
Tariq Bajwa is a retired
Pakistani civil servant
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who served in
BPS-22 grade as the
Finance Secretary and
Economic Affairs Secretary of Pakistan. Bajwa also served as the 19th
Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan and the 20th
Chairman of the Federal Board of Revenue. He is the only Pakistani who won the
Littauer fellowship at
Harvard University
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. He also received a master's degree in Public Administration from the same institution. Bajwa is batchmates with
Shehzad Arbab,
Sajjad Saleem Hotiana and
Babar Yaqoob Fateh Muhammad.
Career
Bajwa served as the Governor of the State Bank from 7 July 2017 up till he was asked to resign from the post on 3 May 2019. Prior to this, he served as a
civil servant
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belonging to the
Pakistan Administrative Service
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. He served as the