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Zainab Ali
Zainab Ali is an intern at Data-Pop Alliance. She holds a BS degree in Economics from the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) and a MS degree in Gender, Development, and Globalization with Distinction from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her research interests center on feminist economics and policy, unpaid labor and informal labor markets, gender and climate change, capital flows and the feminisation of development, and gendered vulnerabilities in development contexts.
Previously, she worked as a Research Assistant at the Fund for Peace, where she focused on gendered considerations in fragile states, including unpaid care work, land rights, education, child marriages and gender-based violence. She also conducted desk research for organizations such as GIZ, African Development Bank, and the Islamic Development Bank on crime, criminality, policy, and gender dynamics in conflict-affected regions. She has also worked with SpringACT, a non-profit organization using technology for social good, as a Research Consultant. She contributed to SpringACT’s digital advocacy initiatives and research on sexism and imposter syndrome faced by women.
Zainab also volunteers as the Head of Strategy & Planning for QAAYIM, a grassroots organization founded by IBA alumni and students that aims to revive Karachi’s former greenery and mobilize youth efforts for environmental action.
Zainab’s passion lies in harnessing data-driven approaches to address social inequalities, particularly through an intersectional feminist lens. She is especially interested in how gender-sensitive data collection and digital advocacy can inform policy making and drive systemic change. While working on her dissertation, she encountered a severe lack of data on the contributions of stay-at-home mothers to their daughters’ educational attainment in Pakistan. This gap led her to collect her own data, reinforcing her commitment to context-based research and the need to make all women’s lived experiences visible.
She is also keen on exploring the role of technology in promoting human rights, ethical AI development, and the ways in which big data can be leveraged to tackle gendered vulnerabilities in economic and environmental crises. She believes in the power of interdisciplinary research and participatory methodologies to create more inclusive and equitable development solutions.