Ms Shandana Khan is CEO Rural Support Programmes Network, Pakistan - the largest, non-governmental development network of Pakistan. As its key driving force, she leads this vast development network, seeing it is a challenge she enjoys. Ms Khan has strong networking and leadership skills that enable her to provide strategic direction to this countrywide network. She has strong advocacy skills and has succeeded in having policy input into government and donor strategies. She has been a senior member of numerous government policy committees and task forces, providing input into public sector poverty reduction strategies by bringing years of RSP grassroots successes to such policy forums.  She has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Delhi University, India, a Tripos in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Masters in International Public Policy from the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University, USA.