Beyond “BRIC” >> Investing in the Pakistani Emerging Market

A discussion at Harvard Business School with two titans of Pakistani industry, Syed Babar Ali and Hussain Dawood. Pakistan is the world’s 6^th largest country and a critical emerging market, having steadily grown GDP and foreign direct investment over the past 7 years. The discussion will address the opportunities and challenges facing business investment in emerging markets and will be moderated by HBS Professors Louis Wells and Karim Lakhani as well as Ken Morse, Managing Director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center.

Event Details:

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Harvard Business School

Hawes 201 (http://www.hbs.edu/about/visit.html)

Agenda:

5:00 to 6:30pm >> Moderated Discussion and Q&A

6:30 to 7:15pm >> Reception

Event is open to the public. Please RSVP here.

Mr. Syed Babar Ali is the founder of Pakistan’s largest paper and board mill, Packages Limited, and the country’s largest food processing company, Nestle Pakistan Ltd. He serves on the Board of Directors of the local subsidiaries/affiliates of Siemens, Nestle, and Coca Cola. Mr. Babar Ali has served as Pakistan’s Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs & Planning and has won several awards and accolades from the Government of Sweden, the Netherlands and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Mr. Babar Ali attended the 65^th Advanced Management Program (AMP) at Harvard Business School 1973.

Mr. Hussain Dawood heads one of Pakistan’s largest business conglomerates with interests in Fertilizers, Chemicals, Energy, Chemical Terminal, Gas Distribution and Transmission, Foods, IT, Textiles, Insurance and Brokerage. He is the Chairman of Engro Chemicals, Dawood Hercules, The Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund and on the Board of Directors of Sui Northern Gas Pipelines and Shell Pakistan. He is also is a former Director of the State Bank of Pakistan and Advisor to the Ministry of Commerce. Mr. Dawood was also the first Pakistani member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and is a Global Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE).

Mr. Dawood holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Metallurgy from Sheffield University, UK.