KARACHI: The finance ministry Friday evening issued the notification for the appointment of Shamsul Hasan as State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP) deputy governor.
Shamsul Hasan has over 33 years of vast experience in local and international banks and has a proven track record of over 20 years in senior management. He was working as a non-executive director on the board of Silk Bank since November 2012, and was re-elected as an independent director by the shareholders of the bank in August 2014 and has held this position since then.
He is also the chairman of the risk committee of the board.
Hasan is a senior investment and corporate banker. Prior to his joining the bank, he was the managing director and chief executive officer of Pakistan-Kuwait Investment Company (Pvt.) Ltd., a joint venture of governments of Pakistan and Kuwait, from November 2008 until August 2011.
He has also worked as the country head of corporate and investment banking group of the then Saudi Pak Commercial Bank Limited.
A graduate of Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul, Hasan has extensive banking training and has attended various international management development programmes conducted by France’s INSEAD, National University of Singapore, Institute of Islamic Banking, London and Euro Money, London.
SBP official says the notification has been received and the bank will issue press release till Tuesday, or on his joining the post of deputy governor at the bank.
