Mustafa Hyder Sayed is the Executive Director of the Pakistan-China Institute, a leading organization in Pakistan-China bilateral relations focusing on areas including diplomacy, BRI, and energy. He is also the Executive Director of Action for Climate Change, promoting environmentally friendly decisions. In 2024, he co-founded the Green Energy Network – Asia (GEN-A) in collaboration with Griffith Asia Institute and Institute of Essentials Reforms & Services to accelerate the green energy transition in Asia.
Mr. Sayed also serves as Vice Chairman of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) Youth Wing. He is significantly involved with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), having co-founded the Green CPEC Alliance in 2021 and serving as inaugural advisor of the BRI Green and Low-Carbon Expert Network (GLEN) to the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China since 2024. He was also an International Advisor to the BRI International Green Development Coalition of China. He has attended all the three Belt and Road Forums held in 2017, 2019, and 2023 respectively in which he made a speech at the High-level Forum on Green Development themed “Green Silk Road for Harmony with Nature”. Moreover, he also participated in Wilton Park’s Conference themed ‘China’s Belt and Road Initiative: supporting sustainable development through high quality infrastructure’ in March 2019 and another Conference themed ‘BRI Investment in the Energy Sector: framing sustainable policy solutions for the post-COVID world’ in September 2020.
He was a keynote speaker at COP28 in Dubai, discussing the green transition and the regenerative economy. He also delivered a Ted Talk on Pakistan’s role in Globalisation. He has authored multiple publications regarding the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor in leading journals and think tanks like IDS Bulletin, RAND corporation, and Journal of Infrastructure Policy and Development.
Mr. Sayed has received a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, New York. He had also been selected by China for Peking University’s Dongfang Scholarship on Governance and previously attended a Prestigious National Security Workshop at Pakistan’s National Defence University.