Pervez Said Ex-Director Islamic Banking Division, State Bank of Pakistan has Appointed as President of Dawood Islamic Bank, according to True Banking correspondent,  Pervez said was set to taken over the charge from Mr. Rashid Rahman (the acting President) somewhere the end of October, 2009. Mr. Rashid Rahman is proceeding to MCB as head of Islamic Banking Division.  

Pervez Said has a MBA from Ohio University, USA. His overall work experience is spread over 25 years evenly split between businesses and banking. He has rich business experience working for various multi-nationals such as Johnson & Johnson, where he was the Managing Director for Pakistan. He has also worked for Reckitt & Colman, Unilever and Exxon Chemicals.

 He started his banking career with Citibank Pakistan in conventional banking. He moved out of conventional banking into Islamic banking for reasons of conviction. He has worked on Islamic Banking with Citibank, Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) and MashreqBank in the UAE.banking experience. He is the pioneer to establish Islamic Banking Department with State Bank of Pakistan from scratch level..