Director & Anchor Dunya Today” at Dunya TV
Dr. Moeed Pirzada is the Director World Affairs and hosts “Dunya Today” at Dunya TV.Dr. Moeed Pirzada (Director & Anchor World Today – Ptv-Prime)
EDUCATION & TRAINING
School of International & Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York; Masters International Affairs, 2001-2; Concentration: International Economic Policy.
London School of Economics, UK: MSc. Regulation; Department of Law; 2002-03, Research Analysis of the Law and Politics of Economic, Network, Media & Internet Regulation.
University of Punjab, Pakistan; MBBS; 1983-89.
London School Of Economics: New Europe in World Economy; EU Economic Integration;1999.
Directorate of Training and Research, Pakistan: Constitutional Law, Policy & Procedure 1991-2.
Civil Services Academy, Pakistan: Economics, Political Science & Regional Studies 1990-91.
Media achievements
Mr. Pirzada recently moderated the famous interaction of US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton with young Pakistani civil society activists and entrepreneurs on 21 October 2011, in Islamabad’s Serena Hotel where a student called Ms. Clinton as ‘mother in law of all Pakistanis’. Pirzada had also moderated Clinton’s first controversial interaction with TV anchors in October 2009 when Clinton had remarked that if Pakistanis do not want the Kerry Lugar Bill aid then they should boldly reject it. As TV journalist he has interviewed leading Pakistani and international decision makers including former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, British Prime Minister David Cameron, President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, AfPak point man Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, Admiral Mike Mullen and George Galloway.He also covered the strategic dialogue between US and Pakistan as well as several talks between India and Pakistan including the famous meeting of former President Pervez Musharraf with Indian Prime minister Manmohan Singh at the Non-Aligned Summit in Havana, in 2006. In Sept. 2009, the then US Ambassador to Pakistan, Anne W. Patterson, appeared in his program and denied the existence of US Contractors “Black Water” in Pakistan; a claim that was proved untrue when Raymond Davis was arrested in Lahore in January 2011.
Columnist
Dr. Pirzada has been a columnist for major Pakistani publications like the Karachi based, The Dawn, and The News; his policy papers have appeared in the Journal of Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI); has been invited to international conferences, seminars and symposia across the US, UK, South Korea, Turkmenistan and Pakistan.
International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS)
In UK he has been a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), and has worked as external consultant with Commonwealth Business Council, and India & Pakistan Relations Study Group (INPAREL);
BBC
He has assisted BBC with its documentaries on South Asia and was selected by Ford Foundation and Foreign & Commonwealth Office for the under forty leadership of South Asia at “Third South Asia Forum” at Wilton Park.(2003).
Central Superior Services (CSS)
In Pakistan he worked with Central Superior Services (CSS) and was awarded for meritorious services by the Federal government in 1998.
Professional Experiences (Over view)
Civil Services of Pakistan, 1990-2001
Selected for the Central Superior Services, after a distinct position in the nation wide competitive exams in 1989; and worked in different areas of public policy at increasing levels of responsibility. My job involved: assisting the top management in regional centers and federal capital with the overall process of strategic planning and decision-making: policy input papers; political analysis; economic assessments and forecasting; trade policy formulation; tax policy implementation; organizing conferences, seminar and expert panels; interacting with chambers of commerce and trade, regulatory bodies, and public Accounts Committee; administering first stage quasi-judicial proceedings and representing the government in courts and federal tribunals on technical matters related to policy and international commitments. Later selected by British Foreign & Commonwealth Office as a Britannia Chevening Scholar-a scheme reserved for potential leaders in government and industry.
Research & Consulting Assignments:
Commonwealth Business Council: As external consultant researched and wrote the chapter on Pakistan in Commonwealth Business Council FDI report, “Insight 2003; Foreign Direct Investment Report (London: 2003) Ed. Richard Synge”. Publication is to assist global business and governments with investment decisions.
United Nations Development Program: External consultant, with the core team that brought out UNDP’s major publication “Making Global Trade work for People” (Earthscan; London, Virginia, 2003); Conducted seminars with other UN agencies, academics and civil society NGO’s; Researched and wrote chapters on Antidumping and Trade Facilitation for this UNDP publication and contributed to other chapters.
World Economic Forum (Davos Group): External Consultant from Columbia University to World Economic Forum, Davos Group, during its annual conference in New York, Jan-Feb 2002.
India and Pakistan Relations Study Group, Leicester University (INPAREL):
As external Consultant assisted with the conferences and seminars:
University College London, Jan 2003;
Kings College March 2003;
Georgetown University October 2003 and with the conference at International Institute of Strategic Studies in March 2004.
Investment Bank Goldman Sachs:
Consulting Assignment on a joint workshop between School of International Affairs and investment Bank Goldman Sachs on institutional problems in West African Oil & gas industry. (Jan-May 2002) Focus:
Nigeria, Angola, Ivory Coast and Ghana.
Assisting the ‘Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies’ Honolulu, with the planned conference, Media, terrorism and the battle of ideas’ (scheduled: 1-3 Dec, 2004).
World Today, Ptv-Prime
The world today, Pte program, President’s leading current affairs, and attract various scenes of ships across four continents. It is available on cable in Pakistan.This program aims to follow political developments and social and cultural rights in all parts of the world and which affect the interests and the awareness of the Pakistani state and society and the diaspora session. Ambitious, such as large in scope, sends a variety makes, the world today, unique among all programs of its kind: a single program may provide in-depth analysis of the politics of South Asia, and India-Pakistan relations or a rape case in the village; another might focus on the implications of the the new legislation on British Muslims and another will look at developments in the Middle East or changing patterns of global media.
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