Ms. Ayesha Gulzar
Chairperson
Ms. Gulzar is a management consult ant and Master Trainer with 20 years of diverse working experience and consulting for Multilaterals, development organizations and global Fortune 500 companies in the US and Europe. Ms. Gulzar has majored in MIS (with honors) from the University of Connecticut and studied Strategic Leadership at Yale University; she has also been trained in social media leveraging and Social Entrepreneurship from Oxford University, UK. Ms. Gulzar’s area of focus is enterprise development, Microfinance, specializing in agricultural- hybrid as well as traditional Value Chain creation. She is an experienced manager and facilitator able to lead, motivate and mobilize individuals, teams and organizational change. Her projects have demanded building effective working relationships and coaching senior executives around business enabling environments. Her expertise includes organizational capacity development, requirements analysis/audits and process engineering, strategic planning, design and change management, communication collateral development. She is currently advising the OIC/IDB-ICCIA on Agri-business enterprise development and value creation strategies. She has worked in the US, UK, UAE, Africa, Germany, India, Iran, Spain, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. She was invited as speaker at the 15th Private Sector Meeting and 7th Forum for Businesswomen held in Tehran, I.R. of Iran from 28th to 30th October 2013 by the Islamic Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture (ICCIA). She presented a paper on Food Security in the OIC Countries and how to address the issues, which was very well received by the audience Mr. Safdar Ali Malik Mr. Safdar is a charted accountant & MBA Finance & Accounts by profession He has more than 22 years of diverse experience in the fields of Banking, Finance and Accounts He is amongst one of the senior members with over 22 years Banking, Finance and Accounts experience. In addition, he has attended various leadership and Strategic. He started his career as Chief Accountant and served for around nine years in various managerial roles, before joining the RCDP as director. He served as Head of Finance and Account for the sugar industry for nine years and in the RCDP, he heading the BODs audit Committee as Chairperson. RCDP will get benefits from his professional expertise particularly in the areas of strategic and financial planning, systems and controls management. He has been on the Board of Directors of RCDP since its formation as active member and he has got training from Hikmah Consulting on the corporate governance.
