The Executive Director of the Higher Education Commission serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the organization with the status of ex-officio Federal Secretary to the Government of Pakistan. He is the Principal Accounting Officer of the Commission...

The Member (Operations & Planning) of the HEC is assigned with the role of identifying and developing strategic plans for higher education reform, and ensuring the proper management and monitoring, utilization of funds, and physical progress of the programs of the Commission. The Member O&P also works closely with universities in the formulation of short as well as long-term development projects, and represents the Commission in various meetings of the Government (DDWP, CDWP, ECNEC and CCC) for the approval of schemes...

The Member Academics of the Higher Education Commission is Professor Dr Altaf Ali G. Shaikh. With an MSc in Electronics from the University of Sindh, Jamshoro, he completed an MSc in Nuclear Physics....

The Office of the Advisor QA & LI supervises the activities of both the Quality Assurance and Learning Innovation Departments of the Higher Education Commission. The QA & LI Division has four independent sections working together i.e. Quality Assurance, Learning Innovation, Accreditation & Attestation and Statistics. These sections in addition to other functions are also running development projects on Faculty Development, English Language Teaching Reforms, Quality Assurance Agency and the National Academy of Higher Education. The Division works in close collaboration with National Committee on Quality Assurance, National Committee on English and National Committee on Examination Systems. The focus of the Quality Assurance Department is to develop and implement quality enhancement, assurance and accreditation mechanisms at universities across the country, with the aim of achieving parity with international standards of quality in higher learning. The Quality Assurance program of the HEC essentially has three major components,

The office of the Advisor (Human Resource Development) supervises, manages and implements the programs of the Human Resource Division of the Higher Education Commission. This Division is primarily concerned with the development of human resources for institutions of higher studies, R&D bodies & other organizations through the implementation of a range of scholarship and fellowship programs. Other programs administered by the division include the Foreign Faculty Hiring Program, the Placement of Pakistani PhD from Abroad Program