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Arabian Sea to Mediterranean Shores:
Transitioning Business in the 21st Century
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Keynote Speaker:
Shahid Javed Burki
Chief Executive Officer of EMP-FA
Shahid Javed Burki is the Chief Executive Officer of EMP Financial Advisors, LLC. Prior to his present position, Mr. Burki spent 25 years at the World Bank, where he served from 1994-1999 as Vice President of the Latin America and Caribbean region. In his previous World Bank post, Director for China in the East Asia and Pacific region for the period 1987-1993, Mr. Burki designed and implemented the World Bank's lending program in China.
Mr. Burki joined the World Bank in 1974 to serve as Senior Economist in the Bank's Policy Planning Division. He was promoted to Division Chief of the Policy Planning and Program Review Department in 1976. In 1981 Mr. Burki became Senior Economist and Policy Advisor in the Office of the Vice President of External Relations; in 1983 he became Director of the International Relations Department of that vice-presidency. He served there until 1987, when he was appointed Director for China and Mongolia. In August 1993, he advised Moeen Qureshi, the caretaker Prime Minister, and took an active part in developing the reform program announced on August 19. In November 1996 he was invited by President Farooq Leghari to serve as Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Affairs in the caretaker cabinet that took office after the dismissal of the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Mr. Burki studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and at Harvard University as a Masons Fellow. He holds graduate degrees in economics and physics. Early in his career Mr. Burki held several senior posts in the government of Pakistan, including Chief Economist in West Pakistan. After his government service, and before entering the World Bank, he spent two years as Senior Fellow at Harvard University's Development Advisory Service.
Mr. Burki has written several books on developmental issues: A Study of Chinese Communes, Harvard University Press, 1969; First Things First, Oxford University Press, 1981, co-authored with Paul Streeten and others. He has written several books and articles on Pakistan including: Pakistan: Development Choices for the Future, Oxford University Press, 1986; Pakistan: Continuing Search for Nationhood, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1991; Pakistan: Fifty Years of Nationhood, Westview Press, 1999; and Pakistan: A Historical Dictionary, Scarecrow Press, London, 1999. Mr. Burki, first with Sebastian Edwards, former Chief Economist of the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank, and then with Guillermo Perry, present Chief Economist, has published five studies on the economic environment in Latin America and the Caribbean. They are: (1) Latin America After Mexico: Quickening the Pace; (2) Dismantling the Populist State: The Unfinished Revolutionin Latin America and the Caribbean; (3) The Long March: A Reform Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean in the Next Decade; (4) Beyond the Washington Consensus, and (5) Beyond the Center: Decentralization and Economic Reform. During his tenure as Vice President Latin America and the Caribbean, Mr. Burki was invited to speak at a number of seminars and conferences. The World Bank published a collection of his speeches in June 1999 under the title of Changing Perceptions and Altered Reality: Emerging Economies in the 1990s.
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