Biography

Rameen Iftikhar is an education and gender specialist. She has led research and implementation efforts for gender justice through outreach and pedagogy in the Global South. She has pioneered a multimodal approach to gender diversity, violence, and governance in South Asia as the lead investigator of an AHRC-funded grant. She has served as a policy consultant for The Asia Foundation, where she developed a systems reform framework for foundational literacy and numeracy for governments in Southeast Asia. She co-founded Aghaaz, a community-based organisation for at-risk youth in Pakistan, where she designed and implemented programs for vulnerable K-12 students. Drawing from her background in economics, politics, and international development, her doctoral research explores the potential of communities to expand girls’ education and life paths. Her work investigates if the knowledge, skills and resources that young girls gain from education translate into capabilities that allow them to dream of and pursue alternative life paths and envisions communities as key levers of change in these relationships. She graduated as a Fulbright scholar from the University of Pennsylvania with an MSEd in International Education Development program.

Previous Education

Lahore University of Management Sciences Politics & Economics
University of Pennsylvania Int. Educational Development