Arjumand Nizami

Dr. Arjumand Nizami has served as the Helvetas Pakistan Country Director since 2012. She worked as a private sector monitoring and evaluation advisor early in her career, and has since worked in international development cooperation in Pakistan for almost 30 years, holding varied programmatic roles.  

Arjumand is an expert in natural resource governance. Her thematic interests focus on equity and benefit distribution of natural resources from gender and ethnic perspectives, and the conflict or social connectivity resulting from different governance approaches.

Arjumand holds a PhD in development sociology from Wageningen University, with a specific focus on the political economy of natural resources.