The Board of Directors of the Pakistan Business Council (PBC) in its meeting on May 11, elected Ali S Habib as its new chairman following the early retirement of Asad Umar. Ali Habib is the Chairman of Indus Motor Company Limited. He heads and actively oversees the operations of The House of Habib (HOH) companies. Ali is a graduate of the University of Minnesota (Mechanical Engineering).
He has attended the PMD Programme at Harvard University and is a Founding director of the Pakistan Business council. He was the Vice Chairman of the PBC before his election as the PBC Chairman. According to a press release issued here on Monday, the Board also elected Sikander Mustafa Khan as the new Vice Chairman of the PBC. Sikander is Chairman of the Millat Group of Companies; he is a graduate of NED Engineering College (Mechanical Engineering) and has a Masters' Degree from Imperial College of Science and Technology, London and another from the University of New Castle upon Tyne, UK. He was appointed as Managing Director of Millat Tractors Limited (MTL) in October 1985 and successfully led his team for the Employee Buy-out of MTL. The PBC is a private sector funded business policy advocacy group representing some of the largest business groups/companies in Pakistan including multinationals.-PR