Mr. Muhammad Ali Farid Khwaja is the Commissioner Securities Market Division of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), the apex regulator of Pakistan’s capital markets, corporate sector, insurance, non-banking financial companies, and private pensions.
Muhammad Ali Farid Khwaja has over twenty years of experience in global financial markets as an investor, entrepreneur, and investment banker. Prior to joining SECP, he was the CEO of a mining company listed on the London Stock Exchange. He co-founded Oxford Frontier Capital, an investment firm based in London with investments across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Pakistan.
Ali has won various awards from bodies such as the CFA Society Pakistan, Asia Money, TIM, and Thomson Reuters. He was selected for the Pride of Pakistan Award by ISPR and is a recipient of the LUMS Alumni Achievement Award.
Ali holds an MSc in Financial Economics from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He completed a Double Major in Economics and Computer Science from LUMS and graduated with Distinction.
