Country Director
Serving as Pakistan Country Director, Madiha Latif is an experienced systems interventionist and has been a Pathfinder since 2019, when she joined as the Program Manager for Beyond Bias, a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation investment aimed towards enabling young people’s access to contraception. In 2022 Madiha served as the Deputy Country Director to Pathfinder Pakistan, soon after which she took on a new role as the Chief of Staff for the SA/MENA Region, when she undertook special assignments across the region in partnership with all country programs.
In addition to her technical and management experience in family planning, Madiha is credited with conceptualizing and leading teams towards implementing innovative designs on the Climate Change and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) intersections in Pakistan with support from global donors. She also successfully led upon the multi-sectoral work on gender-based violence response in Sindh and institutionalized the very first multi-sectoral response mechanism led by the government itself.
Over the years Madiha has led projects that take an intersectional lens to sexual and reproductive health and rights, and gender. She has contributed to women’s rights legislation, worked with the Sindh Commission on the Status of Women’s, and collaborated with Women’s Action Forum, Dastageer, and Aurat Foundation in assisting acid survivors to access justice.