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My 25 years of experience includes policy development, program implementation, governance, project management, business development, marketing strategy, systems monitoring and solution deployment within the environmental technology and public policy sectors. My project portfolio has employed market research, project/contract management, econometrics, value chain analysis, accountability mechanisms, best practices and transparency based instruments; to better serve the efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability objectives of organizational strategy.
I currently serve as a Visiting Fellow with Islamabad’s Sustainable Development Policy Institute, where I strive to facilitate north south knowledge transfer between civil and civic service actors and research on issues related to sustainable development, political economy, administrative development and municipal governance and utility management. My interests at present are focussed on the intersection between the informal sector and sustainable urban development at Ryerson’s Faculty of Politics and Public Administration, as a Lecturer and Researcher.
Faisal is an alumnus of Ryerson University (Masters in Public Policy and Administration), York University (MBA in Business and Environment) and the University of Toronto (Honors Baccalaureate in Biology and Environmental Science).
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I am Professor of Public Policy at the University of Exeter.
My current research focuses on gendering policy attention and action and making gender equality implementation inclusive. I convene, together with Amy Mazur, the International Research Network on Gender Equality Policy in Practice, which investigates the politics of implementing gender equality across policy sectors in Europe and North America.
I am Editor-in-Chief of the ECPR flagship journal European Journal of Political Research and Founding Editor of the European Journal of Politics and Gender.
Last but not least, I believe in service. I served as Convener of the European Conference of Politics and Gender from 2011 to 2019, as Convener of the ECPR Standing Group in Gender and Politics from 2011 to 2019 and Founding Chair of the Council for European Studies Research Network in Gender and Sexuality Studies. I currently serve as Vice-President of the International Public Policy Association and on the Advisory Board of the European Politics and Society Section of APSA.