Work experience

• July 2026 - present

  Data-Pop Alliance

  Project and Research Manager

  • Manage research design, methodological quality assurance, timelines and partner coordination across country teams.
  • Oversee fundraising processes and proposal writing.

• March 2025 - June 2026

  Data-Pop Alliance

  Project and Research Officer

  • Researched across six UN and international agency projects, working on care, gender and structural inequality through a feminist economics lens.
  • Carried research end to end: literature review, survey design and semi-structured interviews, through to data collection, cleaning and analysis.
  • Experience in Python (pandas, geospatial libraries, streamlit) on large-scale demographic datasets, building dashboards and visualisations in Tableau and matplotlib/seaborn.

• August - December 2024

  The Fund for Peace

  Research Assistant

  • Authored an independent, historically grounded analysis of Balochistan for the Fragile States Index Annual Report 2024.
  • Co-edited the full 15-country report.
  • Conducted data collection and geospatial analysis for the Fragile States Index.

• November 2023 - March 2024

  Spring A.C.T

  Research Consultant

  • Designed and ran a mixed-methods market research study on lived experience, translating the findings into recommendations for senior stakeholders.

• July - November 2022

  Institute of Business Administration

  Research Assistant

  • Conducted comparative historical and archival research for a book chapter on the structural and financial barriers facing women's participation in agrarian and informal economies.

Conferences and delegations

• 2025

  Delegate, Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69)

  UN Women UK · London

• 2020

  Global Next Leader's Forum - Society, Science and Technology

  Tokyo University, Japan · One of 5 students representing Pakistan

Certifications

• 2025

  Harnessing the Power of Data to End Harmful Practices

  UNICEF

• 2023

  McKinsey Forward Program

  McKinsey & Company

• 2023

  Excel Skills Job Simulation

  JPMorgan Chase & Co. via Forage

• 2022

  How to Analyse Trade Flows

  ITC SME Trade Academy

• 2020

  Digital marketing analytics, data analysis and Excel

  Coursera · Digital Marketing Analytics in Theory and in Practice, Marketing in a Digital World, Managing Data Analysis, Excel Skills for Business: Essentials, Increase SEO Traffic with WordPress