Khalid Rahman elected chairman of Institute of Policy Studies

The
Board of Governors of Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), Islamabad has
unanimously elected Khalid Rahman, former executive president and director
general of the Institute, as the new chairman of IPS, on January 29, 2021.

Rahman
has replaced Professor Khurshid Ahmad, former senator and founding chairman of
the Institute, in the position, who himself has been elevated to the rank of
the Institute’s patron-in-chief.

It
is worth mentioning here that the Institute was established in 1979 as the
first non-government policy research institution of Pakistan. The Institute has
been playing an active role in the country’s policy arena since then, reviewing
and recommending viable policy alternatives over different issues pertaining to
the national interest.