Sadaf Saeed
Nation/Region-nominated Member
Pakistan
Name: Sadaf Saeed
Position: Chief Engineer, NESPAK, Lahore / General Secretary, PGES
Birthdate: December 1982
Email: sadaf.saeed@
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Sadaf Saeed is a Chief Engineer in the Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Division of National Engineering Services Pakistan (NESPAK), Lahore, where she has worked for 22 years. She obtained her B.Sc. (Hons.) in Civil Engineering, winning the S.M. Akram Gold Medal, and her M.Sc. in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore. Her work covers deep foundations, deep excavation support, slope stability, liquefaction and site characterisation.
She has led the geotechnical design of several of Pakistan's major infrastructure projects, including the Lahore Orange Line Metro Train, the Metro Bus systems of Lahore and Rawalpindi–Islamabad, the Kartarpur Corridor, new port terminals at Port Qasim, Karachi, and a 46-storey Civil Aviation Tower in Islamabad. She also served as geotechnical Team Lead for UNOPS water and sanitation schemes and hospital reconstruction in Herat, Afghanistan. She has authored 11 conference papers and presented at the 17th Asian Regional Conference of ISSMGE in Astana (2023), an international conference on geotechnics for sustainable infrastructure in Hanoi (2023) and the 2nd Geomandu in Kathmandu (2024).
Since 2025 she has been General Secretary of the Pakistan Geotechnical Engineering Society (PGES), the ISSMGE member society for Pakistan. She also serves on the Industrial Advisory Boards of FAST-NUCES and UCP Lahore and the Board of Studies of UMT Lahore, and regularly lectures to graduate and postgraduate civil engineering students.