Mr. Arif Zaffar Mansuri is the Vice President of Urdu Writers Society (UWS).  He has sponsored a yearly cash award in his father's name.  This is a US $ 1,000.00 cash award which is given to an Urdu writer, poet or Urdu promoter residing in California.

      Mr. Mansuri is the President and Managing Editor of Pakistan Link, an English/Urdu newspaper printed weekly for the Pakistani-American community and distributed throughout the United States and Canada .

       He is also the President and CEO of Metals & More, Inc., a California-based importer and wholesaler of stainless steel. He is also the Director of Tubular Specialties Manufacturing, Inc., a manufacturer of washroom accessories and handrails/railing systems with a manufacturing plant in Los Angeles and warehouses at various locations across the U.S.A.

       He is also the Director of Huntman LLC, a California-based investment company with commercial and residential real estate holdings in California and Arizona. Mr. Mansuri is an active member of several Pakistani-American and American associations, and has been instrumental in organizing many community events and fundraisers.  He formally joined the PAL-C Board of National Directors in June of 2007.

       He is the President of Council of Pakistan American Chamber of Commerce (CPACC), the Director of Pakistan American Leadership Center (PAL-C) and a Board Member of the Southern California Organization of Pakistani Engineers (SCOPE).

      He is also a member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Multi Cultural Advisory Committee (MCAC) and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Pakistan Advisory Council. Mr. Mansuri holds a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from N.E.D. Engineering University, Karachi; a Masters Degree in Industrial Engineering from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; and an MBA Degree from Pepperdine University, Malibu, California.

       Mr. Mansuri is married to his wife of 18 years, Zaib-un-Nissa (Debbie) and has a five-year-old daughter, Jazmyn.