Mr. Muhammad Umer Farooq

Mr. Muhammad Umer Farooq is a graduate of Accounting from Louisiana Tech, USA and started his career as a Public Accountant in USA. He worked at prestigious multinational companies in the United States for 10 years such as Walmart, Citigroup and Subway before he returned to Pakistan to serve his country. He has held senior appointments at Riphah International University, Islamabad as the Registrar, Director Student Services and Director Finance during his five year tenure at Islamabad. He was assigned the task of establishing Riphah International University’s Lahore Campus in 2012 and, hence has been serving as the Regional Director of Riphah at Lahore since then.
Under his able leadership, during 8 years, Riphah has established multiple state-of-the-art campuses in Lahore. Each campus offers a wide variety of degree programs for thousands of students serving the educational needs of the central and Southern Punjab Regions.
Among his many initiatives is the newly launched Max Education Services (SMC) pvt ltd, where he is the founding CEO. This new company has recently launched a network of Riphah International Colleges throughout Pakistan and is poised to bring innovation and cutting edge training programs to uplift the education sector of our nation.