Engineering & project management
Experience with equipment, contracts, interfaces, schedules, suppliers, commissioning, governance and project controls informs SustainStrat's project and PMO work.
About SustainStrat
We help clients move from analysis to action.
SustainStrat works on problems that rarely sit inside one discipline. Strategy may depend on project delivery. Policy may depend on procurement, data or institutional capacity. We bring those pieces together around the assignment.
Experience behind SustainStrat
17+years of professional experience
25+projects and assignments
30+publications and knowledge products
500+professionals trained or engaged
What clients get
One senior lead stays accountable for the whole assignment.
SustainStrat works best where strategy, projects, policy, evidence, sustainability or technology overlap. The core work stays founder-led, with specialists added where the assignment needs them.
Policy, markets & reform
Work across trade, taxation, investment climate, public-private dialogue and economic reform expanded the focus from individual projects to the institutions and incentives around them.
Sustainability & energy
Renewables, electricity-market reform, green recovery and clean-energy work require technology, regulation, finance, infrastructure and skills to be considered together.
Research, teaching & professional learning
Research, curriculum development, mentoring and professional learning reinforce the practice of translating concepts into tools, decisions and institutional capability.
Strategic Advisory Council
Independent perspective around SustainStrat's core practice areas.
The Council provides non-executive strategic guidance to SustainStrat Analytics across policy, project governance, sustainability and private-sector development. Members serve in their individual professional capacities.
Chair, Strategic Advisory Council
Dr. Vaqar Ahmed
Economic Policy, Institutional Reform & International Development
Public finance economist and senior policy adviser
Dr. Vaqar Ahmed is an economist and public-policy specialist whose work spans public finance, tax and trade reform, private-sector competitiveness and institutional reform. He has led and advised programmes involving governments and international development institutions, including the World Bank, UNDP and ADB, and has held senior advisory roles with Oxford Policy Management.
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Member, Strategic Advisory Council
Prof. Dr. Riaz Ahmed
Strategy Execution, Project & Programme Governance
Senior Professor & Head, Project Management & Supply Chain Management, Bahria University
Prof. Dr. Riaz Ahmed is a project-management academic and practitioner with expertise in project leadership, top management, governance, leadership competencies and supply-chain management. His academic and professional work strengthens SustainStrat's focus on strategy execution, programme governance and institutional delivery capability.
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Member, Strategic Advisory Council
Dr. Hina Aslam
Sustainability, Climate & Circular Economy
Andre Hoffmann Research Fellow, Australian National University & World Economic Forum
Dr. Hina Aslam is a sustainability and circular-economy specialist whose work spans climate policy, environmental management, industrial decarbonisation and circular-economy regulation. Her research and advisory work connects evidence, regulation and implementation across emerging green-transition challenges.
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Member, Strategic Advisory Council
Faraz Khan MBE
Entrepreneurship, Impact Investment & Private-Sector Development
Founder & Director, SEED Ventures
Faraz Khan MBE is an entrepreneur, impact-investment specialist and sustainability strategist with more than 25 years of experience across enterprise development, ESG, investment and cross-sector partnerships. His work spans impact investment, social enterprise, blended finance, entrepreneurship ecosystems and private-sector approaches to sustainable development.
LinkedIn profile →Advisory capacity: Strategic Advisory Council members serve in their individual professional capacities. Membership is non-executive and non-statutory and does not constitute employment, directorship or endorsement of SustainStrat Analytics by any organisation with which a member is affiliated.
Selected SustainStrat work
Current work led by SustainStrat.
The work below was undertaken by SustainStrat. Earlier professional experience is shown separately.
Public Health Science & Technology Park
A cross-disciplinary institution-building assignment spanning strategy, governance, operating model, research commercialisation, executive education, innovation and incubation, private-sector engagement, partnerships, revenue pathways and phased implementation.
The work focuses on practical operating questions: what the institution should offer, who decides what, which services are viable, how revenue can be generated, how partnerships should work, what should happen first and how performance should be managed.
Related capability: science & technology consulting →Governance, roles and phased mobilisation
Turning institutional ambition into an operating sequence that can be staffed, governed, financed and managed.
Revenue options and partnership models
Connecting public mission to credible partnership, executive-learning and commercial models.
Turning research into programmes and partnerships
Designing routes from knowledge and capability to programmes, ventures and external partnerships.
Professional background
Experience that informs the firm’s work.
These examples come from the founder’s wider professional experience and help explain the perspective SustainStrat brings to current assignments.
Economic governance & investment climate
Think-tank networks, business-climate research, stakeholder consultation, private-sector dialogue and evidence for reform.
Project delivery & public procurement
Project management, procurement planning, contract and delivery issues, governance and professional capability.
Energy transition & climate
Electricity-market reform, renewables, green recovery, transition choices and renewable-energy entrepreneurship.
Research & policy analysis
Macroeconomic, welfare, institutional, trade and competitiveness analysis linking technical choices to implementation consequences.
Innovation & entrepreneurship
Startup mentoring, hackathon judging, business models, feasibility, commercialisation and ecosystem capability.
Executive learning
Teaching, training, curriculum design and applied professional learning across project management, procurement, sustainability and related areas.
Specialist capability when required
Founder-led, with specialists added where the work needs them.
SustainStrat can draw on collaborators in sustainability, engineering, construction, water and institutional development. Current collaborators include VerdeSync, Capital Engineering Services, Dimensions Construction and WATPRO Consultants.
Strategy & institutionsProjects & engineeringResearch & analyticsSustainability & climateInnovation & commercialisationExecutive learning
Corporate credentials
SustainStrat Analytics (SMC-Private) Limited
Founder-led management consulting firm incorporated in Pakistan and based in Islamabad.
Incorporated1 April 2026
Legal formSingle Member Private Limited Company
LocationIslamabad, Pakistan
Core businessConsultancy, strategy, project management, institutional development and capacity building
Privacy & website terms
Privacy and website terms.
These provisions apply to website inquiries, programme registrations and general use of SustainStrat's public website.
Privacy notice
Last updated: 31 August 2026. SustainStrat Analytics (SMC-Private) Limited is responsible for personal information submitted through this website.
Information collected
Website inquiries may include name, email and message content. Learning registrations may also include mobile/WhatsApp number, country, time zone, organisation, designation, experience level, sponsorship route and learning or project context. Website analytics may include page visits, device/browser information, referral or campaign information and interaction data.
How information is used
Information is used to review and respond to inquiries, assess potential assignments, administer programme registrations, communicate enrolment steps and improve the website. SustainStrat currently uses Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity and website-platform analytics. Form-field contents are not intentionally sent to analytics tools.
Handling, sharing and retention
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Website terms
This website provides general information about SustainStrat's advisory capabilities, work, learning programmes and insights. Website content does not by itself constitute a consulting engagement, professional opinion, legal advice, financial advice, engineering certification or another regulated professional service.
No client-consultant relationship is created merely by visiting the website, sending an inquiry or receiving an initial response. An assignment begins only when the relevant parties agree the applicable scope, responsibilities and commercial or contractual terms.
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AI-assisted content and illustrations
SustainStrat uses AI-assisted tools to support drafting, editing, website development and illustrative graphics. Published content is reviewed and approved by SustainStrat, which remains responsible for what appears on this website. Illustrative or AI-assisted visuals are not photographs of actual projects, facilities or equipment unless clearly identified as such.
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