Nasir Mahmood Khosa is a retired Pakistani civil servant from Dera Ghazi Khan who belonged to the Pakistan Administrative Service and served in BPS-22 grade, the highest attainable rank for a serving officer.

[1] Khosa has an outstanding civil service record, having held the most coveted bureaucratic assignments in the country.

Khosa also served as executive director at the World Bank from 2013-2017.

[3] On 28 May 2018, Khosa was nominated to become the caretaker Chief Minister of Punjab ahead of the 2018 general elections.

[4] He was nominated by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to which Shehbaz Sharif agreed but PTI withdrew his name on 30 May 2018,[5] followed by Khosa opting out and excusing himself from assuming the responsibilities of caretaker chief minister.