Ayesha Khan

Ayesha Khan is a Director with the Collective for Social Science Research in Karachi, Pakistan. She studies gender and development, social policy and conflict/refugee issues in the region. The Women's Movement in Pakistan: Activism, Islam and Democracy (IB Tauris, 2018) is her first book.

During the 1990s Ayesha was based in Islamabad and worked as a journalist in international radio, local television, newspapers and magazines. She studied philosophy at Yale University and South Asian Studies at SOAS in London.