Lecturer and coordinator for paper 340 “Gender and development”, Centre of Development Studies, university of Cambridge. Biography: Her recent research and professional responsibilities have focused on International development, politics of governance and gender relations. She is currently working for the World Bank as a gender consultant for the Pakistan Trade and Investment policy program. Prior to that she worked as an evaluation consultant for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Rome, Italy. She also worked as a gender consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in Rome, Italy. The work focused on evaluation of the development initiatives of these organizations with a focus on gender, poverty, institutional efficiency and economic growth. Prior to her PhD she worked as urban economist for government of Punjab, in Pakistan. She has also worked as a research associate for the Anti-money laundering project, for the World Bank. Research Interests Maryam is the paper coordinator for Paper 340, “Gender and Development”, part of the MPhil in Development Studies. Her current research focuses on the gender and trade interface, with a special focus on Pakistan. Maryam is also involved in research that examines the performance of performance standards and their correlation to bureaucratic efficiency. Her previous research in the Centre of Development Studies investigated the lack of good governance in developing countries, by examining the inability of the bureaucrat to ensure development which remained correlated to erroneous performance assessment and political alignment. Her recent academic and professional research interests have focused on good governance, institutional efficiency, civil service performance, performance measurement, gender empowerment and poverty reduction. Teaching Maryam lectures in the Centre of development studies on Gender and development issues and on the “Mughals in the Pre-modern India”. Her lectures in south Asian studies focus on the political economy of policy design and implementation. She has also worked as a Lecturer in Development Economics in the Lahore School of Economics for MSc and BSc students. She was the lecturer in Development Economics in Cambridge tradition program, 2012.