• Dr. Abid Qaiyum Suleri
• Dr. Shaheen Rafi Khan
• Dr. Mahmood A. Khwaja
• Dr. A. H. Nayyar
• Dr Maleeha Aslam

• Dr. Saba Gul Khattak
• Dr. Zia Mian
• Dr. Lubna Nazir Chaudhry
• Dr. Haider K. Nizamani
• Dr. Urs Geiser
• Dr. Peter Lund-Thomsen
• Dr. Nathalène Reynolds
• Dr. Syed Nomanul Haq
• Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa
• Dr. Kaiser Bengali
• Dr. Shaukat Farooq
• Dr. Babar Shahbaz
• Dr. Shafqat Shehzad
• Dr. Karin Astrid Siegmann

Dr. Abid Qaiyum Suleri

Executive Director, earned his Ph.D. in Food Security from the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich, United Kingdom. Prior to joining SDPI he served as Head of OXFAM GB Pakistan Programs. He has conducted intensive research on “Globalization and rural livelihoods”. His other research interests include institutional reforms, disaster management, poverty-environment nexus and sustainable natural resources governance. He led the SDPI team in collaboration with the United Nation’s World Food Program and concluded a study on “Food Security Analysis of Rural Pakistan.” This study is the first of its kind that ranks all districts of Pakistan on the basis of their food insecurity. He is currently working on General Elections Monitoring and Observation in Pakistan; Imagine a New South Asia; Regoverning Agro-Food markets; Linkages between Trade, Development and Poverty Reduction; and Domestic Preparedness for Trade Liberalization. He is also leading SDPI team that is formulating National Sustainable Development Strategy (NSDS) in collaboration with MOE and UNEP.

Dr. Suleri is called on to give policy advice and is serving on various policy forums/advisory boards at national, regional, and international levels. He is also serving on Board of Studies of various universities and co-supervises PhD and MSc students under NCCR program.

He represents the civil society of Pakistan in various working groups, steering committee, and technical committees formed by the Government of Pakistan at the Planning Commission; Ministry of Commerce; Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Livestock; Ministry of Environment (MOE); and Pakistan Agriculture Research Council. He also represented the Pakistani civil society at the Doha and Cancun Ministerial Conferences of WTO as well as World Food Summit (FYL). He was a part of the official delegation of Government of Pakistan to WTO Hong Kong Ministerial Conference. Dr. Suleri also imparts trainings and gives lectures on various aspects of sustainable development to parliamentarians, academia, government officials, journalists, and development practitioners.

He has been published in many national and international journals. He is also a development journalist and contributes in major national and regional papers, as well as in electronic media on political economy of sustainable development. His publication, “Social Dimensions of Globalization? A case of Pakistan” was declared as “Publication of Most Importance in Year 2004” by NCCR Switzerland.

Dr. Shaheen Rafi Khan

research fellow at SDPI, earned his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in the United States. He joined SDPI in December 1997, as consultant to the resident secretariat of the IUCN Commission on Economic, Environmental and Social Policy (CEESP). Dr. Khan's research covers water resource management, deforestation, biodiversity conservation, climate change and trade and environment. A cross-sector focus has been on the social and equity aspects of environmental management.

Prior to joining SDPI, Dr. Khan worked at USAID and the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC), both as a program and project manager. He has carried out various consulting assignments in Pakistan and abroad for the World Bank, the UNDP, USAID, the Asian Development Bank, ICIMOD and National Environment Trust. He is also a member of the Regional and International Networking Group (RING) and an invited co-author of the Third Assessment Report for the IPCC.

Dr. Khan has authored and co-authored numerous research articles and reports on economic and environmental topics including wheat pricing, structural adjustment, export market structure and import substitution, protected areas management, large dams, climate change, poverty and environment, environmental security and environmental policy.

Dr. Mahmood A. Khwaja

research fellow at SDPI, earned his Ph.D. from La Trobe University of Science and Technology, Melbourne, Australia and M.Sc. from University of Peshawar, Pakistan At SDPI, he has been involved in working with the Technology Transfer for Sustainable Industrial Development (TTSID), Environmental Monitoring Program for Industry, Hazardous Chemicals & Wastes. Prior to joining SDPI, Dr. Khwaja held teaching positions at the University of Peshawar, La Trobe University of Science and Technology, University of Cape Coast and Kumasi University of Science and Technology, Ghana. He worked as a subject specialist (science text books) with the NWFP Text Books Board and as senior scientific officer with Pakistan Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR). His research interests include environmental monitoring, industrial wastes treatment and utilization, water quality, environmental impact assessment (EIA), environmental audit, hazardous chemicals and wastes, specially persistant organic pollutants (POPs).

Dr. Khwaja has over 70 publications to his credit, which have appeared in refereed national and international research journals, magazines and newspapers. These include “Mercury Pollution in Ghana Coastal Commercial Fish,” Environment Tech Letters; Environmental Pollution, NWFP-EPA; Environmental Impacts of Tanning and Leather Products Manufacturing Industry in NWFP, (SDPI, 2000); “Pollution of the River Kabul,” The Politics of Managing Water, Oxford – SDPI (2003). “Effect of Lead Exposure in Children,” Science Technology and Development, (2005) “Key Environmental Issues in Pakistan – Air,” (2005) “ Environmental and Health Impacts of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) and Measures for PCBs Phase Out in Pakistan.” Science, Technology and Development, 2006. He was the founding editor of Chemistry and Industry (1995). He holds honorary positions on executive committees of chemical societies, science associations, international networks like IPEN, PBC, ISDE, GCSF and regional/international institutes.

Dr. A. H. Nayyar

senior research fellow at SDPI and a physicist, retired from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. At SDPI he works in the areas of renewable energy systems and policies, and education. He co-edited the SDPI report “The Subtle Subversion: The State of Curricula and Textbooks in Pakistan”, published in 2003, the report critically examined curriculum guidelines and textbook contents in the mainstream public school system of Pakistan. The report, which was intensely debated on public forums, eventually led to the government exercise to revise school curricula and textbooks. Also from SDPI, he co-authored a critical appraisal of the National Education Policy, published in 2006. He has also researched and written on Madrassa education. For over a year, he served as the Executive Director of Developments in Literacy, an organization of Pakistani Americans for philanthropic intervention in education to disadvantaged communities in Pakistan.

In the area of renewable energy, the energy group at SDPI that he helped establish, has studied the question of marketability of renewable energy technologies with a view to identifying policy measures that could promote their use in Pakistan. Another area that interests him is nuclear disarmament. He holds a visiting position at the Program on Science and Global Security of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, USA, where he spends summer months conducting technical studies on issues in nuclear disarmament. He is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials. Dr. Nayyar also takes an active interest in the national and international peace movements. Dr. Nayyar is a member of the Global Council of Abolition 2000, a member of the Steering Committee of the Asian Peace Alliance, co-Convener of Pugwash Pakistan, and a member of the Board of Governors of Focus on the Global South, Bangkok.

Dr Maleeha Aslam

Research fellow at SDPI, completed her MPhil in Development Studies in July 2003, and PhD on Gender and Islam in Oct 2007 from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, where as a member of the Wolfson College, she supervised and lectured postgraduate students on issues of development and gender.

Her research interests include gender (body politics and honor-related issues and masculinity studies); religion within the historical complex of South Asia and tradition of Islam (ritual in the local sphere, radicalism and obscurantism, leadership, politics of knowledge production); and education and youth.

After completing her postgraduate studies in International Relations at Quaid- i-Azam University, Islamabad, Dr Aslam started her career as a political journalist. Being particularly inclined towards multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research, Dr Aslam started diversifying her intellectual interests towards the field of development. Dr Aslam has actively remained engaged with national policy debates, fundamentally those revolving around ‘Education for All’ (EFA) and National Youth Policy (NYP) and has been working for international organizations, such as, Action Aid, Oxfam and UNDP.

She has presented her work widely to both national and global audiences at several academic and development forums. Her writings have featured within academic, journalistic and charity sectors. ‘Understanding Aggressive Muslim Masculinities in Pakistan,’ a book chapter for a Routledge project on ‘Islam and Gender in South Asia’; and ‘Islam in Patriarchal Cultures: Morals, Honor and Gender Issues in Pakistan,’ another book chapter for a reader on ‘Women in Islam,’ being edited by Editor: Prof. N A Okur are forthcoming.

Dr Aslam remained as a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust’s Scholar from 2002-06. She has received several research awards, such as the Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust’s Research Fund, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, UK; Smuts Memorial Fund’s Research Grant, University of Cambridge, UK; Prince Consort and Thirlwall Studentship Award, Faculty of History, Cambridge; Research Award by the Charles Wallace Trust of Pakistan, London; and the Overseas Research Studentship (ORS) Award for Doctoral Research, UK.

Dr. Saba Gul Khattak

Visiting Fellow and Ex- Executive Director SDPI, holds a PhD in political science. Dr. Khattak specializes in comparative politics and her research is informed by the political economy approach to development, feminist and political theory with a focus on state theory. Specifically, she works on issues of women’s economic empowerment, peace and violence, governance issues, refugee issues, and labor rights. She actively contributes to dialogues on these themes at different fora in Pakistan and abroad. She also delivers lectures on gender and development and has taught international relations and comparative politics at the universities of Peshawar and Hawaii in the past. Dr. Khattak provides regular policy advice on women, governance and refugee issues to the government.

Dr. Khattak also undertakes solicited research and has recently completed work on violence against women, gender and security, trafficking in children in Pakistan, worst forms of child labor in Pakistan, education and child laborers, food security for refugees, the rehabilitation of refugee affected areas in the NWFP and Balochistan, and the effects of structural adjustment policies on women in Pakistan. She has also worked on corruption issues in Pakistan and recently conducted a dialogue on the future policy options and durable solutions for Afghan refugees in Pakistan.

Saba Gul Khattak contributes to journals and books and presents her work at national and international conferences. She is coauthor of a book, Hazardous Home-based Work: A Story of Multi Tiered Exploitation (OUP, 2005). Her recent publications include, “Inconvenient Facts: Military regimes and women’s political representation in Pakistan”, (SDPI, 2005), “Adversarial discourses, Analogous Objectives: Controlling Afghan Women” (Cultural Dynamics, 2004); and “Insecurity: Afghan refugee camps and politics in Pakistan” (Journal of Critical Asian Studies 2003).

Saba Khattak is the recipient of several honors and awards for academic excellence. She serves on a number of national and international committees in a voluntary capacity.

Dr. Zia Mian

Dr. Lubna Nazir Chaudhry

visiting research fellow at SDPI, is an applied anthropologist. Her program at SDPI is entitled “Education and Knowledge Systems,” where education also encompasses the teaching and learning that takes place outside formal schooling situations. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis in socio-cultural studies in education with minors in critical theory and feminist studies. She also earned a master’s degree in applied linguistics from the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and another master’s in English from the University of the Punjab, Lahore. Dr. Chaudhry taught at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA, in Department of Social Foundations of Education and in the Women's Studies program. She published in international journals and anthologies. She has also presented extensively at education, anthropology, and women’s studies conferences. Particularly concerned with Muslim women in different contexts and their relationship with feminist theory and praxis, her earlier research has focused on the identity formation processes of young Muslims in the Unites States. She has attempted to delineate the strategies of resistance, employed in response to the workings of oppressive power relations in different contexts. In addition, she has written about issues in designing and implementing critical feminist research, which is grounded in the realities of those it seeks to empower. Her current research includes a study of villagers’ perspectives on education and development in Southern Punjab and an investigation of the impact of violence on women’s lives in the Karachi context. She is also conceptualizing a project on food security.

Dr. Haider K Nizamani

visiting Fellow at SDPI, earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in 1997. His specialization is in the fields of International Politics, Security Studies and South Asian Politics. He has been associated with the Department of political science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver as Teaching Assistant during 1993-97. He has been a Research Fellow at the Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad during 1992-93. Contributed research articles and book reviews on South Asian Security issues. Served as an Assistant Editor of the Institute's quarterly journal Strategic Studies.

Dr Nizamani authored a book "The Roots of Rhetoric: Politics of Nuclear Weapons in India and Pakistan". The book comparatively examines and documents the evolution of the nuclear issue in the security cultures of India and Pakistan. His other publication is "Limits of Dissent A Comparative Study of Dissident Voices in the nuclear Discourse of India and Pakistan" Contemporary South Asia, 7.3 Autumn 1998.

His other research articles included:

• "Indo-US Security Relations in the Post-Cold War Period." Strategic Perspectives (Islamabad) 23.Summer 1994
• "The New World Order and Academic Discourse in Pakistan" Pakistan Journal of American Studies 10 1. Spring 1992

Dr Nizamani also gave a number of presentations on Security issues particularly on India-Pakistan nuclear options. He is also serving as a referee for the Oxford University Press. He also contributes to Pakistan's leading English newspapers on national security and political issues.

Dr. Urs Geiser

visiting fellow at SDPI, teaches development studies at the Department of Geography, Zurich University, where he is also member of the Development Study Group. He has a PhD from Zurich University. After working in development practice for many years (esp. in Yemen, Sri Lanka, South India and Pakistan), he joined Zurich University. His main research fields include livelihood strategies and natural resource use (esp. water and forests) in rural South Asia; rural development as societal practice (esp. the role of the "local state" and of donors); and discourse and practice of participation. In ongoing projects, he is researching the process of participation within Switzerland itself, in the context of societal negotiation processes regarding the prevention of floods. Within the Swiss Centre of Competence in North-South Research Partnerships (NCCR-N-S) he is in charge of the Pakistan and South India components. He is co-author with M. Flury of ‘’Local Environmental Management in a North-South Perspective- Issues of Participation and Knowledge Management’’ (Zurich and IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2003). Recent English language articles include ‘’State actors' Livelihoods, Acts of Translation, and Forest Sector Reforms in Northwest Pakistan’’ (Contemporary South Asia, December 2004); ‘’The Urgency of (not necessarily) Policy-oriented Research - the Example of Power Devolution and Natural Resource Management in North-West Pakistan (Oxford University Press, Karachi, and Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad, 2005); ‘’Food, Nature and Society- Rural Life in Late Modernity’’ (Ashgate Publishing Ltd Aldershot, England); ‘’To 'Participate' with whom, for what (and against whom): Forest Fringe Management along the Western Ghats in Southern Kerala’’ (Vira B., Jeffery R. eds. 2001) and ‘’Analytical Issues in Participatory Natural Resource Management’’ ( Palgrave, New York).

Dr. Peter Lund-Thomsen

Visiting Fellow at SDPI, is an Assistant Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility and Aid Management at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) where he is affiliated with the Center for Business and Development Studies and the Center for Corporate Values and Responsibility. He did his Ph.D at CBS on donor-funded capacity development projects in South African environmental justice NGOs, investigating how these NGOs managed their relations with donors, and how donor management requirements and priorities affected the capacity of the NGOs. He holds an MA in Environment and Development from the University of Cambridge and a M.Sc. in International Business Administration from the CBS. His current research focuses on corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) in developing countries with a regional focus on Southern Africa and South Asia. In the Pakistani context, his research deals with the implementation of CSER measures in the leather tanning industry.

His forthcoming publications include Corporate Social Responsibility and Development: Towards a New Dialogue? (Social Learning Towards a More Sustainable World: Principles, Perspectives, and Praxis, UnitedNationsUniversity, Tokyo, 2006); Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability of Donor-financed Interventions in the South: The Case of Pakistan (Corporate Citizenship in Developing Countries, Copenhagen Business School Press, Copenhagen, 2005); and Corporate Social Responsibility in South Africa: the Role of Community mobilizing in Environmental Governance (International Affairs, Blackwell Publishing, May 2005).

Dr. Nathalène Reynolds

Holder of a doctorate in the History of International Relations (University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne), Nathalène Reynolds is an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Asian Studies in Geneva and a Visiting Fellow at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in Islamabad. Her main areas of research include the Kashmir conflict; geopolitics of South Asia; history of Indian sub-continent; and gender issues in India and Pakistan. Affiliated for four years to the School of Political Science of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi, her doctoral thesis addressed 'Foreign influences on the strategy of the Indian Communist Movement (1936-64)'. She later tackled the Kashmir conflict, focusing on the mechanisms of antagonistic nationalisms that helped consolidate the construction of the Indian and Pakistani nation-states. She has published a historical study entitled 'Le Cachemire dans le conflit indo-pakistanais (1947-2004)' (Kashmir in the Indo-Pakistan Conflict, 1947-2004), Harmattan, Paris, 2005).

Currently her work looks at the geopolitics of the sub-continent (without neglecting the impact of the Afghan conflict); the resurgence of the Naxalites in India; and questions of citizenship in Pakistan. Nathalène Reynolds, holder of a diploma of the - French - National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO), has also been employed as a Hindi/Urdu interpreter by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), participating in visits to prisoners in both India and Pakistan.

Dr. Syed Nomanul Haq

Visiting Fellow at SDPI, is currently developing the humanities program at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) as a senior faculty member of the Department of Social Sciences. He comes to LUMS from the University of Pennsylvania where he has been on the faculty of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and of South Asian Studies. Following his postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University where he largely carried out his doctoral work as a transfer student from University College London, Dr. Nomanul Haq’s university teaching career began in earnest with his faculty appointment at Tufts University after which he became Assistant Professor at Brown University, and then at Rutgers University, finally ending up at the University of Pennsylvania.

During the years 2004 and 2005, Dr. Nomanul Haq held the title of Scholar-in-Residence at the US-Pakistan federally funded American Institute of Pakistan Studies in Islamabad and served as its Project Director. He is the author of several books, largely published in Europe and the USA, as well as numerous articles and papers in some of the world’s most prestigious journals, international newspapers, and edited volumes including Nature, New York Times, and Daedalus. While being General Editor of Oxford University Press book series Studies in Islamic Philosophy, he also sits on the editorial boards of many learned periodicals.

Dr. Nomanul Haq has received a large number of honors and awards, including the Templeton Prize for Religion and Science and the Pakistan League of America Annual Award, and has delivered many prestigious lectures in places such as Berkeley’s Graduate Theological Union, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and the Humanities Center of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of UN-sponsored Forum on Religion and Ecology, and has also worked for several years as a journalist at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London.

Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa

Visiting Fellow at SDPI and an author of two books on defense decision-making and political-economy of military, Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa has 17 years work experience in research and writing, consulting and public sector management. Dr. Siddiqa did her doctorate in War Studies from King’s College, London. Her first book titled ‘Pakistan’s Arms Procurement and Military Buildup, 1979-99 in search of a Policy’ (published by Palgrave Press, UK – 2001) is the first detailed analysis of defense decision-making in Pakistan. Her second book ‘Military Inc, Inside Pakistan’s Military Economy’ (Pluto Press, UK, April 2007 and Oxford University Press, May 2007) looks at Pakistan’s politics from the prism of elite interests and the military economy. She is also a regular columnist for the English daily ‘Daily Times’ and has written in other Pakistani papers as well. She also contributes to international academic journals and was the correspondent for ‘Jane’s Defence Weekly’ (1993-94). Dr. Siddiqa also went on to become the first Pakistan Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, USA, 2004-05. She has been a Ford Fellow, and a research fellow at the Cooperative Monitoring Center, Sandia National Laboratories, USA. She was also the recipient of the esteemed Mehboobul Haq, Kodikara and Asia Foundation research awards. Dr. Siddiqa is currently working on a research project on the ‘political-economy of marginality and extremism in Pakistan’ and is compiling her third book on ‘Military, State and Society in South Asia: A Subaltern Perspective.

Dr. Kaiser Bengali

Visiting Fellow at SDPI, is currently Professor of Economics at SZABIST, Karachi and Senior Economist at the Collective for Social Science Research, Karachi. He has a Masters in Economics from Boston University, USA, and a PhD from University of Karachi, Pakistan. He has served as Managing Director of the Social Policy & Development Centre, Karachi (2001-04) and Research Economist/ Assistant Professor at the Applied Economics Research Centre, University of Karachi, Karachi (1979-1995). He has also held research/teaching positions at the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research, Karachi, Institut Universitaire d’Etudes du Developpment, University of Geneva, Switzerland and Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK.

He has over 30 research publications in national and international journals and conferences and has carried out over 20 consultancy assignments, including Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Eritrea. He is the author of two books titled “Why Unemployment?” and “The Politics of Managing Water” and has edited three reviews of social development in Pakistan on “Growth, Inequality and Poverty”, “The State of Education” and “Combating Poverty: Is Growth Sufficient?”

His areas of interest include urban development and issues in local government. He is a founder-member of Shehri, an NGO committed to the preservation of the urban environment and a member of the Ethics Review Committee of The Aga Khan University. He has numerous newspaper articles to his credit and appears regularly on electronic media. He has a keen interest in politics and has consistently supported the cause of democracy and social and economic justice, particularly the cause of the poor and underprivileged.

Dr. Shaukat Farooq

is a HEC-FFHP Professor of Environmental Engineering at Institute of Environmental Engineering (IESE), NUST, Rawalpindi. His research interests include rural sanitation problems in Pakistan. Prior to joining NUST, he had over 30 years of experience in teaching, research and consulting in USA, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. He has published and presented numerous research papers in international refereed journals and conferences on water and wastewater treatment, its reuse and management for both residential and industrial sources. He has been a founding member of the Dhahran Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Technology (DFAST) at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Farooq received his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA; M.S. in Sanitary Engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey and B.E. from NED Engineering College, Karachi, Pakistan.

Dr. Babar Shahbaz

Visiting Fellow at SDPI, is a senior researcher, National Centre for Competence in Research (NCCR North-South) Switzerland, and university faculty at the University of Agriculture Faisalabad Pakistan. He earned his doctorate degree in Agricultural Extension from University of Agriculture Faisalabad/Zurich University Switzerland. His Ph.D. dissertation examined institutional changes in forest management paradigm and local livelihood strategies in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan. His research fields include natural resource management (especially forests), decentralization, livelihoods and poverty-environment nexus.

Dr. Shahbaz’s most recent publications include “A critical Analysis of Forest Policies of Pakistan: Implications for Sustainable Livelihoods” in the journal of Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies of Global Change, vol. 12 (4), 2007 and “Impact of Participatory Forest Management on Financial Assets of Rural Communities in Northwest Pakistan” in Ecological Economics, vol. 63, 2007.

Currently, he is pursuing Post-Doc. research on the “Impact of Development Intervention Disparities on the Poverty-Environment Nexus: Contextuality of Decision-Making and Mitigation Strategies” under Transversal Package of NCCR North-South (Switzerland).

Dr. Shafqat Shehzad

Visiting Fellow at SDPI and a pioneering health economist in Pakistan, earned her PhD in Economics from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. Currently, she is involved in the Institute's Health and Population projects. She did her M.Sc and M.Phil in Economics from Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan. Prior to joining SDPI, Dr. Shehzad was Assistant Professor of Economics Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad and adjunct faculty, Fatima Jinnah University, and Health Services Academy, Ministry of Health.

Currently, she is responsible for developing an integrated program on health related issues in Pakistan extending her work not only in the Southern context but also providing an outlook for the North. Her research will cover child health, gender and health disparities, health and environment, and macro-economic aspects of health.

Dr. Shehzad has worked extensively in the area of child health, both at the macro and micro levels. Her work relates to exploring various aspects of child health including infant and child mortality across developing countries, factors determining child survival in Pakistan and measurement models for child's unobservable health status. She has also worked on economic evaluation of health care programs that aim at providing early intervention to hard of hearing children in Canada. Dr. Shehzad has presented her work internationally in prestigious conferences on population and health economics held in Hawaii, Istanbul, York, and Hong Kong. She has published her work on issues relating to health unobservability, measurement and cross-country comparisons of infant and child mortality.

Dr. Karin Astrid Siegmann

Visiting Fellow at SDPI, obtained her Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Bonn, Germany. She holds a Master of Economics from the University of Cologne, Germany. Her specialisation is the effects of globalisation on the various dimensions of gender equality. Research interests include feminist, development, and labour economics as well as innovative economics methodology. She has implemented empirical research in countries as diverse as Bangladesh, Niger and Indonesia. Before joining SDPI, she worked as a junior fellow at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn, Germany, and at the Südwind Institute for Economics and Ecumenism in Siegburg, Germany. There, her focus was on the sustainability of multinational corporations’ activities as well as on the effects of international financial flows on development. She has presented papers at various international conferences and published on the issue of gender and globalisation as well as on the effects of international financial flows on development. Besides her professional work, she has been involved in peace, human rights, and development organisations as a volunteer for many years.