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Fayyaz Baqir

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This individual is not a direct affiliate of the Berkley Center. They have contributed to one or more of our events, publications, or projects. Please contact the individual at their home institution.

Fayyaz Baqir is the Director of the Akhter Hameed Khan Resource Centre (AHKRC) in Pakistan and has over twenty years of experience promoting sustainable development and good governance. Baqir has worked with UNICEF, UNDP, the Aga khan Rural Support Programme, the GEF Small Grants Programme, and is a member of the Pakistani Government’s Social Protection Policy Review Committee. As a scholar, he has taught at universities throughout Pakistan and the United States and has written extensively on social development and the fight against poverty. In 2007 and 2008, he received a Top Contributors award from UNDP’s Global Poverty Reduction Network.
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