Shameen Bashir

Shameen joins as our first Social Finance Manager in the Pakistan team. She brings over ten years' of experience in education, strategy development and project management to the British Asian Trust. Shameen worked on a diverse range of projects in her position as Manager, Public Sector Reform, at the Economic Development Board in Bahrain, where she gained experience in project implementation and stakeholder management in the education sector. In Pakistan, she has worked at UNICEF as part of a team that was designing and planning the UNICEF Technical Assistance Programme to the School Education and Literacy Department (SELD), Government of Sindh.

Shameen also serves on the Boards of some private companies including IRD Pakistan, a health delivery and research organisation. She completed her BA in Economics from Mount Holyoke College (USA) and an MPhil in Development Economics from the University of Cambridge (UK).