Ishrat Husain

He was born at Agra, British India, in 1941; the Arabic article gives Allahabad as the birthplace, against the English article and Wikidata, which agree on Agra. His family relocated from Agra to Karachi in 1947 at Partition. He was educated at Karachi and at the Government College Hyderabad, took a degree in zoology and chemistry and then chemistry at the University of Sindh, and developed his interest in development economics abroad: an MA in development economics at Williams College in 1972 and a PhD at Boston University in 1978. ^{1 2 3}

He entered the civil service in 1964, with postings in Sindh and in Chittagong in then East Pakistan, and rose in the Finance Division before joining the World Bank in the late 1970s. Over some two decades there he served as country economist for Liberia, World Bank representative to Nigeria, head of the Debt and International Finance Division, chief economist for Africa and then for Asia–Pacific, and director for the Central Asian republics. In 1999 he returned to Pakistan as governor of the State Bank, serving until December 2005. As dean of IBA from 2008 to 2016 he expanded it from a business school into an interdisciplinary university; he also chairs IBA's Centre for Excellence in Islamic Finance, whose purpose is the dissemination of knowledge of Islamic finance, and in 2016 he joined the Woodrow Wilson Center as a resident policy fellow. ^{1 4}

His faith is recorded as unknown. No article in any language says anything about his personal religion; Wikidata's only value is Islam in general terms, which names no school. His chairmanship of a centre for the study of Islamic finance is professional work concerning a subject, and is not evidence of personal affiliation. ^{1 3}

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