Mehjabeen Abidi Habib

Dr. Mehjabeen is a social ecologist and scholar of institutional innovations that change society based on social context, leadership, and adaptation in law and policy. In 2011, she completed her PhD on Resilience which was conferred by Government College University Lahore, with a fellowship to the University of Oxford.

She has served on Board of the Lahore Museum, Lahore Waste Management Company, National Steering Committee on REDD+ and Soan Valley Development Program in district Khushab and Advisor to the Pakistan Girl Guides Association. She was a Steering committee member of the LUMS-WWF Research Project on Climate Change and also member of the Lahore Zoo Advisory Committee. Dr. Abidi was also on the board of Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) International, a world-wide network of sustainability professionals. She is presently Advisor to the Heinrich Boll Stiftung Pakistan on Ecology and does international consulting with Emerald Network, a UK based climate change related company. Her professional work experience includes positions in Academia, the UN Civil Service and NGOs over 30 years. She is also director of Himaverte, a sustainable business enterprise that offers solar solutions, environmental consulting and a small recycled handmade paper business. She also holds distinction to be the lead author of ‘Water in the Wilderness’ published in 2016 by Oxford University Press Pakistan.