Director Planning and Strategic Communications, Special Technology Zones Authority, Formerly: Founder and CEO at @Obortunity; Sponsor Director ICPECW at National Defence University; IVLP Fellow, Australian Awards Fellow Hamza Orakzai has had the privilege of working on numerous aspects of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, and the Belt and Road Initiative, since March 2014 after he joined Pakis
tan-China Institute when the project was just a mere proposition with nothing substantial to boast. From then on, he has been enraptured by the work and progress that has taken place and is now materializing at a swift pace. In October 2016, he bid farewell to the Institute as Head of Operations and ventured on to establish his own company, Obortunity Consulting (Pvt) Ltd., to identify and tap emerging opportunities in the fields of cultural integration, business consulting and technological sector under the purview of CPEC. Having been directly involved in the materialization of CPEC since the last 4 years, he had the chance to deal and negotiate with Chinese companies investing in Pakistan, their Pakistani counterparts, as well as the government entities and regulatory bodies involved from both countries, gathering a copious experience on both the commercial and non-commercial aspects of this mammoth of a project. On the commercial front, he has extensively worked on conducting investment analysis, political risk analysis, regulatory analysis, and lobbying, while on the non-commercial aspect, he has managed several
national and international CPEC conferences, and moderated CPEC roundtables and compiled material for official information portal on CPEC funded by the Chinese Embassy. Moreover, he has also been awarded a Research Fellowship at Australia National University on "CPEC and the rule of law" under Australia Awards sponsored by the Directorate of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Government of Australia. In Addition, he is also co-authoring a paper for the Center of Excellence, MoPnDR, on "Policy imperatives for industrial cooperation in North Pakistan under CPEC regime.
