Mr. Jawwad Ahmed Cheema

Mr. Jawwad Ahmed Cheema is a distinguished C-suite executive with over 28 years of experience in the downstream energy sector, including nearly 20 years in corporate leadership roles spanning five countries across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and South Asia. His career covers the full downstream value chain retail fuels, lubricants, storage infrastructure, supply chain management, strategy, and international portfolio management with a consistent thread of strategic transformation, business turnaround, and large-scale organisational change running through every assignment.

The centrepiece of his career is a 26-year tenure with Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world's largest energy majors, during which he rose from frontline retail operations in Pakistan to the most senior levels of Shell's global leadership progressing through Indonesia, Singapore, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, each assignment representing a substantive expansion of scope, complexity, and accountability.

As Managing Director & CEO of Shell Pakistan Limited, he led one of Pakistan's most prominent publicly listed energy companies through a period of significant strategic and operational transformation in one of the region's most complex and fast-evolving energy markets.

Internationally, as Vice President Strategy & Portfolio at Shell International B.V., The Hague, he directed global downstream infrastructure portfolio strategy across multiple continents, delivering significant enterprise value through network optimisation, asset rationalisation, and supply chain reconfiguration. As Vice President Shell Business Operations in Singapore, he transformed Shell's global Business Process Outsourcing function, driving large-scale workforce expansion and operational consolidation across a global network. Earlier, as Strategy & Management Consultancy Manager, he led business turnarounds, divestments, new market entries, and integrated downstream reviews across Asia-Pacific. As General Manager for Shell's Retail Fuels Market Entry in Indonesia, he led the company's end-to-end entry into a complex, high-growth emerging market.

Most recently, he served as CEO of Karachi Hydrocarbon Terminal (KHT), a strategic joint venture under the VTTI B.V. portfolio, managing Pakistan's primary petroleum import and distribution terminal at Port Qasim.

Across every role, Mr. Cheema has demonstrated a rare combination of commercial sharpness, strategic clarity, and the operational discipline to execute at scale in some of the most complex, regulated, and politically sensitive energy environments in the world. As Chairman of the Board of Shell Pakistan Limited and Director on the Boards of Pakistan Refinery Limited (PRL) and Pakistan Arab Pipeline Company (PAPCO), he has exercised governance authority over the most strategically significant nodes of Pakistan's downstream infrastructure. He is, in the fullest sense, a leader shaped by global standards and deeply rooted in Pakistan's energy reality.