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Shamsh Kassim Lakha (Sitara-e-Imtiaz, Hilal-e-Imtiaz, Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite) is the Executive Chairman of the Board Executive Committee of the University of Central Asia (UCA), and is leading the planning and building of UCA’s three campuses in Tajikistan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Kazakhstan.〔http://www.ucentralasia.org/uca_staff.asp# Shamsh Kassim-Lakha〕 Kassim-Lakha has a long association with UCA.〔http://www.ucentralasia.org/news.asp?Nid=734〕 He served as co-chair of the Commission on the Establishment of an International Institution of Higher Education, a distinguished panel of international and regional members who met extensively from 1995 to 1998 and developed the concept document for the University. In 2000, he was involved in the negotiations of the international treaty that led to UCA’s establishment by the governments of Tajikistan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Kazakhstan, and His Highness the Aga Khan. Reflecting his continued commitment to the region, in 2014, Kassim-Lakha was appointed the Aga Khan Development Network’s diplomatic representative to the Kyrgyz Republic. As Founding President of the Aga Khan University (AKU), the first private university chartered in South Asia, Kassim-Lakha led the planning, building and operations of this internationally renowned institution for nearly three decades. AKU was established by His Highness the Aga Khan in 1983 and has campuses in Pakistan, Eastern Africa and the United Kingdom. He was Federal Minister of Education as well as for Science and Technology in the Caretaker Government of Pakistan in 2007-2008. Currently he is the founding chair of the board for Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy, a member of the board of the International Baccalaureate Organization as well as the ex-Board member of BISP Benazir Income Support Programme Shamsh received his undergraduate education in the UK and an MBA from the University of Minnesota. He managed a workforce of 22,000and led one of the biggest industries in former East Pakistan now Bangladesh after he completed his education. The first two decades of his career were spent in the jute industry of East Pakistan and in venture capital activities as Managing Director of Industrial Promotion Services of Pakistan. Among numerous civic activities, he has served as District Governor of Lions International in Pakistan. He chaired the Committee which wrote Pakistan’s National Environment Protection Act (1997). In 2001-2, he led the government Task Force on Higher Education Reforms as well as the Steering Committee on Implementation of Higher Education Reforms with the rank of Minister of State. Their recommendations resulted in the creation of the Higher Education Commission (HEC), improvement of quality and physical facilities at universities, quadrupling of access for students, substantial increase in research output and a thousandfold increase in funding. He was a member of HEC from 2007 to 2011. In recognition of his academic and social work he has received an honorary degree from McMaster University, Canada as〔http://www.bisp.gov.pk/events/news/october%202011/ShamshKassim-Lakha.pdf http://www.hec.gov.pk/InsideHEC/CommissionMembers/Pages/shams_lakha.aspx http://www.ibo.org/council/members/lakha/lakhaindex.cfm 〕 well as two of the highest civil awards, Sitara-e-Imtiaz and Hilal-e-Imtiaz from the President of Pakistan and Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite from the President of France. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shamsh Kassim Lakha」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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