Humayun Khan (diplomat)

Humayun Khan (born 1932) is a former Ambassador,Foreign Secretary,High Commissioner from Pakistan to India and United Kingdom. Presently he is serving as the Chairman of Institute of Rural Management (IRM).

He hails from Mardan District, North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. He is the son of the late K.B. Mohd. Safdar Khan of Amazo Garhi, former Distt & Sessions Judge, Peshawar and Begum Mumtaz Safdar, former Member of the West Pakistan Assembly. He is married to the grand daughter of the late Qazi Ataullah (Munawar Humayun), former Minister in the Cabinets of Dr. Khan Sahib before the independence of Pakistan in 1947. One of her aunts was married to Abdul Ali Khan, youngest son of Bāchā Khān.

Khan was educated at the prestigious Bishop Cotton School in Simla, India and later at Edwardes College Peshawar and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He holds an honours degree and an MA from Cambridge University. He was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn, London in 1954. Later, he earned another MA and a Doctorate from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.