Agha Hussain is a senior finance executive with more than 25 years of advisory and hands-on CFO leadership experience across a diverse range of sectors. He is known for building scalable finance operations, strengthening internal controls, improving reporting quality, and aligning disciplined financial stewardship with mission-driven growth.
Agha began his career with the Big Four accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers and later worked with Grant Thornton. Earlier in his career, he held senior roles with PepsiCo and PA Consulting. He subsequently established his own management consulting practice, through which he advised a range of organizations. Among his major engagements, Agha advised the World Bank for more than 13 years on fiduciary oversight, financial management arrangements, disbursement frameworks, and capacity building for recipients of World Bank funding across various projects. His World Bank portfolio included assignments across South Asia, East Africa, West Africa, MENA, and the United States, with combined project funding exceeding $1 billion.
In addition to his work at the World Bank, Agha has advised organizations across a broad range of sectors, including oil and gas, non-profits, international development, telecommunications, media, and education. His client experience includes OMV, Millicom, Telenor, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), ActionAid, LEAD International, Save the Children, Chemonics, Tetra Tech, and Results for Development, among others. His advisory work has included financial management assessments, internal control reviews, fiduciary risk analysis, budgeting and forecasting support, grant and donor compliance, systems improvement, financial reporting, audit readiness, procurement and disbursement controls, policy and procedure development, cash-flow management, and data-driven financial oversight.
Agha currently serves as Chief Financial Officer of AMVETS, where he has led major finance and operational improvements designed to strengthen transparency, accountability, internal controls, and long-term financial sustainability. He oversees a $35 million endowment fund, as well as grants, public charity funding, and awards totaling more than $21 million annually. He is also leading a $21 million thrift store growth initiative designed to expand AMVETS’ long-term funding capacity and operational scale.
Agha received his bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from the University of the Punjab and is a Certified Finance and Accounting Professional through the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan.
Outside his professional work, Agha is a guitarist and an avid hiker.
