Imtiaz Gilani was Minister for Education, Information, Youth, Tourism and Culture (1999-2003) and acting executive director of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan (2012 - 2013).
Imtiaz Gilani was born on 27 December 1947, in the small town Kohat to a Syed family.
[citation needed] His early years were spent studying in St. Joseph's Convent School, Kohat and from 1959 to 1964 in Cadet College, Hasanabdal.
From 1973- 1981 he worked as a project engineer at Sverdrup and Parcel, Inc., Consulting Engineers (New York, USA) where his principal area of concentration included designing and supervision of mass transit facilities such as subways, subway stations and mono-rail systems.
Imtiaz Gilani is also the managing director of Ambar Prefab (Pvt) from 1981 on.