2nd Annual International Conference of School of Economics and Social Sciences, IBA Karachi

Mushfiq Mobarak Professor of Economics
Yale University Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak is a Professor of Economics at Yale University with concurrent appointments in the School of Management and in the Department of Economics. Mobarak is the founder and faculty director of the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE). He holds other appointments at Innovations for Poverty Action, the International Growth Centre (IGC) at LSE, and the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT. Mobarak has several ongoing research projects in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sierra Leone. He conducts field experiments exploring ways to induce people in developing countries to adopt technologies or behaviors that are likely to be welfare improving. He also examines the complexities of scaling up development interventions that are proven effective in such trials. For example, he is scaling and testing strategies to address seasonal poverty using migration subsidies or consumption loans in Bangladesh, Nepal and Indonesia. His research has been published in journals across disciplines, including Econometrica, Science, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, the American Political Science Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Demography, and covered by the New York Times, The Economist, NPR, BBC, NBC, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Science, Nature, the Times of London, and other media outlets around the world. He received a Carnegie Fellowship in 2017. Mobarak is collaborating with the government of Bangladesh and other local institutions to devise evidence-based COVID response strategies. He is collaborating with governments and NGOs in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh to distribute facemasks to over 100 million people based on the results of the NORM model. The approach and results have been covered by BBC, Foreign Policy, New York Times, Washington Post, Vox, and media across South Asia, Africa and Europe. The work is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Givewell.org, the Global Innovation Fund, and Yale Macmillan Center.
You can follow him on Twitter: @mushfiq_econ and https://faculty.som.yale.edu/mushfiqmobarak/

Barbara Harriss White Emeritus Professor and Fellow
Wolfson College Oxford

CASS R. SUNSTEIN Robert Walmsley University Professor
at Harvard

Haben Girma Human Rights Lawyer
Disability justice Auther and Speaker (Virtual) The first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, Haben Girma is a human rights lawyer advancing disability justice. President Obama named her a White House Champion of Change. She received the Helen Keller Achievement Award, a spot on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, and TIME100 Talks. President Bill Clinton, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Chancellor Angela Merkel have all honored Haben. Haben believes disability is an opportunity for innovation, and she teaches organizations the importance of choosing inclusion. The New York Times, Oprah Magazine, and TODAY Show featured her memoir, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law.

Sheema Kirmani Social Activist
Founder of Tehrik-e-Niswan Cultural Action Group Sheema Kirmani is a social activist (Culture, Women's Rights, Peace), the founder of Tehrik-e-Niswan Cultural Action Group (Women's Movement), and an exponent of Bharatanatyam dance.
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Asma Shirazi Pakistani Journalist
Hosts a primetime current-affairs show on Aaj News Asma Shirazi is a Pakistani journalist and political commentator who hosts a primetime current-affairs show on Aaj News. https://www.paksahafat.com/en/pakistan/journalist-asma-shirazi-faces-wrath-of-ministers/

Asim Sajjad A teacher, left-wing politician, and columnist
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar is a teacher, left-wing politician, and columnist. Akhtar is also an associate professor of political economy at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. https://www.isas.n
us.edu.sg/non_resident_fellow/aasim-sajjad-akhtar/