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MOIN QAZI

Development Finance Professional,Author, Academic Researcher and Communication Expert with expertise in the areas of development finance, women empowerment and rural development. He has doctorates in Economics and English. He has spent a major part of his three decade career in State Bank of India, India’s largest commercial bank, as a grassroots field officer, program manager, policy maker and researcher in development finance. He has played a key role in empowerment of women and education of girl children in rural areas. He has also been actively associated with affordable housing programmes for the rural poor. An accomplished poet, he received Hon D Litt at the World Congress of Poets held at Istanbul in 1989. He was Editor of State Bank of India’s House Magazine Elephanta for five years .He was awarded the Best Editor Award for Corporate House Magazines by the Association of Business Communicators of India for three consecutive years. He was also a Visiting Fellow at the University of Manchester. He was a representative of commercial banks on the Expert Committee which collaborated with the University of  Manchester, International Fund for Agricultural Development, Rome, Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of Malaysia and Grameen Bank, Bangladesh for designing microfinance driven programs for poverty alleviation in underdeveloped and developing countries. .He served as Chancellor’s nominee on Nagpur University’s Selection Committee for PhD Examiners.

Publications

He has contributed articles to Indian and foreign publications including The Times of India, Statesman, Indian Express, The Economic Times, Financial Express, The Hindustan Times, Business Standard, The Hindu, Mainstream, Asian Age, Far Eastern Economic Review and Asiaweek (Hong Kong) Daily Sabah (Turkey), Moroccan Times, Chicago Monitor, Sudan Vision and Times of Malta .He has authored several   books on religion, rural finance, culture and handicrafts. His books include: A Journey into Soulscape, Woven Wonders of the Deccan, Muhammad: the Prophet for Eternity, Village Diary of a Heretic Banker, The Mission of Prophet Muhammad, Women in Isla,; Exploring New Paradigms and Muhammad: Man and Prophet and Umar Al Farooq: Man and Caliph .An award winning poet he has contributed to Indian Pen, The Independent, The Illustrated Weekly of India, Kavya Bharati, The Muse etc. His poems have also been set to music by Hollywood companies. Awards

Vocational Excellence Award for Community Service from the Rotary Foundation; Michael Madhusudan Dutt Poetry Award; World Politics Essay Gold Medal; C.F. Andrews Centenary Essay Gold Medal; Gandhi Centenary Essay Gold Medal; Institution of Engineers (India) Gold Medal For Excellence In Essay Writing; Dr. Ambedkar Fellowship from  Dalit Sahitya Academy; Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavna Award; Bharat Gaurav Award; Nirmal Rattan Award; Frank Moraes Lifetime Achievement Award.