Mr. Hameed is a law graduate and holds a Master’s Degree in International Economic Law from Warwick University, UK. He joined the Civil Service of Pakistan in 1995 and has twenty-four years of diverse managerial as well as administrative experience within the Public Sector and UN agencies in donor-funded project management. He has served in the Ministry of Commerce for over a decade both at the policy and tactical levels. He was head of the Asia Division and negotiated the implementation of Pakistan’s trade agreements with China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka. In addition to that, he has worked in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD), Trade Development Authority of Pakistan, United Nations Development Program, United Nations Industrial Development Organization and Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority Currently Mr. Omar Hameed is working as the Economic Minister at Pakistan Embassy at Brussels, Belgium since 2016. He has done multiple courses in International Trade and is a certified Master Trainer in Trade Negotiations from the World Trade Institute, University of Berne.

During his tenure at CADD, he was assigned the Additional Charge of Federal College for Education (FCE). It was his first experience of educational administration but during his stay, he tried to initiate various reforms to make the institution more effective. He initiated a series of guest Celebrity lectures with the major focus on the character-building of students. For the promotion of democratic values, he provided the opportunity for students to elect their “Students Council” by conducting the election within the college.

“During my short stay in this institution, I was impressed with its rich human and material resources, which seemed underutilized. Therefore, an initiative was taken to make it more autonomous and seek degree-awarding status. I extend my best wishes to FCE and hope it would soon be given an opportunity to live up to its potential and get recognized as a state-of-the-art teacher education institute”