Haroon Akhtar Khan

Khan was born in 1963 in Karachi to General Akhtar Abdur Rahman, the director general of the ISI under military dictator General Zia-ul-Haq.

He earned his Master of Science in Actuarial Science and Business Administration from the University of Manitoba, Canada and later became a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (SOA) in the United States and also a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA), at the time of his qualification being the youngest actuary in the history of the profession.^[2]

Khan was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Punjab in 1993 and then again in 2002.^[3]

Khan has also been elected twice to the Senate of Pakistan, serving from 2006 to 2012 and then getting elected to a second term in 2018. In his time in the Senate, Khan was an influential voice and a senior member of the Committees on Finance, Economic Affairs and Revenue as well as Industries and Production.^[4]

During his term as Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) for Revenue, which began in 2015, Khan helped the Federal Board of Revenue collect record taxes. The tax-to-GDP ratio, a key indicator of revenue collection, reached a peak of 11.4 percent in 2017-18 under Khan's leadership.^[5]

In 2025, Haroon was appointed as the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) and Minister-in-Charge for Industries and Production, a move that was hailed by economic experts and industrialists given his extensive experience in economic and tax policy.^[6]