He hailed from a distinguished family that was originally from Kasur. His father, Mohyeddin Ahmad Qureshi, was a civil servant in the British government and his mother, Khursheed Jabin, was a housewife. Moeen Qureshi has two daughters and two sons.
Moeen Qureshi served as the caretaker prime minister of Pakistan from July 18, 1993 to October 19, 1993 after both Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and President Ghulam Ishaq Khan resigned from their respected offices.
Moeen Qureshi was born in Lahore on June 26, 1930. He attended the Government College University in Lahore where he got BA (Honors) in Economics and received an MA in Economics from the Punjab University.
He received the Fulbright scholarship and went to the United States to attend the Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where he earned a PhD in Economics in 1955.
He returned to Pakistan in 1955 and joined the country's civil service and was initially posted at the Planning Commission. In 1956, he resigned from the Planning Commission and went to the United States to join the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Qureshi was an executive vice president of International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1974 to 1977.
In 1981, Moeen Qureshi joined the World Bank and became the senior vice president of finance, which he remained until 1987. Eventually, he was appointed the Senior Vice President of the World Bank and oversaw its financial operations all over the world.
In 1993, he returned to Pakistan and served as caretaker prime minister from July 1993 to October 1993. Moeen Qureshi returned to New York in 1993 after his three-month tenure as caretaker prime minister and established a consultant office with the help of his son.