Our Team
Core Team
Noor Shehzad
Founder and Director
Noor Shahzad is a research fellow at MHRC lums. She is interested in migration and mobility studies to bring to light contemporary stories of migrants from the global south. Her research interests include gender, literary cultures and contemporary South Asia.
Safwan Khan
advisor
Safwan Khan is a public policy professional who has worked at the cross-section of public service, international development, politics, and media for over a decade. Skilled in interdisciplinary public policy analysis, interagency consultation and alliance building, institutional cooperation, and public affairs, he has worked with government, non-government, and multilateral organizations in South Asia, UK, Australia, Canada and the MENA region.
Lala Rukh
Research and Development
Consultant
Lala Rukh Khan, Program Manager at Duke University’s DevLab, researches gender, labor markets, health, and inheritance rights in Pakistan. She has extensive field and implementation experience working at CERP. She holds a MA in Demography from UC Berkeley on the Fulbright scholarship.
Hafiz Ahmed
Multi-Media Specialist
Hafiz Ahmed Muhammad B, a Spanish multimedia journalist of Pakistani origin based in Barcelona, Spain, has been working for German public broadcast Deutsche Welle since 2017. Alongside his role, he produces documentaries for InfoMigrants, specializing in migration and refugee stories, shedding light on their challenging journeys. He also focuses on the difficulties faced by host societies in Europe in dealing with irregular immigrants.
Noor Shahzad
Founder and Director
Noor Shahzad is a research fellow at MHRC lums. She is interested in migration and mobility studies to bring to light contemporary stories of migrants from the global south. Her research interests include gender, literary cultures and contemporary South Asia.
Safwan khan
Advisor
Safwan Khan is a public policy professional who has worked at the cross-section of public service, international development, politics, and media for over a decade. Skilled in interdisciplinary public policy analysis, interagency consultation and alliance building, institutional cooperation, and public affairs, he has worked with government, non-government, and multilateral organizations in South Asia, UK, Australia, Canada and the MENA region.Â
Lala Rukh
Research and Development Consultant
Lala Rukh Khan, Program Manager at Duke University’s DevLab, researches gender, labor markets, health, and inheritance rights in Pakistan. She has extensive field and implementation experience working at CERP. She holds a MA in Demography from UC Berkeley on the Fulbright scholarship.
Hafiz Ahmed
Multi-Media Specialist
Hafiz Ahmed Muhammad B, a Spanish multimedia journalist of Pakistani origin based in Barcelona, Spain, has been working for German public broadcast Deutsche Welle since 2017. Alongside his role, he produces documentaries for InfoMigrants, specializing in migration and refugee stories, shedding light on their challenging journeys. He also focuses on the difficulties faced by host societies in Europe in dealing with irregular immigrants.
Noor Habib
Research Consultant
Noor Habib’s research interests include translation, modern Urdu poetry, and twentieth century Indo-Persian literary exchange. Research for her dissertation has been supported by the American Institute of Pakistan Studies and the Graduate School at UMass. Previously, she taught for the Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies program at LUMS, Lahore (2020-22). Apart from her doctoral work, she is co-translating a representative selection of poetry by Miraji, tentatively titled Oblivion and Eternity Within Me.
Maidah Mir
Digital Transformation and Communications Consultant
Driven by a passion for crafting experiences that empower lives, Maidah leverages her expertise in social psychology and data analytics to develop user-centric solutions across diverse industries, from education to food tech.
Syed Faizan Raza
Service Design Consultant
Faizan is a Service Designer creating experiences that are rooted in a deep understanding of people, communities, and broader societal contexts. Over the past 7 years, he has been involved in several social impact projects for the historically overlooked, the afterthoughts, the odd ones out with both international and local partners. He has also taught design thinking, delivered a bunch of workshops, and published work in Touchpoint – a journal for Service Design.
Syed Faizan Raza
Service Design Consultant
Faizan is a Service Designer creating experiences that are rooted in a deep understanding of people, communities, and broader societal contexts. Over the past 7 years, he has been involved in several social impact projects for the historically overlooked, the afterthoughts, the odd ones out with both international and local partners. He has also taught design thinking, delivered a bunch of workshops, and published work in Touchpoint – a journal for Service Design.
Noor Habib
Research Consultant
Noor Habib’s research interests include translation, modern Urdu poetry, and twentieth century Indo-Persian literary exchange. Research for her dissertation has been supported by the American Institute of Pakistan Studies and the Graduate School at UMass. Previously, she taught for the Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies program at LUMS, Lahore (2020-22). Apart from her doctoral work, she is co-translating a representative selection of poetry by Miraji, tentatively titled Oblivion and Eternity Within Me.
Maidah Mir
Digital Transformation and Communications Consultant
Driven by a passion for crafting experiences that empower lives, Maidah leverages her expertise in social psychology and data analytics to develop user-centric solutions across diverse industries, from education to food tech.
Team Members
Faizan Qureshi
Program Coordinator
Shaista Madad
Associate - Education, Skills, and Youth
Dua Wasi
Content and Communication
Consultant
Ibrahim Iftikhar
Digital Transformation
Consultant
Aaqib Hasanie
Developer
