Academics: Mr. Qazi has a diverse academic background, with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering (cum laude) from the NWFP UET in Peshawar and a dual Master's degree from the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg in Information and Communication Systems and an executive MBA in Technology Management (cum laude) from the Northern Institute of Technology. He also holds a 1-year diploma in Computer Sciences (cum laude) from the NWFP Board of Technical Education. 

Scholarships: Mr. Qazi has been receiving scholarships and stipends throughout his professional education as a result of his outstanding academic performance. He received a stipend from the local government for his 4 years engineering degree. His studies at the TUHH/NITHH were fully sponsored by Siemens. He was also part of the prestigious Siemens Student Program during this period which in addition to bearing the tuition fee not only provided him with a stipend and on-campus accommodation, but also arranged and paid for various EU-wide seminars, trainings and events. The Pakistani education ministry nominated him for a Common Wealth doctoral scholarship to study in UK based on his performance in a nationwide GRE test where he achieved a 99 percentile score. His studies at the UNU-MERIT are also fully sponsored.

Work experience: Mr. Qazi got his first job exposure while working as a research assistant in the German Aerospace Center in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany on the european GPS project 'Galileo' in 1999. He has worked on 3G mobile phone technology for Siemens in 2000. He completed his master's thesis while working on a 6-month project of IBM SerCon in Mainz, Germany in 2001. Furthemore Mr. Qazi worked for Philips Semiconductors as a System Marketing engineer and for Philips Medical Systems as Program Manager for Medical IT in the EMEA region while being based in Germany and the Netherlands. After several years of MNC experience Mr. Qazi wanted to directly contribute to the issues faced by developing countries. He moved back to Pakistan and started imparting the same knowledge and skills which he had acquired while studying and working in the West. He worked as an Assistant Professor at the privately run engineering university, CECOS and two years later assumed responsibility as the Chairman of Computer System Engineering department at the Peshawar College of Engineering. His interest in economic issues and technology transfer to developing countries got intensified while teaching Engineering Economics and Management for Engineers both at Peshawar College of Engineering and as visiting faculty at the NWFP UET, Peshawar. It was at this stage that he made up his mind to further pursue this objective by getting enrolled in a PhD program in an institute of international repute in the subject.

Entrepreneurial activities: Mr. Qazi has successfully ventured several startup firms during his studies and also while working. PrintWorks was a desktop publishing and printing services firm which he co-founded and ran during 1994-97. Cosmo Computer Works, a hardware sales and services company which he co-founded in 1997 is still operational. KTC-International, co-founded in 2005, was an Import/Export venture which imported customized MP4 players/digital cameras from China for the German market and exported used IT equipment to Pakistan. KTC also explored trading opportunities of Sri Lankan tea together with Meezan Group of Industries. Mr. Qazi's commitment to development studies only further resolved after his firsthand interaction with poor communities in China and Sri Lanka while on business visits.

Mr. Qazi is fluent in German, English, Urdu and Pashto, and has basic knowledge of Dutch and Arabic.