Masood Ul Mulk

Masood Ul Mulk
Born	1 May 1956
Nationality	Pakistani
Occupation	CEO of the Sarhad Rural Support Programme
Known for	Humanitarian Work Social Development Poverty Reduction Participatory Development Rural Development
Board member of	AKH Resource Center RSPN National Committee of IUCN Langlands School USEFP Micro Finance Network (PK) INAFI Asia and others

Masood Ul Mulk (Urdu: مسود الملک) is a leading Pakistani expert on humanitarian aid and a renowned development practitioner. He is the CEO of SRSP, the largest NGO working to alleviate poverty in north-west Pakistan.

Masood hails from Chitral, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He is the son of Shahzada Khush Ahmed Ul Mulk and the grandson of H.H Sir Shuja Ul Mulk, the former ruler/mehtar of the princely state of Chitral. Masood is the son in law of veteran politician Shahzada Mohiuddin.

Masood pursued academic studies and professional courses from Lawrence College, Wye College, University of York, American University, the World Bank and IMF, Washington. He has also been a Hubert Humphrey Fellow at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, US.

Masood has served in the development field for over 20 years. While serving as the Regional Programme Manager for the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) in Chitral his developmental work for the area manifested in social organization, women’s development, natural resource management, physical infrastructure development, human resource development, enterprise promotion, and provision of credit and savings services. He also introduced a micro-hydro power system that supplied electricity to about 175,000 people in over 110 villages, and won the organisation an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy (2004). The power house unit's supplied electricity to inaccessible high altitude valleys in the Hindu Kush where the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) would take another 50 years to put the basic infrastructure in place.

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