Kamran Ali Afzal

Kamran Ali Afzal is Cabinet Secretary.

Kamran Ali Afzal

A career civil servant, Kamran Ali Afzal has held a range of administrative and policymaking positions over the past thirty years, including assignments with the provincial governments of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab, the Federal Government, and the Prime Minister's Office.

His alma maters include: Aitchison College, Lahore, where he completed his O and A-Levels; Government College, Lahore, where he studied for his bachelor's and master's degrees in economics; and the University of Melbourne, from where he received a master's in public policy and management, and later a PhD in political economy.

Previous roles in government

  • Chief Secretary
  • Director General, Civil Services Academy
  • Finance Secretary
  • Secretary Industries & Production

Life achievements

  • Co-author
    Democratic Accountability and International Human Development: Regimes, institutions and resources (Routledge Explorations in Development Studies)
    27 Nov 2014