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About the Interviewee*

Masuma Hasan (Pakistan) is President of the Board Governors of Aurat Foundation, Chairperson of The Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, Senate member of the Federal Urdu University, member of the Board of Governors of the National School of Public Policy, and a board member of the Pakistan Reinsurance Company Limited. Previously, she was Cabinet Secretary to the Government of Pakistan; Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Vienna; Ambassador to Austria, Slovenia and Slovakia; Director of the National Institute of Public Administration Karachi; Director General of the Management Services Division in Islamabad and Karachi; and Chairperson of the Planning Commission’s Working Group on Gender and Development. She also represented Pakistan at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna where she chaired the Group of 77.

Dr. Hasan has a Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Cambridge, UK. She is the editor of Pakistan in a Changing World and Editor-in Chief of the quarterly Pakistan Horizon; she has published articles on public administration and international issues. She was named Goodwill Ambassador of the World NGO Day Initiative.

*This brief biography was recorded concurrently with the subject’s interview for the WLP Oral History Archive of the Global Women’s Movement.

About the WLP Oral History Project

The WLP Oral History Archive of the Global Women’s Movement preserves stories and lessons of women’s rights activists from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and South America who have left their mark on the struggle for women’s advancement. We have collected dozens of oral histories from 25 countries, and the project is ongoing. Since 2014, WLP has collaborated with the Sound Archive of the British Library to host the repository.

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