Nazish Brohi is a research specialist in the social sector with dual thematic focus: women’s rights, violence and marginalization; and conflict, democratization and social change. For two decades she has been involved in research, evaluation, policy, community development and service delivery in Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan. Most recently she drafted Pakistan’s first national policy for violence against women. In the past, her research was utilized by the Supreme Court of Pakistan to shape regulations for human rights violations in community justice systems.
As visiting faculty, she has taught at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad, and Salahadin University in Erbil. She was a Charles Wallace Fellow at the department for international development at the University of Oxford. Nazish has published various reports, papers, op-eds and long form essays including creative non-fiction, and is currently working on a novel.