Khawaja Iqbal Hassan was appointed as an Independent Director on the Board of Lucky Cement Limited on October 20, 2021.

Mr. Hassan holds a diploma in Accountancy from the U.K. and a BSc in Finance and Marketing from the University of San Francisco, graduating cum laude in 1980. He started his career with Citibank N.A. and in 1994 co-founded Global Securities Pakistan Limited, a former joint-venture partner of UBS AG and a leading stockbroking and investment banking firm. In 2003 he founded NIB Bank Limited which, in partnership with Temasek Holdings of Singapore, became a top-10 ranked commercial bank in Pakistan within a period of 4 years. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of both institutions.

Mr. Hassan currently also serves as a Director on the Board of Y.B. Holdings, a holding company of the Yunus Brothers/ Lucky Group. He is a Trustee on the Boards of the Karachi Grammar School, the Layton Rehmatullah Benevolent Trust and The Hassan Foundation. He is also Chairman of the Advisory Committee of Development Corporation Advisers, a wholly owned subsidiary of BII (British International Investment - formerly the CDC Group Plc), the development finance institution of the United Kingdom.

Mr. Hassan was nominated by the Government of Pakistan to serve as a Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of Pakistan and as a Board Member of the State Bank of Pakistan. He has also served on the Boards of ICI Pakistan Limited, Engro Corporation Limited, the Civil Aviation Authority of Pakistan, Pakistan Steel Mills Limited, Habib Bank Limited, NIB Bank Limited, National Fullerton Asset Management Company Limited, UBS/Global Securities Pakistan Limited, Citicorp Investment Bank Pakistan, The Pakistan Fund, Lahore University of Management Sciences, the Central Depository Company of Pakistan Limited and the Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy.

Mr. Hassan is a former Vice Chairman of the Pakistan Bankers’ Association and has served as Chairperson, Banking Sector Committee on the reform of Pakistan’s Banking Companies Ordinance. He has also been a member of the Prime Minister of Pakistan’s Task Forces on Foreign Exchange Reserves Management, Corporate Tax Reform and Capital Markets Reform.

In 2007, Mr. Hassan was awarded the Sitara-e-Imtiaz by the Government of Pakistan for meritorious contributions to national interests.