Maryam Tanwir
Brief Biography:
Dr Maryam Tanwir has an MPhil, PhD and Post doctorate in International Development from the University of Cambridge. She has been a Lecturer and Coordinator for paper 340 “Gender and Development” at the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge since 2015.
Currently she is the CEO of Unlearning Ltd, which is a mission-led social enterprise whose innovative intervention, developed at the University of Cambridge, merges three neuroscience-based critical thinking frameworks to catalyse behaviour change. Rooted in empirical evidence, the approach addresses ingrained gender biases and heuristics.
She is also contracted by the FCDO-IEP as the Gender and social inclusion advisor for the South African government and informs on gender mainstreaming initiatives in their international development projects.
She has worked for the World Bank as a gender consultant for the Pakistan Trade and Investment Policy Programme, to investigate the gender and trade interface, with a special focus on Pakistan. Prior to that she worked as an evaluation consultant for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Rome, Italy. She also worked as a gender consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in Rome, Italy. The work focused on evaluation of the development initiatives of these organizations with a focus ongender, poverty, institutional efficiency and economic growth.
Maryam’s post-doctoral research examined the performance of performance standards and their correlation to bureaucratic efficiency. While her PhD investigated the lack of good governance in developing countries, by examining the inability of the bureaucrat to ensure development which remained correlated to erroneous performance assessment and political alignment.
Prior to her PhD she worked as urban economist for the government of Punjab, in Pakistan. She has also worked as a research associate for the Anti-money laundering project, for the World Bank.
Her recent academic and professional research interests have focused on politics of governance, institutional efficiency, civil service performance, performance measurement, poverty reduction, gender empowerment, gender bias and gender-based violence.
Maryam also is the podcast host for Declarations – The Human Rights Podcast at the Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge.
Areas of Expertise:
Access to justice, Adolescent girls, Advocacy, Economic policy, Education, Engaging men, Gender training, Gender mainstreaming, Gender responsive budgets, Gender mainstreaming, Policy analysis, Programming, Research, SDGs, Social Norms, Strategy development, Trade, VAWG, Women Peace and Security, Women's economic empowerment, Women’s economic justice, Women’s leadership and participation, Women’s rights
Contact Info:
Email: maryamtanwir@gmail.com