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Mr. Naseer Memon |
Mr. Nasser Memon is a development professional, who has been working
with prominent development sector and corporate sector organizations
of Pakistan since 12 years. Over past seven years he has been working
on management positions in reputed corporate and social sector organizations
including LEAD Pakistan, Premier Oil and WWF Pakistan. Since 2004 he
is associated with an international organization “Leadership for
Environment and Development” LEAD-Pakistan as Provincial Coordinator
for Sindh. Mr. Memon has also been teaching the subject of Water Resource
Management in Mehran University of Engg and Tech for five years i.e.
from 1996 to 2001. Mr. Memon being a qualified civil engineer has been
extensively involved in water sector issues. He has written several
articles on water issues of Pakistan in leading newspapers and magazines.
He has been part of several advocacy campaigns on water issues and has
conducted research on issues pertaining to water resources management.
Naseer has extensively written on the subjects pertaining to socio-economic
and political issues Pakistan. Issue sof natural resources have been
as major area of interest. He has authored three books in Sindhi and
one in Urdu.
Mr. Memon is also a Fellow of LEAD Pakistan and serves on the Board
of Directors of leading national NGO, Strengthening Participatory Organization
(SPO) and Indus Resource Centre. He also represented civil society on
the Provincial Steering Committee of The World Bank supported National
Drainage Program, implemented by Government of Pakistan. Recently he
was also selected for International Visitors Leadership Program of the
Government of United States in the thematic group on Water Resource
Management. He has been making presentations and speeches in national
and international events.
Email: nmemon2004@yahoo.com |
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Ms. Shaheen Khan |
Ms. Khan is a Doctoral Researcher on Women and Gender Studies at Warwick
University UK. She has also served as visiting research fellow, University
of Western Australia and WEDC Loughborough University UK, under Endeavour
Executive Award by Australian Government and Charles Wallace Visiting
Fellowship by British Council Pakistan.
Since several years, she has been working for development field and
serving on the Executive Boards of many development organiztaions. Her
research and professional intersts include women rights, gender politics,
political representation and gender & water management,. She served
as gender focal person for Water Reforms and Gender Reform Action Plan
– GRAP in Sindh, Pakistan. She has worked as consultant to range
of international organizations, including ADB, Euro Consult, UNIFEM
& ILO are few to mention. She has special expertise in synthesizing
opinions and documents through participative processes into policies,
strategies, approaches, proposals and action plan across all social
development sectors. She is widely travelled person and remained associated
with several academic and research institutes in Pakistan, UK, Australia,
US, Netherlands, Jordan and others. She has leadership qualities, passions
for leadership development and reputation as human and women’s
rights activist.
Email: shankhan09@gmail.com |
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Mr. Nizamuddin Nizamani |
Mr. Nizam is a multilingual, writer, researcher and professional trainer
in management, development, conflicts, democracy, leadership and soft
skills. He has strong educational background, political training and
voluntary contributions during and after student life. He has completed
his MS/MPhil in Social Sciences & Economics from SZABIST Karachi.
Previously he did Masters in Agriculture followed by Business administration.
He has been contributing write-ups on socio-political and regional conflicts
issues especially on Balochistan conflicts. He has been writing and
translating in English, Sindhi and Urdu. He has also spoke and presented
research papers in national and international conferences specially
SDPI, World Social Forums, World Water Forum, Asia Europe People’s
Forum. He is on Advisory Committee of Trust for Conservation & Coastal
Resources. He has been honorary consultant to LEAD Pakistan (UNDP &
ILO Projects), Shirkatgah, SPO etc. He also hosts program on TV Chanel.
Nizam has been regular resource person and contributor to CPCS and can
be reached through this page. |
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Mr.
Ishaq Samejo |
Mr Ishaq Samejo is a writer, poet and cultural activist. He serves as
assistant professor of Sindhi Literature in department of Sindhi at
University of Sindh, Jamshoro. He edits quarterly literary magazine
“SARANGAA” which is published by “Sarangaa Literary
and Cultural Society”. He has also served as a working journalist
with many mainstream media houses like daily Kawish, daily Awami Awaz,
daily Sindh and daily Ibrat. He has been editor of bi-monthly Sanjha
and children’s literary magazine “Gulistan” and “bariran
jo Sindh Rang”.
He has visited India and other parts of Pakistan
to present his papers on literature, culture and language. Mr Samejo
is also a literary critic who has written enormous essays and reviews
on pure literature. Mr. Samejo is doing his Ph.D in Sindhi Literature
on “Progressive thought in Sindhi Poetry. Mr Ishaq Samejo is affiliated
with Center for Peace and Civil Society (CPCS) as a consultant and associate
editor quarterly journal Freedom.
Email: ishaq_samejo@yahoo.com |
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Mr. Faheem Abbasi |
Faheem Abbasi is M.Phil in education and he is student of Ph.D in Education
(Thesis in process). Faheem is Management expert, Educationist, Trainer,
and Researcher.He has been Expert by Education Department, Government
of Sindh for UNESCO in Mid Decade Assessment and need assessment under
Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE) in 2007-08 and Coordinator
and Member of “Review Committee for the Development of Training
Modules for Primary school Teachers” in Sindh Province in 2006-08.
He remained Lecturer in Physics in Education & Literacy Department,
Government of Sindh in 1995-2002. He joined as Education Program Officer
in Middle School Project Sindh, Asian Development Bank in 2002-03
and as a School Upgrading Program Officer in Decentralized Elementary
Education Project (DEEP) Sindh, Asian Development Bank in 2003-05.
He joined as Assistant Director, (Research, Monitoring & Evaluation/Sindh
Education Management System (SEMIS), Education & Literacy Department,
Government of Sindh.
He joined National Commission for Human Development, Government Pakistan
as District Program Manager Capacity Building in Jan 2005 but owing
his expertise in education, after six months he was transferred to
Universal Primary Education (UPE) program as District Program Manager
Education .On his best performance, he was promoted as Provincial
Coordinator Education Sindh in January 2006-08.
He has been working with National Commission for Human Development
(NCHD) as a Lead Trainer for the capacity building of Executive District
Officers (EDOs) and District Officers (DOs) on Planning and Budgeting,
designing and conducting different trainings for Zila Monitoring committees
and CCBs.
He has two publications on his literary account and presented paper
on “Impact of Decentralization of powers on primary education”
in International Conference Fatima Jinnah Women University Islamabad
2009.
E-mail: abbasi.fahim@gmail.com |
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Mr. Ghaffar Sethar |
Mr. Ghaffar Sethar has more than 4 years of professional experience
in Website Development, Designing, Graphics and Multimedia, printing,
publishing, packaging, branding and advertising. Enjoy serving a broad
range of industries for a variety of audiences, combining back-end technology
with graphics and content to create interactive Websites and products,
strong understanding of browser and technology standards/limitations
and pre-press/color separation techniques.
He has worked for national and international organizations such as M4tech
Italy, 2Silence Media, Atraides Technologies, Cyber Business Solutions
(Private) Limited, Indus ICT Solutions (Private) Limited, and Verge
Systems (Private) Limited. He has earned BS (Information Technology)
degree from University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Sindh.
Email: ghaffarsethar@gmail.com
Website: www.dezignfilo.com |
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