Fawad Hasan Fawad

Fawad belongs to the Pakistan Administrative Service, formerly referred to as the District Management Group and served as Director General of the Civil Services Academy from 1 June 2018 to 5 July 2018. Before joining the Civil Services Academy as Director General, he served as Principal Secretary to two Prime Ministers, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Nawaz Sharif. Fawad also served as Punjab's Provincial Secretary for Health, Communication & Works as well as held other portfolios. He has represented Pakistan in a multitude of capacities on foreign missions; including as the Commercial Counsellor of Pakistan to Germany from August 2003 to July 2006.

Fawad Hasan Fawad was accused of corruption and misuse of authority by Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in the Ashiana Housing scam. He was arrested by NAB on 6 July 2018 in the Ashiana Housing scam criminal investigation and was sent on fourteen days physical remand by an accountability court in Lahore.He directed the PLDC management to cancel the contract of Ashiana Iqbal without any inquiry. On the 14th of February, 2019 the Lahore High Court division bench comprising Justice Malik Shahzad Ahmad Khan and Justice Mirza Viqas Rauf also granted bail to Fawad, former implementation secretary to the chief minister, in the Ashiana Housing scam, but denied him bail in another NAB reference relating to assets beyond means. On the 21 January, 2020 Fawad was granted bail in the Assets case by the Lahore High Court by a two-judge bench comprising Justice Muhammad Tariq Abbasi and Justice Chaudhry Mushtaq, on the grounds that no illegitimate asset belonging to him had been unearthed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), no charge had been framed against him and that there was no nexus between him and any asset, however he had been arrested at the inquiry stage.

Fawad was promoted to the rank of Federal Secretary in December 2017.

Fawad belongs to the Pakistan Administrative Service and is batchmates with Zafarullah Khan (PAS), Shoaib Mir Memon (PAS), Sikandar Sultan Raja (PAS), Rizwan Ahmed (PAS), Jawad Rafique Malik (PAS) and Allah Dino Khawaja (PSP). His work during his tenure as the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of Pakistan from November 2015 to June 2018 was largely focused on the fruition of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor, effectively spearheading multiple infrastructure and energy projects and directing sector-wide investment across the nation.

Fawad served as Secretary to Chief Minister Punjab (Implementation), and Punjab from July 2012 to April 2013. Fawad served as Joint Secretary, Economic Affairs Division from April 2013 to June 4, 2013. From July 1994 to March 1997, Fawad Hasan Fawad served as Deputy Commissioner Quetta and Lahore; being the youngest individual to do so in Pakistan's history. He also served as Principal Staff Officer to Principal Secretary to Prime Minister of Pakistan and Deputy Secretary to Chief Secretary Balochistan. Earlier, he served as Assistant Commissioner in Quetta and Hub from August 1989 to January 1993.

His services in the financial sector included his appointment as Senior Group Advisor to the JS Group, Executive-in-Charge Infrastructure Development Division Bank Alfalah Limited from August 2005 to November 2006.

He served from May 1998 to March 1999 and November 1999 to September 2000 as Deputy Secretary and Principal Staff Officer to Chief Secretary Punjab. Fawad served from December 2001 to September 2002 as Additional Secretary, Services and General Administration Department Punjab. He served from April 2008 to November 2008 as Secretary Services and General Administration Punjab. From November 2008 to February 2010 he was Secretary Communication and Works Punjab. From February 2010 to April 2011, he served as Secretary Health Punjab. Fawad was Secretary Excise and Taxation, Punjab from July 2011 to July 2012.

Fawad was trained in 1982 as a lawyer at the University of Punjab and also undertook two years management training (1987–89) at the Civil Services Academy, Lahore. Fawad obtained his LLM in corporate finance from King’s College London, in 2001, whilst being awarded a British Council Chevening Scholarship.

Fawad Hasan Fawad (Urdu: فواد حسن فواد ‎) (born 14 January 1960) is a retired Pakistani civil servant who served in BPS-22 grade as the Principal Secretary to two Prime Ministers, Nawaz Sharif and Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.

Fawad was born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan and is the youngest of five brothers. His father, Muhammad Yaqub, was a Kashmiri migrant and a graduate of Sri Pratap College, Srinagar, 1935. After the Partition of India and creation of Pakistan in 1947, his parents migrated from Srinagar to Sialkot and then subsequently to Rawalpindi, where they settled.