Salma Zeb
Rule of Law Specilaist, United Nations Development Programme
Salma Zeb, based in Peshawar, is a legal and development expert with 23 years of experience, including 12 years with UNDP's Rule of Law Programme. Her work focuses on justice reform and gender parity, promoting access to justice and legal empowerment. She holds an LLB from the University of Peshawar and an MS in Project Management.
Abdul Rehman Lodhi
Co-founder & Executive Director, Each One Teach One (EOTO) Foundation
Rehman is the Co-founder of EOTO Foundation, an organization that works for out of school, underprivileged, and street children of Pakistan. EOTO's unconventional schooling model has a milestone impact, especially on street children. With unconventional learning methodologies, EOTO is a bridge for street children to get quality education when no one allows them to get that. Rehman is a business graduate from University of Lahore, Gujrat.
Irfan Anwar
CEO, Easy Taleem Private Limited
Irfan currently serves as the CEO of Stage Nomad, a storytelling and content production company. This role has equipped him with deep experience in narrative design, brand strategy, team leadership, and stakeholder management—skills that he now applies to his work in education through Easy Taleem.
Over the years, he has also volunteered time and content for underserved students during exam retake seasons, offering free-of-cost academic support, designed and led online learning programs that reached students in remote areas, often creating the only access they had to structured academic support, and created and launched a nationally-aired sitcom on PTV, showing his ability to take ideas from concept to scale—even in resource-constrained environments.
Shafeeq Gigyani
Founder, The Enlight Lab
Shafeeq is a social entrepreneur and community builder leading The Enlight Lab, a Social Innovation Lab focused on youth empowerment, entrepreneurship, and civic engagement in Pakistan. With a background in Law and Political Science, he also co-leads the Peshawar Circle book club and advocates for renewable energy access through his solar business. His work bridges innovation, culture, and grassroots development.
Sahrish Kashif
Project Manager, Karishma Ali Foundation
Sahrish is a project manager at the Karishma Ali Foundation, where she designs and leads community sports and menstrual health awareness programs for underserved communities. She holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and completed advanced training in reproductive health and rights with Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi. As a member of the Dastak network and a One Future Collective fellow, she mobilizes diverse communities to advance menstrual health management, gender equality and social justice.