Rizwan Ahmed (civil servant)

Rizwan Ahmed (رضوان احمد) is the current Member of Sindh Public Service Commission and a former grade 22 officer of the Pakistan Administrative Service who served at the highest civil service office of Federal Secretary. He did his two-year Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University and holds the rare distinction of having served as the chief executive of four state-owned organisations under the Government of Pakistan, the most by any individual in history at the federal level.

He first came to the fore when he saved more than PKR 7 billion of the national exchequer through a sweeping anti-corruption drive and commodity financing operation during his tenure as Chairman of the Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP).

Rizwan held the high profile portfolio of Maritime Secretary of Pakistan for a period of almost three years, during which he also became the first ever Pakistani to be appointed as Chairman of INFOFISH, an intergovernmental organisation setup by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation.

He is considered to be one of the most successful Chairman of the Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC), having extensively expanded the national fleet during his tenure which led to PNSC posting its highest ever profit of PKR 30 billion. He remains the only individual to have served twice as Chairman & CEO of PNSC.

He is a Certified Director from the Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance and remained a Teaching Fellow for Financial Management at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was promoted to the highest bureaucratic rank of grade 22 in 2017.

Family
Rizwan is the son of Jamil Ahmed, the former twice-elected and longest-serving Mayor of Hyderabad; and is the son-in-law of former FSC Chief Justice Haziqul Khairi.

Career
Rizwan Ahmed is currently serving as Member Sindh Public Service Commission, in office since 2022. He joined the Pakistan Administrative Service in January 1988 and retired from active civil service in December 2021 as one of the country's senior-most grade 22 officers. He is the only officer in the history of federal bureaucracy to have served as chief executive of four state-owned organisations under the Government of Pakistan.

He previously served in the Government of Pakistan as Federal Secretary for Maritime Affairs, Chairman of Trading Corporation of Pakistan, twice as Chairman of Pakistan National Shipping Corporation, Managing Director of Pakistan Security Printing Corporation, Managing Director of ENAR Petrotech, Additional Secretary Establishment Division and Additional Secretary Cabinet Division.

Before joining the federal government, Rizwan served at the provincial level as Health Secretary of Sindh, Secretary General Administration (SGA&CD Sindh), Secretary to Governor Sindh, Additional Home Secretary Sindh and as Deputy Commissioner of Hyderabad.

During the early stages of his career, he served as Director Local Government Bahawalpur Division and Assistant Commissioner of Rahim Yar Khan and Mianwali.