Maryam Tanwir
Brief Biography:
Dr Maryam Tanwir has an MPhil and PhD in International development from the University of Cambridge. She has been a Lecturer and coordinator for paper 340 “Gender and development”, Centre of Development Studies, university of Cambridge since 2015. Currently she is working on a neuro- practitioner course, with an emphasis on behaviour interventions that mitigate the gender bias. Her recent research and professional responsibilities have focused on international development, politics of governance and gender and development.
She was contracted by the World Bank as a gender consultant for the Pakistan Trade and Investment policy program, 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 on gender, poverty, institutional efficiency and economic growth. Maryam’s post-doctoral research examined the performance of performance standards and their correlation to bureaucratic efficiency.
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. Her recent academic and professional research interests have focused on good governance, institutional efficiency, civil service performance, performance measurement, gender empowerment and poverty reduction. Prior to her PhD she worked as urban economist for government of Punjab, in Pakistan. She has also worked as a research associate for the Anti-money laundering project, for the World Bank.
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