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Toronto, ON, CA

• Support teams across 8 countries to implement the Acumen Fellowship
• Work with regional teams to identify, clarify, and prioritize programmatic improvement
• Plan the central services along with various other teams (Marketing, Data, Tech, Legal)

Pakistan

- Helped the company create a multi-stakeholder product offering and distributed it via TV and radio, increasing the impact footprint from 1 million to 10 million students.- Strategised and steered the company from a non-profit into a revenue-generating for-profit valued at $6 million in its first round.- Launched a new school vertical and scaled it to.

Pakistan

- Hired as the 2nd employee in a global non-profit and was responsible to launch Pakistan’s operations from scratch. Formulated the strategic plan and executed the launch of Generation in Pakistan within 6 months of funding.- Pitch the program to the country’s top employers, and unlocked 10 paid employer partnerships to place 80% of graduates in meaningful.

Lahore

- Hired as the fourth employee - increased the organization’s impact footprint 12x (200 to 2500 annual graduates) by launching in 3 new cities with an 84% placement rate for the trained fellows.- Planned and executed marketing strategies to increase the overall program applications by 10x and increased visibility for the fellowship applications from 3000.

Pakistan

- Completed a 10 months of intense leadership training for social sector leaders, selected through a competitive application process.- Learned Adaptive leadership, moral imagination, systems thinking, and other frameworks to solve real life challenges.

Greater New York City Area

- Collected primary and secondary data on the CSR initiatives of businesses and the public sector related to gender equality and women empowerment to raise visibility on SGD 5.

Nairobi, Kenya

- Airdropped into the organization in Kenya, and asked to analyze the disbursal of a $150,000 outstanding loan portfolio to provide recommendations on improving portfolio performance.- Served on the front lines, talked to entrepreneurs, and then conducted a financial analysis using past data to recommend changes in entrepreneur selection, and repayment.

Islamabad

- Evaluated over 50+ applications, and conducted due diligence to select 4 organizations to disburse $200,000 for better income generation opportunities for women workers.- Worked with various government departments, international organizations, and ministries to pass the Punjab Home-Based Workers Policy Act, which institutionalized HR practices for almost.

Islamabad

- Prepared management accounts and relevant financial reports for the State Bank and investors-Conducted research and presentation on the potential of branchless banking in Pakistan

Islamabad

- Spent weeks in the field visiting women entrepreneurs in some of the remotest areas of Pakistan to uncover the challenges faced by millions of women in accessing loans leading to a published study by the World Bank influencing the $1.6 billion Microfinance industry.

Master'S Degree, International Political Economy And Development

Bachelor Of Science, Accounting And Finance Minor: Mathematics