Iftikhar Cheema

Biography

Iftikhar Ahmed Cheema is a highly qualified and experienced economist and statistician.  He works for OPM Pakistan in the Islamabad office. He has held posts of director, statistician and statistical investigator with the Federal Bureau of Statistics, Government of Pakistan over the past 25 years. During this period he has worked on the PIHS (from 1995-2004), Family Budget Survey, Agricultural Data Collection, Education and Health Sector Performance reports and poverty reports. From 2004-2006, Iftikhar Ahmed Cheema worked as a senior poverty specialist for UNDP at the Centre for Research on Poverty Reduction and Income Distribution measuring poverty, undertaking analysis and providing policy inputs regarding poverty reduction strategies. Iftikhar Ahmed Cheema has extensive and applied experience with the full cycle of survey design and implementation with social sector surveys as well as the analysis (including performance modelling), and presentation of results.