Syed Jafar Raza is a finance professional, with over 2 decades of experience in the areas of Trade Finance, Corporate Relationship Management, Investment and Transaction Banking.

He holds a Master’s degree in Commerce and Business Administration from University of Karachi and Institute of Business Administration, respectively.

He is currently heading Investment, International and Transaction Banking Group at JS Bank.

He held various senior management roles with Bank Al-Habib and Askari Bank Limited where  he also served as nominee director of the latter for its brokerage subsidiary.

Mr. Sohail is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Pakistan. During his career, he has served in various leadership roles with local and multinational institutes including Dawood Family Takaful, Burj Bank and Deloitte. He is currently serving as Chief Financial Officer at BankIslami Pakistan Limited. He has also served in the capacity of non-executive director on the Boards of BIPL Securities Limited, BankIslami Modaraba Investments Limited and Shakarganj Food Products Limited.

Mr. Sohail has an extensive Islamic Banking exposure. In addition to his superior knowledge of finance and accounting, he also has considerable knowledge and strength in the areas of Business Process Re-engineering, Internal Controls, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategic Planning Process, Corporate Affairs and Information Technology.

Rabiya Javeri Agha has been one of senior most bureaucrats  in the Government of Pakistan and has spent 37 years in public service. She was the first female  President  of the Pakistan Administrative Service Association, the largest federal association of civil ser vants in the country. She is a graduate from Mount Holyoke College, USA and the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. Rabiya was conferred an honorary Doctorate in Law from her alma mater MHC for her work on women and vulnerable groups.

As Secretary, Ministry of Human Rights, she was instrumental in the drafting of 18 human rights – based legislations; including the very progressive Transgender Act 2018. Ms. Javeri also helped draft Pakistan’s first and only Child Marriage Restraint Act, whic h outlawed the practice of early age marriages for young girls in Sindh.

She has recently taken charge as Chairperson National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR), and was unanimously selected by all three political parties of the Parliamentary committee. Under her leadership NCHR held nation-wide consultations to develop a 3 -year strategic plan. The strategic plan identifies five core functions of the Commission: Complaint Redressal, Legal Watchdog, Knowledge Production, Awareness/Advocacy and Policy Advis or.

In the last ten months, the Chairperson has spearheaded the work on the core functions. The achievements include the enactment of Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention and Punishment) Act, adoption of the enforced disappearances bill and the bill to decr iminalize suicide. In addition, NCHR’s report on Minority rights has been applauded in the UK’s House  of Lords while  the President of Pakistan has launched an action plan on mental health based on the NCHR’s Mental Health report. The Commission has resolved 2613 complaints of Human Rights abuses across the country and taken 116 suo-moto actions on Human Right violations.

She has also actively advocated and raised awareness on various  Human  Rights issues ranging from juvenile justice to prison reforms, journalist protection and minority  rights.  The credibility of the Commission has been amplified under her guidance with the government  and judiciary seeking the Commission’s help in critical inquiries.