Mohammad Hanif Channa 

Minister (Trade and Investment), Pakistan's Trade and Commercial Diplomacy

Hanif Channa is currently serving as the head of Pakistan's Trade and Commercial Diplomacy in the US. 

He is a career civil servant from the Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS), with 28 years of experience in public service, administration, public finance, and economic governance. He has held prominent positions within both the government and the corporate sector. 

Before his current role, he served as the Secretary General for Administration and Cabinet in the Government of Sindh, Pakistan. Previously, he was the Chief Program Manager with the Reform Support Unit (RSU) in the Education Department, where he led an education-focused program. In this position, he implemented extensive reforms aimed at increasing enrollment rates and reducing dropout rates in the region. 

Throughout his career, he has managed teams of specialists in the design and execution of multi-million-dollar investment programs in Pakistan, funded by organizations such as the ADB, World Bank, GPE, and others. 

He has been the CEO of the Sindh Rural Support Organization (SRSO), one of the largest rural development programs aimed at empowering women in Southern Pakistan. 

Earlier, he served as Secretary Finance and Additional Chief Secretary (Planning and Development) in the northern region of Pakistan called Gilgit-Baltistan. He also served as Additional Finance Secretary, Sindh. 

He is a lifelong member of the Pakistan Engineering Council. He graduated from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge and earned a master’s degree in International Development from the International University of Japan, where he was an ADB Scholar. 

He is also a recipient of the Endeavour Executive Award (Government of Australia), Charles Wallace Fellowship, British Council, and Hubert Humphrey Fellowship-MIT Cambridge. 

He is married and has two children.