Dr. Aisha Azhar, a Fulbright Scholar, has completed her PhD and master's degrees in Public Administration & Policy from Florida State University (FSU), USA. Dr. Azhar was awarded for the fellowship of BIARI 2017 (USA) for the Humanitarian Response and Post-Conflict Reconstruction, a competitive award for one representative from each country. Since then she is working, as affiliated researcher, with Brown University's Humanitarian Innovation Initiative’ at their Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs. Dr Azhar has undertaken several funded projects, as principle investigator, on women empowerment (PUAN-USAID); PA education in Pakistan (Aga Khan) and more recently the Humanitarian Innovation Initiative (HI²). Dr. Azhar has published extensively in national and international journals. Her most notable publications appeared in Public Administration Review, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, and Sustainable Development.