Ahmed Rafay Alam Pakistan
Ahmad Rafay Alam is a Pakistani environmental lawyer and
activist. He is a founding partner of Saleem, Alam & Co., a firm that specializes in the energy,
water, natural resources, and urban
infrastructure sectors. As one of Pakistan’s leading
environment lawyers, Rafay regularly advises the federal and provincial
governments, INGOs and NOGs on issues of policy and strategy in these sectors,
and he provides corporate clients strategic sustainability insights. Familiar with how government functions in Pakistan, Rafay has served as
Chairman of the Board of two public sector utilities: the Lahore Electric
Supply Company and the Lahore Waste Management
Company; and as founding Vice-President of the Urban
Unit he oversaw
the growth of the Punjab’s
only public sector urban think-tank. Rafay has also served as a Member of the
Pakistan Climate Change Council and the Punjab Environment Protection Council
and currently serves a Member of the Hisaar Foundation’s Tank on the Rational
Use of Water, and as Advisor to Air Quality
Asia. He is a passionate advocate for climate action, air quality
improvement, and food sovereignty, and he works with a number of local, regional
and international civil society organizations to carry this agenda
forward. In September 2019, he and his family
helped organize #ClimateStrike
marches in over 45
cities throughout Pakistan.