Mr Arif has more than three decades of diversified experience in varying disciplines such as corporate affairs, Joint Ventures affairs, full cycle legal and regulatory compliance of upstream oil and gas industry including over ten years in a very senior management level position primarily responsible for legal, joint ventures, regulatory & commercial contracts, regulation and gas market restructuring.

Mr Arif has recently completed his statutory position as Member Gas – Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority – Pakistan’s mid and downstream oil and gas regulator. Prior to that he worked as Head of Legal, Commercial and Joint Ventures with Ocean Pakistan Limited, Islamabad, Pakistan for over 11 years immediately before starting his independent consultancy in October 2016. Earlier, he worked for Oil and Gas Development Company (national E&P Company of Pakistan) in the commercial, joint ventures, corporate affairs and Petroleum Law Departments. Mr. Arif is also President, Energy Lawyers Association of Pakistan.

Founding Secretary General of Petroleum Lawyers Association of Pakistan which was established in the year 2003 and later renamed as Energy Lawyers Association of Pakistan in 2010 when he was unanimously elected as its President.