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Jawwad Farid is “a self employed Karachiite with a questionable work ethic and a penchant for founding companies that run into trouble”. Nonetheless, he is the author of The Blue Screen of Death and CEO of Alchemy Technologies – one of the largest Enterprise risk and Actuarial firms in Pakistan with a portfolio of several blue chip customers. Jawwad is a Fellow Society of Actuaries, an MBA from Columbia Business School and a Computer Science graduate. During the last 15 years, he has worked as a consultant in North America, the Middle East, Pakistan and United Kingdom with a number of blue chip clients. Jawwad is also the appointed Actuary for State Life Corporation of Pakistan and Dawood Family Takaful Limited. Jawwad’s core areas of expertise include Asset/Risk Management, Investments, Product development, Derivatives, the financial services Middle Office and the Basel II Regulatory Frame work.

In early Spring Mr. Fawad launched Pakistan Risk Review – “a dedicated periodical that quantifies the risk associated with Pakistani securities using a consistent, objective benchmark”. Currently on its third issue the periodical is going strong and picking up momentum. The Editor’s Notes to the Second and Third Issues are worth noting. They have been linked to below, with permission from Jawwad.

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