Biography

Ambassador Shafqat Ali Khan

Mr Shafqat Ali Khan was born in 1969. He got his higher education from King College, London, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad and Uppsala University, Sweden.

• Appointed as Ambassador of Pakistan to the Russian Federation in March 2020;
• Appointed as Ambassador of Pakistan to the Republic of Poland in July 2017;
• Director General (Europe), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Islamabad (2016-2017);
• Diplomatic Adviser to the Speaker National Assembly (2014-2015);
• Deputy Permanent Representative, Pakistan Mission to the United Nation in Geneva (2010-2013);
• Counsellor (Political and Strategic Affairs), Embassy of Pakistan, Beijing (2007-2010);
• In 2001-2006, served at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Director (Human Rights), Deputy Director (Foreign Secretary's Office), and Deputy Director (India);
• Second Secretary, Pakistan Mission to the United Nations in New York (1998-2001);
• Joined the Foreign Service of Pakistan (1993).

Mr Shafqat Ali Khan is married with a son and a daughter.