Maheen Zahra

Maheen is a social protection expert with specialisation in case management systems, social care services, qualitative research, policy development, programme evaluations, and capacity development of social protection practitioners. At OPM, her work has focused on adaptive social protection, cash plus programming, child protection system strengthening, capacity-building of social workers as well as social protection practitioners and needs assessment of people with disabilities.  

Maheen holds an MSc in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford and a BA in Social Research and Public Policy from the New York University in Abu Dhabi.