Irfan Qadir is the former Attorney General for Pakistan. In this capacity he also served as Chairman Pakistan Bar Council apart from being a Member of Judicial Commission of Pakistan and also a Member of Pakistan Law Commission. He acquired expertise in all branches of legal profession i.e. from a successful lawyer to superior court judge and a high ranking law officer and a top bureaucrat. He possesses rich experience in almost all major areas of law having conducted large number of important cases in the Supreme Court and the High Court well over the last three decades. In Supreme Court itself he has been regularly appearing in important cases for the last more than twenty five years. As regards his career in the legal profession, he has to his credit scores of reported cases in the superior courts of Pakistan. He has had a highly successful career both as a lawyer and a law officer. He became an Assistant Advocate General [in 1988] and moved to a senior position of Additional Advocate General in 1990. He also remained a Judge of the Lahore High Court and rendered many important judgments. In December 2003 he was appointed Prosecutor General of Accountability in Pakistan by the President. He is the only Prosecutor General in the country to have completed the three year tenure of this office. Despite the sensitivity of the assignment he remained completely non-controversial. In May 2010 the President of Pakistan again appointed him to the post of Prosecutor General for a non-extendable term of three years. In 2010 he was also appointed as Appellate Authority of Pakistan Cricket Board . In March 2012 he was appointed Consultant to the President of Pakistan on Legal Affairs whereafter prior to his becoming the Attorney General of his country he became Federal Secretary, Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs. He has had considerable international exposure having represented Pakistan in large number of seminars and workshops in important forums in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. He remained a member of International Corruption Hunters Network from 2006 to 2012. He is also a fellow of Icelandic Eva Joly Institute for Justice and Democracy. He is one of the founder members of International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities which was established in Beijing in 2006.

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