Dr Aliya Hashmi Khan is a Retired Professor of Economics and former Dean Faculty of Social Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. She is currently a member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (EAC) and a member of the Labor Expert Group (LEG) under the “Ehsaas” Social Protection Program of the Government of Pakistan. She has served as an Independent Member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), as an Independent Director on the Board of State Life Insurance Corporation of Pakistan (SLIC) and as Central Labor Advisor at the Federal Ministry of Labor, Manpower & Overseas Pakistanis. She is currently serving on the Board of National Institute of Banking and Finance (NIBAF), State Bank of Pakistan, on the Board of Governors of Aurat Foundation and on the Syndicate of Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU), Rawalpindi. She is associated in an advisory capacity as a Macro Economist and Labor Economist with various committees of the Planning Commission of Pakistan and Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) as well as with international organizations including International Labor Organization (ILO), UNDP, UN Women, World Bank & ADB. She has represented Pakistan in an Asian regional project on “Women and the Future of Work in Asia” implemented by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Asia Office in Singapore. She was awarded the President’s Medal – Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah 2010 in the category of Higher Education. The citation reads “ In recognition of services rendered for economic empowerment of women by way of teaching and research”