Sulaiman Shaukat Wasty was born in Lahore, Pakistan, on 10 February 1951, the son of Husnia Jabeen and Syed Ali Ahmad Nayyar Wasty. Mother was a poetess, and father a scholar and a writer. Both parents, by their example, instilled in their children the sense of responsibility and caring for the poor.
Following his early schooling in Lahore, Pakistan, Sulaiman received a B.Sc. ECON. (Honours) from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University,
Sulaiman has accumulated more than 30 years of experience in international development, specializing in the evaluation of public sector management, governance, and institutional development—spanning a career and assignments with the Planning Commission of Pakistan, the World Bank, and the United Nations. He is currently the president of Sharakpur, a Washington, DC–based consulting firm that provides advisory services to governments, corporations, and multilateral institutions in the conduct of their public policy mandates.
He is also a founding member of Middle East and North Africa Consultants Association. In 2012, he was appointed the team leader of a multidisciplinary United Nations (UN) group to carry out an independent assessment of the impact of the UN and other partners' ongoing reconstruction assistance to Iraq and its Kurdistan region. Further, Sulaiman is an advisor to Gulf State Analytics—a Washington, DC-based firm which assesses risks and opportunities among the Gulf countries in the Middle East Region.
Sulaiman has been an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute; and has held guest teaching positions at the Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
He lives in Washington, DC.
