Ayesha Tahir is a Consultant at the World Bank’s Education Global Practice where she provides implementation support to investment operations supporting education reforms in the South Asia Region and manages analytical surveys and products (impact evaluation on girls’ enrollment in education, GIS dashboard on floods impact in Pakistan, an innovative data platform in education). She also launched a flagship podcast series documenting the impact of women’s groups in South Asia.
Before joining the World Bank, she worked with Grameen Foundation, Do Good Institute, and Program Monitoring and Implementation Unit to support government and nonprofits to design and evaluate reforms and interventions on education and women’s economic empowerment. Ayesha holds a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Maryland, which she attended with a full scholarship from the TIAA Nonprofit Fellowship.