Fazal Ahmad Khalid
Fazal Ahmad Khalid (Urdu: فضل احمد خالد) (born 31 December 1957) has joined as Chairman Punjab Higher Education Commission in June, 2019. He previously served University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore as Vice Chancellor in 2015. Early life and education. Fazal Ahmad Khalid was born in Kasur, Punjab, Pakistan on 31 December 1957. He did his basic engineering education at University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore in 1980. Then he went to England for further studies in Metallurgical Engineering and Metallurgy & Materials Engineering and received his higher education degrees from the University of Oxford in 1991 and  2005. Career. He was also appointed as Acting VC of Punjab Tianjin University of Technology (PTUT) in 2018 which is a joint cooperation program with Tianjin University of Technology and Education (TUTE), Tianjin Chengjian University (TCU) and Tianjin Polytechnic University (TPU). He is also Vice Chairman of Pakistan Engineering Council and head of PEC Accreditation Board and Curriculum Committee for engineering programs. He had additional charge of Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology (KFUEIT) Rahim Yar Khan and Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Engineering & Technology (MNS UET) Multan in 2015-2016. He also served at Ghulam Ishaq Khan  Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (GIKI) for 21 years as Pro-Rector and Dean from 1994-2014. His research interests are in the field of Nanotechnology and Materials Engineering and published over 200 research papers with accumulative impact factor of 121. He had Postdoc Fellowships in University of Oxford and Leeds, UK and Guest Professorship for short-term research program on Diamond-Based Composite Materials at the Swiss Federal Labs (EMPA) Switzerland. Earlier he worked in PCSIR Lahore and Pakistan Steel Mills, Karachi. He is a Fellow of Royal Microscopical Society, Oxford, The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining  (FIMMM), London and the Pakistan Academy of Sciences. He is actively involved in the change and paradigm shift to implement Outcome Based Education (OBE) of engineering programs, quality assurance and accreditation manual to harmonize with Washington Accord and CPD for international recognition and ranking global mobility of engineers.