Syed Raza Ali Gillani

Syed Raza Ali Gilani Urdu: سید رضا علی گیلانی‎ first elected to the Punjab Assembly at 25 years of age from his hometown seat of PP-187. Syed Raza Ali Gillani son of Syed Afzaal Ali Shah Gillani was born on April 30, 1975. After acquiring his early education from Aitchison College, Lahore, he graduated in 1995 from Government College, Lahore and obtained M.Sc. degree in (Textile Marketing) in 1999 from Philadelphia University, Philadelphia. He served as Nazim, UC 110, Hujra during 2000-01; as Member of Punjab Assembly during 2002-07 and functioned as Minister for Housing Urban Development & Public Health Engineering during 2003-07. An agriculturist, who has returned to the Punjab Assembly for the second term in general elections 2008. He has extensively travelled abroad and visited USA, Australia, UK, Turkey, and UAE and has attended various National & International Seminars/Conferences. His father served as Member, Provincial Assembly of the Punjab successively from 1985 to 1999 and also functioned as Minister for Health during 1985-87; as Minister for Housing, Physical and Environmental Planning during 1988-90; and as Minister for Housing and Physical Planning during 1997-99.- Hujra Shah Muqeem. He has been made provincial Higher Education Minister in December, 2016 in the cabinet of Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif. Since then, he has taken many beneficial steps for enhancing the performance of Higher Education Department and introduced sustained reforms-process to improve the overall standards of higher education institutions, especially the public sector universities.