Samson Simon Sharaf is a retired officer in the Pakistan Army and a political economist.

Despite being qualified in security and nuclear strategy, he prefers to call himself a political economist: the role of a modern strategist.

He also established his water treatment business on lines of Corporate Social Responsibility in cooperation with Nestle Pakistan.

Most significant is removal of arsenic from drinking water in cooperation with his partners GEH Wasserchemie Germany.

Since retirement he became an active member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and served in Shadow Cabinet as the Spokesperson for Defense Production, Adviser to Chairman Imran Khan, member of Constitution Committee and Deputy Chairman of the party's Election Commission.

The Election Commission since defunct was a state of the art computerized system connecting to each party member at grass roots.

In 2005, the President of Pakistan conferred awards on Independence Day to the officers of the armed forces in Rawalpindi.

In 1982 he was part of the Swiss French Mountaineering Expedition that summitted Gashebrum 1, Hidden Peak 8068 M in the Korakoram Range Pakistan.