Identity area

Reference code

WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-26

Title

Moeen Qureshi files

Date(s)

  • 1945 - 1993 (predominant 1979 - 1991) (Creation)

Level of description

Subfonds

Extent and medium

42.77 linear feet of textual records

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Name of creator

Individual Staff Members - Qureshi, Moeen

Biographical history

Moeenuddin (Moeen) Ahmad Qureshi was born in Lahore, Punjab, British India (now Punjab, Pakistan) in 1930. He received a Bachelor's of Arts (Honours) and a Master of Arts in economics from the University of Punjab. Qureshi also received a Ph.D. in economics from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

Prior to joining the World Bank, Qureshi was employed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in a variety of senior economic and operational adviser roles from 1958 to 1970. In 1970, Qureshi joined the WorldBank Group's International Finance Corporation (IFC), and served as an Economic Adviser until 1974. Qureshi's subsequent roles in the World Bank Group included:

  • Vice President, IFC, 1974-1977;

  • Executive Vice President, IFC, 1977-1979;

  • Executive Vice President, IFC, and Vice President Finance, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), 1979-1980;

  • Senior Vice President Finance, IBRD, and Executive Vice President, IFC, 1980-1981;

  • Senior Vice President, Finance (SVPFI), 1981-1987; and

  • Senior Vice President, Operations (SVPOP), 1987-1991.

In November 1991, Qureshi retired from the World Bank.

After his retirement from the World Bank, Qureshi co-founded the private equity firm Emerging Markets Partnership (now EMP Global LLC). From July to October 1993, Qureshi served as the interim Prime Minister of Pakistan. He then returned to the United States to continue as Chairman of EMP Global LLC. He died on November 22, 2016 at his home in Washington, D.C.

Repository

World Bank Group Archives

Archival history

The records described in this subfonds were transferred to the World Bank Group Archives from the Office of the Senior Vice President of Operations (OPNSV) in 1994 and 1995 using approved retention and disposition schedules. Included are records maintained by Qureshi in previous units prior to his work in OPNSV.

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Scope and content

The majority of the subfonds consists of records created and maintained by Moeen Qureshi from the start of his career at the World Bank Group's International Finance Corporation (IFC) to his retirement from the Bank in 1991. Although the subfonds is most voluminous for the period during which Qureshi was Senior Vice President for Operations from 1987 to 1991, it also contains records accumulated during his various positions at IFC beginning from 1972 through his tenure as Senior Vice President of Finance (SVPFI) from 1980 to 1987. Earlier reproductions of publications and other documents kept by Qureshi date from 1945. The fonds also contains Qureshi's collection of institutional circulars that were added to by the Archives up to 1993.

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Accruals are not expected.

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Conditions governing access

Records are subject to the World Bank Policy on Access to Information.

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Records are subject to the Copyright Policy of the World Bank Group.

Language of material

  • English

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    Related units of description

    • Records of the Chief Financial Officer (WB IBRD/IDA CFO).

    • Records of the Senior Vice President of Operations (WB IBRD/IDA WB_IBRD/IDA_106).

    • See Records of the Office of the Historian -- Records of the World Bank History Project -- Interviews (WB IBRD/IDA HIST-01-10) for the oral history interview of Moeen Qureshi conducted by authors of the Brooking Institute's History of the World Bank.

    • See oral history of Moeen Qureshi.

    • Personal Papers of Eugene H. Rotberg (WB IBRD/IDA ROTBERG).

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    Internal World Bank Group Archives rules based on ISAD(G).

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    Dates of creation revision deletion

    19 March 2015, 11 November 2025

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