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Syed Hasan Javed, Chinese Studies Centre of Excellence in the National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Pakistan.

 

Ambassador(Retired) Syed Hasan Javed
CV of Ambassador (Retired) Syed Hasan Javed

 

Ambassador (Retired) Syed Hasan Javed, is a former officer of the Foreign Service of Pakistan. He was born in 1955 and holds a B.A. (Honours) and M.A. degree in Economics in First Division from Karachi University. He joined the government services in 1979 after qualifying the Central Superior Services of Pakistan. He belongs to the 6th batch of the Common Training Program. At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he served in multiple desks and headed Divisions such as the South Asia, Personnel, Policy Planning, United Nations, Economic Coordination, Asia-Pacific Region. He served in different diplomatic assignments in Pakistani Embassies in Harare, Dushanbe and Brussels. He spent nearly a decade in the People’s Republic of China in two diplomatic assignments, first time as a Third and Second Secretary from 1980-1987. The second time he was appointed as the Deputy Head of Mission/Minister in the Embassy of Pakistan from 2001-2003. He served as Pakistan’s High Commissioner in Mauritius from 2003-2007 and in Singapore from 2011-2014. He also served as Pakistan’s Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, based in Berlin from April 2014 to November 2015.

Ambassador Javed studied several languages including German, French, Russian, Arabic, Persian and Chinese. He is the author of Four books i.e ‘Chinese Made Easy’ of Conversational Chinese in 100 Lessons, The ‘Chinese Soft Power Code’ on the Evolution of the centuries old Chinese thought process and its modern manifestations, Pakistan’s First ‘Paramount Chinese English Urdu Dictionary’ of Ten thousand words, phrases, idioms, proverbs and Wisdom, and Rise of China and the Asian Century on the contribution of Chinese growth fuelling the dawn of Asian Century and lessons from its development experience. Ambassador Syed Hasan Javed retired from the Foreign Service in December, 2015. He now heads as Director, Chinese Studies Centre of Excellence in the National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Islamabad.