Amer Zafar Durrani is the founder and President of Reenergia LLC, and a former WBG professional, with over 39+ years of experience spanning 26 countries. His areas of expertise include policy advisory on national and international issues, political economy, social impact advisory, blended finance, trade facilitation, Customs, energy, transport and logistics, infrastructure, climate change, disaster risk management, supply chain management, regional partnerships, security and justice, stakeholder outreach, special economic zones, and public works programs with a focus on community driven development and social protection—including disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration, integration of women and marginalized, climate change mitigation and adaptation, leveraging private finance, border areas management, FCV-DRM nexus, and more. He has extensive experience of leading global and local teams. He is a social entrepreneur —who has successfully created and operated and divested from several companies in multiple verticals including trade, transport and logistics, energy trade, ports-information technology (IT), incubation, and public policy consulting. His journey as an entrepreneur began in 2015 with co-founding Secur Global; one of the first 5PL companies in Pakistan which successfully spun-off Transconomy—an IT enabled logistics and transport initiative for the port community systems. Additionally, Amer co-founded Ideagist Pakistan, a virtual incubator, Reenergia LLC (Social Impact Advisory) and Paidartwanai (Sustainable Energy Studies and Provision). In 2022, he spearheaded the initiation development of the "Pakistan Green Transition Fund (PGTF)," a $100 million initiative jointly launched by Reenergia and Climate Change Ventures (UK). The same year he led a first of its kind study for decarbonisation, emission reduction, and pathways to help Pakistan achieve its NDCs—the White Paper on Transport Transition. Amer Zafar Durrani is the founder and President of Reenergia LLC, and a former WBG professional, with over 39+ years of experience spanning 26 countries. His areas of expertise include policy advisory on national and international issues, political economy, social impact advisory, blended finance, trade facilitation, Customs, energy, transport and logistics, infrastructure, climate change, disaster risk management, supply chain management, regional partnerships, security and justice, stakeholder outreach, special economic zones, and public works programs with a focus on community driven development and social protection—including disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration, integration of women and marginalized, climate change mitigation and adaptation, leveraging private finance, border areas management, FCV-DRM nexus, and more. He has extensive experience of leading global and local teams.
He is a social entrepreneur —who has successfully created and operated and divested from several companies in multiple verticals including trade, transport and logistics, energy trade, ports-information technology (IT), incubation, and public policy consulting. His journey as an entrepreneur began in 2015 with co-founding Secur Global; one of the first 5PL companies in Pakistan which successfully spun-off Transconomy—an IT enabled logistics and transport initiative for the port community systems. Additionally, Amer co-founded Ideagist Pakistan, a virtual incubator, Reenergia LLC (Social Impact Advisory) and Paidartwanai (Sustainable Energy Studies and Provision).
In 2022, he spearheaded the initiation development of the "Pakistan Green Transition Fund (PGTF)," a $100 million initiative jointly launched by Reenergia and Climate Change Ventures (UK). The same year he led a first of its kind study for decarbonisation, emission reduction, and pathways to help Pakistan achieve its NDCs—the White Paper on Transport Transition.
He has extensive experience of working in regions with fragility, conflict, and violence—Afghanistan, Somalia, South Sudan, and Global. In 2024 he led the EU mission on delivering a strategy for the Humanitarian-Peace-Development Nexus for all EU and bilateral EU MS’s assistance to Pakistan till 2007. In 2019-2022 he led the WBG study on developing an FCV-DRM nexus toolkit for global operations—for GFDRR.  2017-18 he led the work on Afghan refugee returnees to Afghanistan and their intrinsic economic value, for WBG. Amer has been involved in designing and implementing projects and programs in the erstwhile FATA and PATA areas since 1990s with a specific focus on the border areas with Afghanistan post 9/11. He also delivered many projects and studies in Afghanistan, post 9/11, during his work for the WBG. With his strong writing and analytical skills, he has produced numerous studies, synthesis reports, desk reviews, policy documents, position papers, and articles in peer reviewed journals.