Taimur Farooq Email & Phone Number

Pakistan

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

• o Prepared a policy paper for Small and Medium Enterprise Finance Development (SMEDA) Pakistan that was presented to the Minister of Industries and Production and State Bank of PakistanFollowing recommendations were.
• Setting up a PKR 30 billion SMEDA Fund for SME Finance
• Collateral free lending of up to PKR 10 million for SMEs at a lower markup of 9 percent.
• Subsidy/guarantee of up 60 percent to be provided by the government o Submitted research and development proposals to Karandaaz Pakistan, CGAP and Ministry of Finance on the following projects
• Development of Digital Assets and Digital Assets Trading Platform in Pakistan
• Climate Smart Low-Income Housing

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Lahore, Pakistan

Pakistan

• Coordinating with officials at Punjab Safe Cities Authority (PSCA) and Harvard’s Evidence for Policy Design (EPOD) to execute a research study on 15 helpline emergency response data. The study assesses whether.
• Collaborating with the Local Government & Community Development Department (LG&CD) on a study that provides evidence on the current use of formal and informal dispute resolution forums by citizens(that are courts and.
• Designing surveys to effectively measure relevant outcomes
• Cleaning and running analysis on the collected data in Excel, STATA and R
• Executing fieldwork in Okara, Kasur and Sargodha and overseeing research implementation at PSCA office
• Writing reports and final journal paper for the project

• Project: Application of ICT and Big Datasets for Governance Reform in Punjab by World Bank and UKAID
• Executing smartphone attendance monitoring project for seven public schools and ninety basic health units in Punjab
• Assisting in completion of cell phone data analysis project using ArcGIS
• Completing final report for the client World BankProject: Digital Preservation of Pakistan’s Heritage by USAID
• Planning the opening ceremony of project
• Assisting in training program, field documentation & 3D visualization of Wazir Khan Mosque in Lahore to digitally preserve the heritage site (Link: http://www.cyark.org/projects/masjid-wazir-khan)Project: Mapping the.

Islamabad

• Coordinating, assisting, and handling all program stakeholders, internal and external as well as regional offices for the organization and management of IMP and VCP component under the supervision of National.
• Managed and reported the progress of eighty-five Farmer Enterprise Groups (FEG) in Southern Punjab, conducted extensive fieldwork to document project activities and achieve deliverables in time
• Organized local events, business meetings and participation in international conferences for entrepreneurial farmers
• Assisting the team of IMP/VCPs in coordination and communication of the organization of international events, business meetings and conferences at the local and international level pertaining to the IMP and VCP.
• Assisting and handling the appropriate administration, budgeting, monitoring, reporting and communication in a self-reliant manner with direction from the National Coordinator
• Preparing of reports and briefs as and when required from time to time based on project activities

Lahore

• Conducting competitor analysis and understanding client requirements in order to develop better workflows and usability for the firm's most profitable electronic medical records (EMR) web application called V-10
• Developing a new Ipad application called Avalon aimed to meet the EMR requirements of doctors and patients present in USA
• Working directly with Mr. Bilal Hashmat, CEO CureMD, in researching web designs and innovating ideas for the user interface of Avalon EMR

Masters In Public Policy And Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics And Political Science