Oxford Pakistan Programme

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Team

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Management

Professor Adeel Malik

Professor Adeel Malik

Co-Founder & Academic Lead

Adeel is a development macroeconomist who completed his doctorate at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He holds the Globe Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.

Dr Talha J. Pirzada

Dr Talha J. Pirzada

Co-Founder & Development Lead

Talha is a lecturer in Materials Science and a Junior Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. He is a Chartered Engineer at the IMechE and co-founder of the OPP.

Minahil Saqib

Minahil Saqib

Operations Lead

Minahil is an Associate Director at Barclays. While at Oxford, she served as the Vice President of the Oxford Pakistan Society.

Haroon Zaman

Haroon Zaman

Co-Founder & Management Lead

Haroon is a corporate lawyer based in London. He co-founded the OPP as an undergraduate at Oxford, where he received a BA in Jurisprudence.

Operations

Hamza Saeed

Marketing & Operations Associate

Leveraging his background in law and communications, Hamza oversees the OPP’s digital strategy and workflows.

Eman Sajid

Eman Sajid

Outreach Team

Eman works as the Marketing Lead of Igniteful, an edtech platform aiming to ignite the full potential of Pakistani youth.

Harram Sajid

Administrative Assistant

Harram provides critical support for scheduling and inquiries to ensure the smooth daily functioning of the programme.