

Arif Gafur, President
Houston
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Haji Mody, Secretary
Dallas
Mr. Mody is the president of a hardware distribution business in Dallas-Fort Worth. Before starting his own business in 1991,
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He also volunteers at the mosque in Richardson, participating in various inter-faith activities.
Mr. Mody has an MBA in International Business from University of Dallas and a Bachelor’s degree from University of Karachi. Mr. Mody and his wife, Jane, live in Dallas and have two children.
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Faraz (Farri) Khan, Treasurer
San Francisco / Austin
Ms. Khan is currently the Chief Accounting Officer of University of California San Francisco Health.
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She has an MBA in Finance from W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University and is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
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Abdullah Jafri, Director
Houston
After spending approximately four decades in commercial aviation, he retired in 1998 from the position of President and CEO of Skyways International, Inc., a company that operated large corporate jets.
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He has also served on the board and as secretary of SIUT North America, Inc., benefiting the Sind Institute of Urology and Transplantation in Karachi. Moreover, he was a member of Daya’s advisory board, an organization that serves South Asian victims of domestic or sexual violence in Houston. Mr. Jafari is also a member of the Houston Rotary Club.
He is married to Anjum Jafari who in her own right brings a lot of strength to TCF-USA. Mr. Jafari was an active sportsman and played cricket representing Karachi and Pakistan International Airline teams in first class cricket.
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Azhar Hameed, Director
Los Angeles
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Mr. Hameed is trained in the fields of Computer Science from University of Oklahoma and Business Management from the Anderson School, University of California, Los Angeles. An avid golfer, he has represented Pakistani Golfers Group as a team captain and organizer.
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Amjad Noorani, Director
San Francisco
Mr. Noorani is a retired physical therapist and safety consultant. He operated a clinical practice in California from 1971 to 1999, and has served on boards and committees of professional and non-profit organizations at the local, state and national level.
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He completed his education at the School of Physiotherapy, University of Karachi in 1969. His personal interests include hiking, music, tennis, photography and gardening. He and his wife, Najma, live in Los Altos, California. His wife is also an active supporter of TCF-USA.
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Jawaid Ekram, Director
Seattle
Mr. Ekram is a Cloud Computing industry veteran and an entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in engineering and operations of large-scale systems. He is the co-founder of Uhuru Software, a services company.
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Shimmi Kidwai, Director
Washington, DC
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Ejaz A. Shameem, Director
Chicago
Currently, he is Senior Vice President and Director of the Energy Business Consulting group, where he is responsible for the overall management and direction of the group’s various global engagements.
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Mr. Shameem is dedicated to the cause of education. He contributes towards building schools through TCF and also funds a University of Illinois Foundation scholarship for deserving engineering students.
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Kashmala Sharif, Director
New York
She currently serves as the Co-Head of the New York chapter which has been a critical pillar for the growth of TCF-USA. Kashmala holds a LLB from the University of Buckingham (UK) and a LLM from the Cardozo School of Law.

Dr. Adil Najam, Director
Boston
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Dr. Najam was named the inaugural Dean of Boston University’s Fredrick S. Pardee School of Global Studies in 2014. He is also a Professor of International Relations and of Earth and Environment at Boston University. Earlier, 2011 2014, Dr. Najam served as the Vice Chancellor of Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan. He has also taught at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Prof. Najam holds a PhD (in environment and development policy) and two Masters degrees (in technology policy and in environmental engineering) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a Specialization in Negotiation from the Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School, and Bachelors in\ civil engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Pakistan.
Dr. Najam has published widely, written over 100 scholarly papers and book chapters. Some of his recent books include: South Asia 2060: Envisioning Regional Futures (2013); How Immigrants Impact their Homelands (2013); The Future of South-South Economic Relations (2012); Trade and Environment: Visions from the South (2007); Pakistanis in America: Portrait of a Giving Community (2006). He was the Lead Author for the Pakistan National Human Development Report (NHDR), published in 2018 by UNDP- Pakistan.
He serves on the Board of WWF International, The Asia Foundation, and the Consensus Building Institute. In 2009 Dr. Najam was nominated to serve on the UN Committee on Development (CDP), on which he continues to serve. In 2010 he was awarded the Sitara-i Imtiaz (Star of Excellence), one of Pakistan’s highest civil awards by the President of Pakistan.
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Haroon Ismail, Director
New York
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Prior to AEA, Mr. Ismail was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. He graduated from the Stern School of Business, New York University with a BS in Finance and Accounting and a minor in Politics.
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Tariq Khan
Director (New Jersey)
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Barbara Janes, Director
Chicago
She was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Peshawar in the early 1960s. Friends of Pakistan USA, a community formed by Barbara and her former Peace Corps colleagues has been raising funds to support different TCF projects like student scholarships. Ms. Barbara also visited Pakistan in 2007 to conduct TCF teachers’ training workshops in Karachi and Lahore. In 2009, Barbara worked alongside TCF teachers to organize summer science camps.

Zarrar Sehgal, Advisor
New York
Mr. Sehgal is an attorney. He is a partner in Clifford Chance’s US Finance and Restructuring Group and Co-Head of the Asset Finance Practice.
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He received his Juris Doctor (JD) degree from Georgetown University Law Center and his undergraduate degree from Boston University.
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Azher Khan, Advisor
Indianapolis
Mr. Khan is the President of Calderon Textiles Inc., established in 1983 in Indianapolis. Mr. Khan has also been serving as a Treasurer at Al-Fajr Masjid for the past 24 years. He is also the Treasurer of Muslim Alliance of Indiana and the President of Seeds of Learning, a non-profit dedicated to building goodwill, friendship, peace and tolerance between the people of Pakistan and America through education.
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Danial Noorani, Founder
Chicago
Mr. Noorani also served as President and member of the Board of ‘Apna Ghar’ (Our Home), a twenty five year old agency for domestic violence survivors in Chicago.
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Mr. Noorani has an MBA from Western Illinois University and a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and Economics from University of Karachi. Mr. Noorani and his wife, Karen, have three children and live in Roselle, Illinois.
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Uneza Akhtar, Director Administration
Chicago
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