Khalid has over 25 years of Policy, Project Management, and public sector development experience. He has worked in setting up Project Management Offices, project management services, policy preparation in the public and private sectors.

He has managed large scale projects and introduced Earned value project management in large-scale public-sector projects and served as the first Director General for the Directorate General Monitoring & Evaluation in the Planning & Development Department (Punjab Government) as well as a member of the Planning & Development Board.

Khalid spearheaded PMO model for public sector projects and with this model several PMOs were set to manage a portfolio of infrastructure and reform projects worth over US$ 3 billion. In the area of development strategy, he has worked as a consultant with the World Bank on risk assessment and project performance measurement on the Bank’s portfolio in Pakistan.

He is the author of Punjab Consultant Selection Guidelines (Sept 2006) a document that has been praised by the World Bank and FIDIC as a model for the region – this document introduced the concept of value-based selection instead of least cost selection.

Khalid is an active member of the Project Management community and is the founding President of the Project Management Institute’s Lahore Chapter. He is active in project management research with a focus on public sector projects. He has read papers on Project Management at IRNOP, Global Congresses, contributed to PMI standards on Project Management (PMBOK 4th and 5th editions), Portfolio Management, Project Management Book of Knowledge Extension for Government and served on the Global Advisory Council of the College of Performance Measurement.

Khalid is a Professor of Project Management at Riphah International University and a visiting faculty and Ph.D. Supervisor at SKEMA Business School (France).

Khalid holds a Ph.D. in Strategy, Program and Project Management from SKEMA (France), MS in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University (USA).