Hassan Raza Syed
Mr. Hassan Raza Syed is a businessman by profession but now devotes most of his time to social work.
He was involved in sponsoring and implementing various pioneering industrial projects in Pakistan.
He held various advisory positions including Mitsui Europe, and others.
For several years he was based in Silicon Valley U.S.A. and worked for Fairchild semiconductors and Intel Corporations in various technical and managerial positions. During this time he was awarded a patent in 1977 for the innovation of a unique architecture of “High Gain High Voltage Transistor for Linear Integrated Circuits” (U.S. Patent No. 4047217).
He is a graduate of California State University and of the Advanced Management Program of Harvard Business School.
He is a director of Taaleem Foundation which is imparting quality education to over 10,000 children in the far-flung and underdeveloped areas like Kohlu, Loralai, Mastung, Zhob, Muslim Bagh, Pishin, Sui besides managing educational, technical, and vocational institutions in less privileged areas of AJK, Sindh, Punjab and Baluchistan.
He is also a member of the Governing Body of Sir Syed Memorial Society which was almost on the verge of insolvency when the present Governing Body was elected and turned it around financially and organizationally into a sustainable and viable Social Welfare Organisation.
He is a member of Board of Governors, Pakistan National Council of Arts.
He is also a member of Harvard Club of Pakistan and Harvard Business School Club of Pakistan.
With the help of young lawyers from LUMS and members of the Harvard Club of Pakistan he provided support to the petitions for defeating delays in civil cases, and also led talks with the Law Ministry that resulted in the first comprehensive amendments to the Code of Civil Procedure 1908 in Pakistan to ensure that civil suits are decided expeditiously. These amendments were later overturned due to certain clauses which entailed cumbersome processes.
To defeat delays in civil litigations a petition in his name, to be argued by him, is pending before the Supreme Court of Pakistan.