, he was on the forefront of the media industry in Pakistan as the Chief Executive Officer of Television Business Production Limited, the leading production company for business and economic news programs in the country. He was also responsible for the strategic planning, content management and operations management, as the CEO and board member of the Vision Network Television Limited, which has recently launched the first internationally branded business and economic news channel CNBC Pakistan. Amir has been associated with various research and consultancy firms for research and analysis on various sectors including telecom, media, information communication technology and other socio-economic issues.
On the personal front, Amir has been married for over four years and resides in central Islamabad. While his work involves extensive traveling, which has now become his passion; he also makes time for classical music, poetry and books. |
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