Mr. Muhammad Sohail Rajput, Additional Finance Secretary, Government of Pakistan, is a senior civil servant with expertise in financial management and project development and management. He has over 25 years of experience in Civil Service of Pakistan, which includes managing provincial government finances and handling diversified development projects.

Mr. Muhammad Sohail Rajput got MBBS degree in 1988 from Liaquat Medical College, Jamshoro, Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration in 2004 from Institute of Business Administration, Karachi and MPA in Economics Policy Management with concentration in International Energy Management and Policy from Columbia University, New York. He was also awarded Hubert H. Humphery fellowship by US Department of State, in recognition of his leadership skills, under which he attended academic courses at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and the Duke University and did an internship at the World Bank.

During his career in Civil Services of Pakistan he has received extensive training at Civil Service Academy, Lahore, National School of Public Policy, Lahore, University of Birmingham, England and Joint Vienna Institute, Vienna, Austria.

Mr. Rajput’s core areas of expertise include Public Finance Management and Project Development and Management, particularly in Energy Sector. He has proven capacity to work in a challenging atmosphere with diversified stakeholders and against strict timelines. Mr.  Rajput’s key achievements include developing Thar Coal mining and power project, improving fiscal health of Government of Sindh through effective financial management and establishing a robust delivery and monitoring system at Chief Minister’s Secretariat in Sindh.