Gulalai Khan

Gulalai Khan is a policy and digital inclusion practitioner with extensive experience in governance, gender, and technology policy. She teaches Pakistan’s first consolidated university level course on Internet Governance and Technology Policy at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), and works closely at the federal and provincial policy interventions. 

She is a member of the Government of Pakistan’s Steering Committe on Gender Digital Inclusion and works extensively on digital literacy training and advocacy initiatives across the country especially with women and adolescents. 

This year she trained more than 1500 women entrepreneurs and artisans across Pakistan on digital literacy and using digital for their benefit.

She is the founder of the Pakistan Professional Women Forum which provides mentorship and networking opportunities for professional women in Pakistan.

Ms Khan has an MSc in Communication Governance from the London School of Economics with research in Gender and the Third Level Digital Divide in Pakistan. She is also an alumnus of the Oxford Univeristy information Leadership programme as well as the European School of Internet Goverance, Germany.

She has led on the development of gender and taxation initiatives for women as well as Pakistan’s first ever women entrepreneurship policy (with digital as a main pillar) which is now with the cabinet for approval