With over a decade of international experience, Maliha specializes in translating complex development challenges into actionable strategies. Her work spans documentary heritage and collective memory, information governance and press freedom, humanitarian communication, climate adaptation, strategic partnerships, and narrative design for cultural institutions. She moves fluidly between policy design and heritage preservation, field research and institutional strategy, designing communication systems for displaced populations, conducting research on gender-based violence in post-conflict settings, leading resource mobilization, evaluating humanitarian interventions, and developing inclusive curatorial narratives. From 2022 to 2024, Maliha served as Specialist in UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme at headquarters in Paris, contributing to heritage initiatives across the Arab region with particular focus on Saudi Arabia. As Head of the Communication and Information Unit at UNESCO Islamabad, she led portfolios on press freedom, journalist safety, media literacy, and access to information while expanding partnerships and pioneering private-sector resource mobilization through UNESConnect. Earlier, she progressed through multiple positions at the International Organization for Migration in Pakistan and worked as researcher with the International Center for Violence Research at Bielefeld University in Germany, conducting comparative analysis across Pakistan, Egypt, El Salvador, and Peru. She has provided consultancy to UNDP and the Pakistan Center for Philanthropy. Maliha holds a Master's in Peace and Conflict Studies from the International University of Japan and a Bachelor's in Environmental Sciences from COMSATS University. At Manāra, she guides strategic direction and quality while leading The Reading Room and The Caravanserai, spaces created to move ideas out of academic and development enclosures into conversation with communities, culture, and lived experience. She has little patience for jargon or performative complexity and is known for cutting through to what actually matters. Outside formal work, she is currently learning transmedia storytelling and art and culture management, is a devoted consumer of pop culture commentary and dystopian sci-fi, and continues her on-again, off-again situationship with the French language.