Salman Humayun

Salman Humayun
Alma mater	Quaid-i-Azam University
Occupation	Executive Director at Institute of Social and Policy Sciences
Years active	20
Known for	Education Policy, Education Financing, Accountability and Governance

Salman Humayun (Urdu: سلمان ہمایوں‎) is a public policy expert with experience in managing, designing and delivering technical assistance and reform programs especially focusing on governance and education sectors in Pakistan. He is currently the executive director at Institute of Social and Policy Sciences and the co-editor of Journal of Social and Policy Sciences.^[1] He is also member board of advisors at Centre for Public Policy and Governance, Forman Christian College, Pakistan.^[2]

Professional life

After completing his doctorate from Quaid-i-Azam University,^[3] Salman started his professional career as a lecturer at the University's National Institute of Pakistan Studies. He also served on a number of committees and management positions related to admission, examination and student affairs during his time. He was also Senior Resident Warden at the University.^[4] In 2003, Salman joined the Research Triangle Institute (RTI), North Carolina,^[5] and then became part of the Education Sector Reform Assistance (ESRA) Program in Pakistan as a technical leader for policy and planning. In 2004, he started working as the Deputy Chief of Party on ESRA program.^[6] In 2008, Salman became the executive director of the Institute of Social and Policy Sciences. Over the years, Salman has contributed to a number of research publications.^[7][8]

Salman Humayun talking at the Education Policy Hub held in Islamabad on August 6, 2015

Salman has been giving talks on various forums on public policy, education financing, governance and accountability. In a recent talk on 'Synergizing technical and political interface for education reforms', he emphasized the need of creating an equilibrium between the political and technical sides of reforms.^[9] He mentioned that in order to address the educational challenge of Pakistan, there is a need to synergize technical and political dimensions of education reform. According to Salman, aligning the political interests of public representatives with issues faced by the education sector of a particular constituency can lead to an action that would depict a win-win situation from political as well as administrative perspective. To elaborate his point, Salman gave examples of his work of designing ‘experiments’ to motivate reform within the public system.^[10]

Salman Humayun with Pakistan's Education Minister and other guests of honor

Salman works on public education financing in Pakistan under the platform of Institute of Social and Policy Sciences. One of the most significant feature of his work on education financing is the annual report published on the analysis of education budgets of Federal, provincial and districts governments in Pakistan. This year, the seventh report^[11] of this series was launched in Islamabad, Pakistan.^{[12][13][14][15]}

Salman has also contributed to the legal and institutional disaster risk reduction framework in Iraq.^[16]

Selected works

• Humayun, S. & Alam, A. (2014). Education Sector Procurements in Punjab.^[17]
• Humayun, S. & Alam, A. (2014). Education Sector Procurements in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.^[18]
• Humayun, S., Shahzad, R. & Cunningham, R. (2013). ‘Regulating low-fee private schools in Islamabad: A study in policy and practice’, in P. Srivastava (Ed.), Low-fee private schooling: Aggravating equity or mitigating disadvantage? Oxford Studies in Comparative Education Series.^[19]
• Humayun, S. (2006). Consumers versus corporate sector: Judicature’s role in balancing the equation.^[8]
• Mitchell, J., Humayun, S. & Muzaffar, I. (2005) ‘Education sector reforms in Pakistan: Demand generation as an alternative recipe’ in Robert N. Hathaway (Ed.), Education reform in Pakistan: Building for the future (pp. 107–122) Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Asia Program.^[20]

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