Dr Javaid R. Laghari is a Senator in the
Pakistan Senate. He was elected in March 2006 for a six year
term and belongs to the
Pakistan Peoples Party chaired by
Ms. Benazir
Bhutto. He comes from the Province of Sindh.
Dr. Laghari serves on the Senate Standing Committees on Water and Power; Information Technology; and Information and Broadcasting. He is a Member of the PPP Central Committees on Policy Planning (Deputy Coordinator); Manifest Implementation (Deputy
Chairman);
Manifesto
(Member); and Energy and Power (Chairman), and is the focus person for International Information Dissemination and Networking.
Dr. Laghari is also the President of
SZABIST (listed among the best Science & Technology and Business Schools of the World by Business Week, Asia Inc, Asia Week and CNN Executive Education). He specializes in Leadership, Higher Education, Information Technology, Power and Energy, High Voltage Systems and Space Power Technology. As President of SZABIST and as Senator, Dr Laghari has written numerous articles and has appeared in a large number of TV interviews on leadership issues relating to Pakistan and the world.
Prior to joining SZABIST and entering the world of politics, Dr. Laghari was the Director of Graduate Studies and Tenured Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the State University of New York State University of New York
(SUNY) at Buffalo, USA. SUNY is the largest public research university in the north eastern United States. During his tenure at SUNY, Dr Laghari published over 120 research papers and presented over 70 papers at International Conferences.
Dr. Laghari has attended the NATO Advanced
Study Institute in UK in 1991; and the NATO Advanced Study Institute in
Italy in 1983 (only top 100 scientists from NATO countries are invited
to attend these Advanced Institutes in Europe). When in the United
States, Dr. Laghari has performed sponsored research for National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the US Air Force Office of
Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the
Naval Research Lab (NRL), the Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA), the
Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO), the Strategic Defense
Initiatives (SDI), Hughes Aircraft and the Boeing Aerospace Company.
Dr. Laghari was the Chairman of the 1992
IEEE International Conference on High Voltage Engineering, USA, and has
organized many International Conferences and chaired numerous Sessions
and Workshops in the United States. He has also served as the Chairman
of the Technical Standards Committee on Radiation Effects, and as the
Representative on the United States Activities Board on Man and
Radiation. Dr. Laghari is the author of the IEEE Standard 775 - 1993 and
has published a Book Chapter and a Monograph in the United States.
Dr. Laghari has also been a Member of the
Ministry of Science and Technology Human Resource Development Committee,
Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB), Pakistan Council for Science and
Technology (PCST), and the Sindh Information Technology Board (SITB). He
is currently a Member of the ACM (USA) and Chairman of the ACM (Karachi
Chapter), Senior Member of the IEEE (USA), Member of the New York
Academy of Sciences, and the Executive Committees of the Federation of
the University of Islamic World (FUIW) and the Asia University
Federation (AUF).
Dr. Laghari is the recipient of the
Distinguished Leadership Award, 1987, the International Cultural Diploma
of Honor, 1988, the IEEE Award for Leadership and Dedicated Services,
1994, and the coveted national award 'Tamgha-e-Imtiaz' conferred by the
President of Pakistan in 1998.
Dr. Laghari is listed in the American Men
and Women of Science, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in
the East and Who's Who in the World.
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