Syed Ayub Qutub joined the DIL team, as a member of the Advisory Board, in the year 2001. He brings to this voluntary forum more than three decades of experience in environment conservation, sustainable development, and urban and regional planning. Ayub Qutub specializes in strategy and program formulation, policy advice, leadership of multi-disciplinary teams, and in facilitating public meetings and expert workshops. As a Founder-Member and currently President of PIEDER, a not-for-profit institution registered for demonstrating alternative approaches to issues of environment and development, he is involved in environmental action research with grass root organizations in villages and urban communities in Punjab, NWFP and Balochistan, Pakistan.
Prior to this, Syed Ayub Qutub was the Co-ordinator and Principal Writer of Pakistan's National Conservation Strategy (NCS). Facilitating provincial workshops and sector conferences, conducting public hearings and village meetings and developing strategic programs were just some of the responsibilities undertaken by him.
In 1971, Syed Ayub Qutub graduated from Cambridge University, U.K., where he received his M.A. in Geography Tripos, after which he worked as a Manager for Development Planning Unit, PEPAC, Lahore, Pakistan. Here he was responsible for planning and designing several urban and regional development projects in different regions of the country, and for their quality assurance. Syed Ayub Qutub has worked as a senior consultant in Mid-East countries, undertaken assignments for the ADB, CIDA, the Netherlands Government, UNATI, UNCHS, UNEP, UNESCAP and the World Bank, and has published several papers on environment, population, and urbanisation in reputed international journals. He represented Pakistan at the 11th Plenary of the Inter-Government Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Rome, 1995.
