DR. RIZWAN NASEER
Sitara-e-Imtiaz
Founder Director General,
Punjab Emergency Services.
Dr. Rizwan Naseer, initiated the emergency services reforms in Pakistan and is the Founder of Rescue 1122 - Emergency
Management System, which is a model for the SAARC countries. He also established and is serving as the Director
General/ CEO of the first modern Emergency Ambulance, Rescue & Fire services, Disaster Response Teams and Community
Safety Program functional in all 36 Districts of Punjab province with a population of over 110 million. He also
established the Emergency Services Academy to ensure sustainable human resource development of long neglected
emergency services in Pakistan.
He was able to achieve all this due to his vast experience in the field of Emergency Management, Organizational
Development & Reforms in Pakistan. He initiated the Emergency Preparedness & Disaster Management Program in Punjab
in 1999, and then finalized the Emergency Services Reforms in Pakistan in 2002, while working as the Representative
of the National Task Force for Revamping of Civil Defence for the Interior Ministry of Pakistan. He has also served
as the UNDP Consultant and then National Coordinator for Emergency Preparedness & Humanitarian Action Program of
WHO & Health Ministry of Pakistan and the Secretary General, Pakistan Red Crescent.
Apart from drafting the Punjab Emergency Service Act 2006, the Fire Prevention & Community Safety legislation,
he has drafted several disaster management plans and has several publications in local and international journals.
He is also the author of the books on Principles of First Aid & Disaster Management and the National Report for
UNDP & the Interior Ministry of Pakistan on Emergency Relief Services in Pakistan.
He has represented Pakistan, internationally at the Red Cross General Assemblies and United Nations Humanitarian
Networks & Partnership Meetings in Geneva and International Safe Communities Conferences. In recognition of his
services he has received several awards, including the national award of Sitara-i-Imtiaz conferred upon him by the
Government of Pakistan.
After establishing the emergency response system in Pakistan, he is now working for the establishment of Safe Communities in Pakistan.