Humaira Khan-Kamal
Humaira Khan-Kamal joined UNITAR in 1996, as a UNITAR Special Fellow, Training Associate, and from 2012 to 2016 as Senior Advisor to the UNITAR Fellowship for Afghanistan. In her first assignment at UNITAR she was directly involved in developing the UNITAR New York Office Work Program for Government Officials based in New York, leading the research, development, planning, and coordination of several training programs in specific thematic areas. These included courses on international trade,...See more
Humaira Khan-Kamal joined UNITAR in 1996, as a UNITAR Special Fellow, Training Associate, and from 2012 to 2016 as Senior Advisor to the UNITAR Fellowship for Afghanistan. In her first assignment at UNITAR she was directly involved in developing the UNITAR New York Office Work Program for Government Officials based in New York, leading the research, development, planning, and coordination of several training programs in specific thematic areas. These included courses on international trade, public-private partnerships for sustainable development, and policy issues in information and communication technologies, as well as workshops on basics in technology for senior policy makers and negotiators. With the opening of the UNITAR Hiroshima Office in 2003, Khan-Kamal took a leadership role in the overall design, launch, and management of the Fellowship project on post-conflict reconstruction and training in Afghanistan and served as program leader till 2011. Following that, as Senior Advisor, she remained involved in strategic planning and curriculum development of the program, in addition to delivering specific modules of training. Khan-Kamal was a Government of Japan scholar to the Lahore University of Management Sciences where she earned her master's in business administration. Her post-graduate work was focused on non-profit management and community empowerment projects. Prior to her work with UNITAR she worked with a non-profit project to set up the national cancer care hospital in Pakistan - Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Center. She is currently working as CEO of a health-care company in the United States.Khan-Kamal is one of the co-founders and coordinators of the Afghan Fellowship Legacy Projects (AFLP), created to distill the lessons learnt from the UNITAR Hiroshima Fellowship for Afghanistan and channel the experiences and, knowledge of this worldwide community towards future innovative and sustainable international development assistance initiatives. See less
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