Harvard Club of Pakistan is organizing Harvard alumni dinner with Prof. Asim Khwaja from Harvard Kennedy School and Prof. Shawn Cole from Harvard Business School as guests of honour. Details are given below:

Date: Monday July 17th, 2017
Time: 7pm
Venue: Attendees will be informed individually

Please confirm your attendance by sending in your name, graduation year and the name of Harvard school you attended at exec.assist@fast-cables.com by Friday July 14th, 2016. Kindly RSVP at the given email address even if you have confirmed on facebook event page as the venue will be decided based on the number of confirmations.

Asim Khwaja
Asim Ijaz Khwaja is the Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development Professor of International Finance and Development at the Harvard Kennedy School, Co-Director of Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD), and co-founder of the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP). His areas of interest include economic development, finance, education, political economy, institutions, and contract theory/mechanism design. His research combines extensive fieldwork, rigorous empirical analysis, and microeconomic theory to answer questions that are motivated by and engage with policy. He has been published in leading economics journals, such as the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and has received coverage in numerous media outlets, such as The Economist, The New York Times, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, Al-Jazeera,BBC, and  CNN.

Shawn Cole
Shawn Cole is a professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches and conducts research on financial services, social enterprise, and impact investing. He has worked in China, India, Indonesia, South Africa, and Vietnam. He is an affiliate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development. He is on the board of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab, as the co-chair for research. Before joining the Harvard Business School, Professor Cole worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the economic research department. He has served on the Boston Federal Reserve's Community Development Research Advisory Council, served as an external advisor to the Gates Foundation, and was the chair of the endowment management committee of the Telluride Association, a non-profit educational organization.

Best,
Saadia Qayyum
Secretary HCP
2016-17