Ms. Maliha Hamid Hussein
Ms. Maliha Hamid Hussein works as an independent
development consultant. She is an economist with a broad range of development
experience in agriculture, irrigation, forestry, micro-finance, social sectors,
community participation and building for climate resilience. She has
considerable experience in project design, appraisal, supervision, monitoring,
evaluation, policy and institutional analysis.
Ms. Hussein has extensive experience of working in Pakistan, Afghanistan,
Albania, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bosnia-Herzegovina, China, Egypt, Georgia,
Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Maldives, Moldova, Mozambique,
Nepal, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Uganda and Yemen.
She has consulting experience with all the
major multilateral and bilateral agencies including the World Bank, the Asian
Development Bank, the Department for International Development (UK-Aid), GIZ, DGIS
(Netherlands), Canada, Switzerland, Norway, USAID, the United Nations
Development Programme, the International Fund for Agricultural Development
(IFAD), the World Food Programme, UNIFEM, Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO) and several international organizations such as the Aga Khan Foundation,
the Global Water Partnership, etc. Ms. Hussein was, for five years, a career
diplomat with the Pakistan Foreign Service (1978-82) and worked with the Aga
Khan Rural Support Programme in the high mountain areas of Pakistan for about
four years (1983-87).
Ms. Hussein
co-owned and co-managed a consulting firm (1989-2000) and has been working
independently since 2001. A graduate of
Punjab University, Ms. Hussein obtained her M.Sc. in agricultural economics
from Michigan State University and a certificate in international law,
economics and politics from Oxford University, UK.