Mahnoor Arshad

Mahnoor Arshad is a Research Associate at the Economic Growth Cluster at Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), where she works on research, policy advocacy, and capacity-building initiatives in areas including gender equality, financial inclusion, trade, energy, and local governance. She has led and co-authored studies on women’s economic empowerment, digital transformation, and sustainable livelihoods.

Samreen Shabbaz

Samreen Shahbaz has been working toward the advancement of bodily autonomy, gender equality, and social inclusion for more than 10 years. She has previously led the international advocacy portfolios of multiple women’s rights civil society organizations. 

Currently, she is working with the World Bank and Asian Development Bank as a social development consultant on issues related to social inclusion and social safeguards for the vulnerable and marginalized groups. 

Rakhshinda Perveen

Dr. Rakhshinda Perveen has authored more than a dozen research papers, reports and training manuals/guides on issues of Gender Based Violence /Violence Against Women & Girls, conducted several high-level advocacy workshops, TOTs besides authoring 5 books. She is the architect of the study that started data collection on different forms VAWG in Pakistan way back in 2000; the design is still followed by a large number of academics and practitioners. Dr.