Khalil Hamdani has been involved in multilateral economic cooperation for more than three decades. He has held a variety of managerial, technical and policy positions in the United Nations, and was the Director of the Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development. His areas of interest are foreign direct investment, international trade and globalization. Currently, he is a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies at the Lahore School of Economics. He has also been affiliated with the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics.

Dr. Hamdani is a graduate of Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University, and has a PhD in Economics.