M. Adnan Gilani

Team Lead, Prime Minister's Delivery Unit (PMDU)/Founding Partner, Goldpebble Research, Shanghai

Mr. Gilani has pursued a career in finance, economics and emerging markets for over two decades. On the public sector side, he started at the Debt Office in the Ministry for Finance as Director, looking after the comprehensive management of all risks (currency, interest rate, etc) of both the internal and external debt portfolios.  This required liaising with the State Bank and the SECP for the development of the local bond markets and exchanges as well.

Following this, he was involved in private equity financing, bringing in a foreign consortium of investors for one of Pakistan’s largest bank acquisitions. 

On the international front, Mr. Gilani has led teams and units at top international institutions Goldman Sachs, Citibank and HSBC.  He also managed funds focused on Asia and its development areas like infrastructure, privatization, banking, etc at Galleon International (a top NY based hedge fund).  Most recently, he founded the boutique Asia macro/fundamental research firm, Goldpebble Research, which does primary research and industry analysis concentrated on China and its periphery. 

Along with his commitment with Goldpebble Mr. Gilani was recently asked to help set up and manage the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit (PMDU) at the Prime Minister’s Office with a mandate to oversee strategic initiatives of the Government.  PMDU is also the pivotal coordination unit between the governments, ministries, financial institutions and project sponsors for the implementation of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) initiative.

Mr. Gilani’s academic background is in Analytic Finance and International Business; he has undergraduate degrees in Economics (Finance) from the Wharton Business School and Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.  He went to graduate school at the University of Chicago (Booth) for advanced Analytic Finance.

 

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