Shahid Javed Burki (Urdu: شاہد جاوید برکی) (born 1938) is a Pakistani-American professional economist who has served as Vice President of the World Bank and as de facto Finance Minister of Pakistan on a caretaker basis.
The following year he was chosen as a Rhodes Scholar from Pakistan and went to Christ Church, Oxford to study economics.
He received his MA from Oxford in 1963 and then went to Harvard University as a Mason Fellow for graduate studies in Economics and Public Administration.
Other publications on development include: A Study of Chinese Communes (1969, Harvard University Press); First Things First (with Paul Streeten, 1981, Oxford University Press); and Transforming Socialist Economies: Lessons from Cuba and Beyond (edited, with Daniel P. Erikson, 2005, Palgrave Macmillan).
[3] In the past, Burki has written opinion pieces for a Pakistani newspaper (Dawn).