Analyst

FATIMA NOOR AFTAB

929-***-**** ******@********.*** LinkedIn: fatima-aftab

EXPERIENCE

WORLD BANK GROUP USA

Consultant - South Asia and Africa Jan 2025 – Present

• Economic analysis lead for $500M multi sector transport and urban program to improve health and climate outcomes

• Produce concept notes and presentations for senior leadership to strategize for decarbonizing transport Analyst for Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation (FCI) Practice Jan – July 2024

• Advanced a $150M micro finance project for the Central Bank to enhance resilience through a climate risk facility, guarantee facility and piloting sustainable agri-fintech services

• Organized a symposium of 200+ stakeholders to promote investments, sustainability and connectivity in tourism

• Assessed and tracked portfolio budget of $1.2B, ensuring effective allocation and alignment with program objectives

• Advised on financial sector stability and business regulatory reforms, enhancing private sector competitiveness

• Focal person for climate finance liaising with FCDO, UN and assessed financial preparedness for crisis response Consultant for Transport Practice Dec 2021 – Dec 2023

• Built and maintained strong client relations, acting as a trusted advisor for strategic and operational challenges

• Led end to end project lifecycle engagement of $400M, from strategy to evaluation, delivering policy and investment insights on urban mobility, freight, and roads to advance health and economic outcomes with ministries

• Conducted post disaster needs analysis, economic modeling and cost benefit analysis for infrastructure projects

• Led multi-stakeholder engagements using research, interviews, and workshops to align on strategic EV objectives

• Presented a $100M national gender mobility program to Country Director to improve female labor participation

• Secured funding of $1M developing trust fund proposals on disaster resilience, railways and electric mobility

• Presented in two international conferences findings of geospatial accessibility analysis to services in Pakistan FEROZSONS LABORATORIES LTD. Pakistan

Public health specialist for Havva, a health tech, and fintech initiative Dec 2021 – Dec 2022

• Designed pilot for fintech-enabled female health workers; scoped strategic partners in digital finance and care delivery. Conducted feasibility modeling and business plan serving a target population of 300,000 people OXFORD POLICY MANAGEMENT Pakistan

Consultant for Sub-National Governance 2, £30 million program on improving governance May 2020 – Nov 2021

• Implemented fiscal reforms including climate, digitization and automation interventions; increasing revenue by 10%

• Established an equitable framework, substantiated by data modeling, to transfer $27B to local government

• Led a four-person team to improve budget forecasting and execution analyzing data and implementing tools to project medium-term fiscal frameworks, revenue, and expenditure streams

• Developed donor monitoring and evaluation reports, web content, newsletters to enhance transparency and visibility Research Associate, £460 million program to improve enrolment and health financing Aug 2019 – Apr 2020

• Evaluated $200M+ project producing key reports on PPPs, inclusive education, technical assistance and health financing. Presented findings to FCDO and senior government in 3 workshops BeWELL, a telemedicine startup Lahore, Pakistan

Co-founder Mar – Aug 2020

• Spearheaded business plan, designed two marketing campaigns and trained 20 doctors to improve healthcare access PRIMARY AND SECONDARY HEALTH DEPARTMENT PUNJAB Pakistan Consultant Oct 2016 – Apr 2017

• Strategized Roadmap for the Health Minister developing KPIs to address stunting and hepatitis; training 50 lady health workers and increasing breastfeeding rates and functional curative facilities from 200 to 540 for malnourished children EDUCATION

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, School of International and Public Affairs New York, NY Master of Public Administration cum laude; Fulbright scholar May 2019 Coursework: Economic Development, Econometrics, Decision Modeling, Capstone on financial inclusion in Uganda LAHORE UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES, Suleman Dawood School of Business Pakistan Bachelor of Science cum laude; Accounting and Finance May 2015 Teaching Assistant: Principles of Management, Principles of Macroeconomics, Introduction to IT PUBLICATIONS

• Co-author, “Accelerating electric mobility adoption in Pakistan”, Mobility and Development Periodical, 2024

• Co-author, “Pakistan: Devastating floods have widened spatial disparities”, blog, World Bank, 2023

• Co-author, “Midyear budget execution report 2020-2021”, Finance Department Punjab, 2021 SKILLS

• Data analysis & visualization, financial modeling, Python, STATA, Tableau, M&E, project and program management

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