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The Democracy andGovernance Foundation

Islamabad · PakistanSection 42, Companies ActPublic launch · 2026
Governance & team

Led by a board. Run by a working team.

The Foundation is governed by a Board of Directors appointed under its Articles of Association, supported by an Advisory Council of public-interest experts, and run day-to-day by a lean leadership team.

Board of Directors
Leadership
Advisory Council
SF

[Director Name]

Chairperson
Independent director · 25+ years in civic-sector leadership and democratic-governance programming across South Asia.
MR

[Director Name]

Vice-Chair
Political analyst, journalist and electoral-reform specialist. Two decades of work on parliamentary monitoring and elections.
HZ

[Director Name]

Director — Governance
Organisational governance, human capital and SECP compliance expertise across non-profit and for-profit sectors.
GA

[Director Name]

Director — Programmes
Programme strategy, institutional partnerships and field operations. Led multi-province civic programmes since 2010.
NZ

[Director Name]

Director — Rights
Gender, rights-based programming and community research with a focus on women's political participation.
AA

[Director Name]

Director — DemTech
Civic technology, data infrastructure and digital advocacy. Founder of multiple open-source civic platforms.
SB

[Director Name]

Company Secretary
Corporate governance, SECP compliance and statutory reporting. Independent secretariat function, by design.
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Full governance pack

Bye-laws · CoC · Annual reports
Download the complete governance and transparency documentation.

The team that does the actual work.

Lean by design, deep where it counts. Researchers, technologists and communicators with combined experience across electoral observation, civic technology, parliamentary monitoring, market research and environmental science.

XX

[Executive Director]

Foundation lead
Day-to-day leadership and external representation. Reports to the board.
XX

[Director, Research]

Research methodology
Cross-cutting methodological lead across all five focus areas.
XX

[Director, Programmes]

Programme operations
Field operations, partnership management and grant delivery.
XX

[Director, DemTech]

Civic technology
DemTech Commons engineering, partner onboarding and tool roadmap.

We're hiring.

Researchers, fellows, civic technologists, data analysts. Roles open across all five focus areas, with field deployments across all four provinces.

See open roles & fellowships