Sadia Khan is a seasoned governance professional and international finance executive with over three decades of experience across investment banking, development finance, financial regulation, and entrepreneurship. She has worked in leadership roles across Asia, Europe, and North America, bringing a global perspective to corporate oversight and board stewardship.
She previously served as Commissioner of the Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) from 2020 to 2023, becoming the first woman to hold this position. Prior to that, she was President & CEO of the Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance (PICG), where she played a central role in strengthening governance standards in Pakistan’s corporate sector.
Sadia began her career at Lehman Brothers in New York and has since worked with leading institutions including the Asian Development Bank in Manila, the State Bank of Pakistan, and earlier tenures at the SECP. She holds master’s degrees in economics from Cambridge University and Yale University, and an MBA from INSEAD.
A long‑standing advocate of corporate governance, she has served as an independent director on numerous boards and authored Corporate Governance Landscape of Pakistan, published by Oxford University Press in 2017. Her contributions have been recognized internationally: she was awarded the French Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite in 2014, received the International Directors Network (IDN) Good Governance Award in 2021, and was honored with INSEAD’s Volunteer Leaders Award in 2023. INSEAD also published a case study on her leadership as Global President of the INSEAD Alumni Association in 2021.
Sadia is currently based in Dubai, where she pursues a portfolio career as an educator and governance advisor with a strong focus on sustainability.
