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President
  
Mamnoon Hussain

Name
  
Asad Umar

Awards
  
Sitara-i-Imtiaz

Nationality
  
Pakistani

Party
  
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf


Citizenship
  
Pakistan

Parents
  
Ghulam Umar

Constituency
  
NA 48

Role
  
Pakistani lawmaker

Siblings
  
Zubair Umar

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Born
  
8 September 1961 (age 62) (
1961-09-08
)

Political party
  
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

Alma mater
  
Government College, KarachiInstitute of Business Administration, Karachi

Education
  
Institute of Business Administration, Karachi

Similar People
  
Imran Khan, Jehangir Khan Tareen, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Shaikh Rasheed Ahmad, Arif Alvi

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Asad Umar (Urdu: اسد عمر‎; born c. 1961) is a Pakistani politician and retired businessman. A member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Umar has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan representing Islamabad, since 2013.

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Early life and education

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In an interview, Umar said he was born in Rawalpindi in 1961 and is the youngest of six brothers and one sister. His father was an army officer. After his father’s retirement from military, he moved to Karachi along with his family. He is the youngest brother of Mohammad Zubair.

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Umar received a degree in Commerce (B.Com) at the Government College of Commerce & Economics.

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Umar graduated from IBA Karachi in 1984 from where he received an MBA degree.

Professional career

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He worked in HSBC Pakistan after graduation for seven months.

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He joined Exxon Chemical Pakistan in 1985 as a business analyst and was based in Canada. He was the only Pakistani employee of the company.

Umar came back to Pakistan to join Engro Corporation in 1985.

In 1997 was appointed the first CEO of Engro Polymer and Chemicals, the petrochemical company of the group.

He became the President and CEO of Engro Corporation in 2004.

In 2009, he was awarded Sitara-i-Imtiaz for his public service.

He took early retirement as president and CEO from Engro in April 2012 at the age of 50.

Umar is being credited for turning a chemical company into a major conglomerate and is considered one of the most popular and highly paid CEOs in Pakistan.

Political career

He joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in 2012 and was made senior vice president of PTI.

He was elected as a Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan for the first time for Constituency NA-48 on PTI ticket in by-election held following Pakistani general election, 2013.

In 2014, Lahore University of Management Sciences cancelled a scheduled speech of Umar due to being political in nature rather than educational.

References

Asad Umar Wikipedia