Ijaz Nabi is Country Director (Pakistan) at the International Growth Centre – hosted jointly by the London School of Economics and Oxford University, and a non-resident Fellow at the Centre for Global Development, Washington DC.
He previously worked at the World Bank in Washington for 22 years, on Mexico, Korea, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Thailand (leading the World Bank team during the East Asian financial crisis). He was also Manager, Economic Policy, for the South Asia region, from 2002-2008. Dr. Nabi has also held the position of Advisor (Economic Affairs) to Chief Minister Punjab and been a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the State Bank of Pakistan
He teaches Economic Policy at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), and has published extensively on economic growth, investment and finance, industrialization, international trade and labour markets in developing countries. He has a BA from Government College Lahore, B.Sc. Honors from London School of Economics and a PhD from Warwick University, UK.