Adeel Shafqat - CERP

Adeel Shafqat

Director, Agri Hub

Adeel is the Director for Agri-Hub at CERP and formerly the country director of Precision Development at CERP. He is an M&E expert with a focus on public policy and Public Financial Management with broad international experience. He was one of the original members of the CERP team, helping to establish the Property Tax Project. As a PFM expert, he has worked with governments in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Kosovo, and Nepal as a PFM consultant, helping with business process reengineering and capacity building. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Lahore University of Management Sciences and completed his master’s from the University of Warwick in Political Economy. His research interests include Agriculture Policy, Farmer Behavior Change, Public Financial Management, public sector capacity building, and digital extension services for agriculture. He teaches at the Lahore School of Economics. He was the country director for an international non-profit founded by Nobel prize-winning economist Michael Kremer, Precision Development, where he led the work on their advisory services for over 1.3 million smallholder farmers across Punjab, in collaboration with the Agriculture Department from 2017 to 2023.

Adeel Shafqat

Director, Agri Hub

Adeel is the Director for Agri-Hub at CERP and formerly the country director of Precision Development at CERP. He is an M&E expert with a focus on public policy and Public Financial Management with broad international experience. He was one of the original members of the CERP team, helping to establish the Property Tax Project. As a PFM expert, he has worked with governments in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Kosovo, and Nepal as a PFM consultant, helping with business process reengineering and capacity building. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Lahore University of Management Sciences and completed his master’s from the University of Warwick in Political Economy. His research interests include Agriculture Policy, Farmer Behavior Change, Public Financial Management, public sector capacity building, and digital extension services for agriculture. He teaches at the Lahore School of Economics. He was the country director for an international non-profit founded by Nobel prize-winning economist Michael Kremer, Precision Development, where he led the work on their advisory services for over 1.3 million smallholder farmers across Punjab, in collaboration with the Agriculture Department from 2017 to 2023.

Adeel Shafqat

Director, Agri Hub

Adeel is the Director for Agri-Hub at CERP and formerly the country director of Precision Development at CERP. He is an M&E expert with a focus on public policy and Public Financial Management with broad international experience. He was one of the original members of the CERP team, helping to establish the Property Tax Project. As a PFM expert, he has worked with governments in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Kosovo, and Nepal as a PFM consultant, helping with business process reengineering and capacity building. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Lahore University of Management Sciences and completed his master’s from the University of Warwick in Political Economy. His research interests include Agriculture Policy, Farmer Behavior Change, Public Financial Management, public sector capacity building, and digital extension services for agriculture. He teaches at the Lahore School of Economics. He was the country director for an international non-profit founded by Nobel prize-winning economist Michael Kremer, Precision Development, where he led the work on their advisory services for over 1.3 million smallholder farmers across Punjab, in collaboration with the Agriculture Department from 2017 to 2023.