Brief Profile

Chaudhry Faisal Mushtaq is a Pakistani academic, school practitioner and former caretaker provincial minister for education of the Punjab. He is the founder and chief executive officer of Roots Millennium Schools, Pakistan and is the executive director and member of the board of directors of the Roots School System.

He is recognized as one of the 500 most influential Muslims of the world for the last three consecutive years, a Young Presidents’ Organization Board member, World Wide Fund for Nature Member of the Board of Governors Pakistan, Cadet College Hasanabdal Member of the Board of Governors and the Chairman of the China Radio International Roots Confucius Classroom Project in Pakistan. Faisal is also the founder and CEO of a non-profit organization ‘Change – in Education Foundation’ working in support of ‘Public Private Partnerships’ across education and thus scaling Millennium Development Goals and so far he has successfully reformed more than 250 government schools across various districts, provinces and rural communities in Pakistan.

Faisal has been conferred with the fourth-highest National Civil Award of Pakistan, the ‘Tamgha-e-Imtiaz‘, by the President of Pakistan on Pakistan Day Ceremony held at the Presidency on 23 March 2013 in recognition of his outstanding services in the field of language promotion, education, literacy, youth and advocacy.