New MD appointed at OUP Pakistan
KARACHI: Oxford University Press Pakistan (OUP-P) is now being headed by a new managing director, Arshad Saeed Husain.
He takes over from Ameena Saiyid, who had served as the MD of the organisation for over 29 years since 1988.
She rapidly built up the OUP-P’s educational, academic and reference publishing programme.
Mr Husain brings over 12 years of multi-industry experience as a CEO of publicly listed and private companies.
He was the CEO of the Aman Healthcare Services and also served in senior leadership positions in different pharmaceutical companies.
Ameena Saiyid will continue at the OUP-P as chairperson and will advise on the Press’s role in education in Pakistan, and in other Asian markets.
In 2005, Ms Saiyid became the first woman in Pakistan to be awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of her services to women’s rights, education, democracy, intellectual property rights and Anglo-Pakistan relations.
Apart from managing the OUP-P she is also the founder and director of the Karachi Literature Festival and the Islamabad Literature Festival and also worked to launch both the children’s and teacher’s literature festivals.
The OUP is a department of the University of Oxford.
Published in Dawn, March 29th, 2018