Yaseen Anwar (born March 31, 1951) is a Pakistani-American banker who had been the Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan from 20 October 2011 to 31 January 2014.

In 2020 he was the founding Chairman of Yaseen Anwar & Associates, a management consultancy based in Karachi, Pakistan.

[5] At the age of seven, his father was posted in Newport, Rhode Island to attend the Naval War College and thereafter as the Naval Attache in Washington D.C. until December 1964[6] when Yaseen attended the Rose Lee Hardy elementary School and was elected President of the Student Council.

Yaseen then attended Ascension Academy in Alexandria, Virginia until the ninth grade before moving back to Karachi where he joined the Karachi American School[7] His father, as the Naval Attache, was decorated with the Legion of Merit by the President of the United States for forging strong ties between the two countries.

In 1979, he was transferred to Bank of America Cairo as Assistant Manager and a senior lending officer for local and multinational businesses.

After leaving Merrill in London, he spent some time with Kraken, a boutique UK investment firm, where he structured M&A transactions in the Power Sector before joining the State Bank of Pakistan.

[13] Joining SBP in 2007, during his initial 4 years as Deputy Governor, he was tasked to upgrade the country's Payment System by establishing Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) that he successfully implemented in 2008.

[20] In 2021, he was also appointed by China as chairman of the first overseas chapter of Green Investment Principles for Central Asia & Pakistan in support of the Belt & Road Initiative.