Mr. Osman Saifullah Khan was appointed as Director of Saif Holdings Limited in 2016. Osman Khan currently serves as the Vice Chairman of the Saif Group, a diversified industrial and services conglomerate headquartered in Islamabad. Mr. Khan joined the Saif Group in 1995, and has held a variety of strategic and operating roles with the Group since that time. He serves as the Chairman of Saif Holding Ltd, the Group’s holding company, as well as of the Group’s textile manufacturing businesses. Mr. Khan is the founder of the Mediterranean Textile Company Egypt’s largest exporter of premium yarn. Osman Khan is also a Director of Skyelectric Pvt. Ltd, Pakistan’s fastest growing solar company. Mr. Khan has remained on the Board of Pakistan State Oil (PSO). He is associated with various industry advocacy platforms and is a member of the Pakistan Business Council (PBC).
He has served on the Advisory Committee to the Planning Commission of Pakistan, served as a member of the Policy Board of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) and is also an Advisor to the President, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences (GIKI). Osman Khan is founder of the Wadaan Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that focuses on water, health and education issues in the southern districts of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. Osman Saifullah Khan was elected unopposed to the Senate of Pakistan in March 2012 for a six-year term and represented the Federal Capital Islamabad. He was Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Science & Technology and a member of the Senate Special Committee on China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
He also served on three other Senate Committees: Finance, Information Technology & Telecommunications, and Rules & Privileges.
Senator Khan was the mover of the private member’s bill, the Domestic Workers (Employment Rights) Bill 2015, passed by the Senate on March 7th, 2016. His term in the Senate ended in March of 2018. Osman Khan has a Master’s degree in Engineering, Economics and Management from Christ Church, University of Oxford (1995), where he was a Britannia Scholar and a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University (2009).