Dr Rakhshinda Perveen is a public health, gender and development specialist, researcher, writer and social entrepreneur with more than three decades of experience. A medical doctor by training, she has worked with United Nations agencies and development organisations, and was previously Senior Gender Adviser for South Asia to the Government of Canada. She has taught and written on gender justice, public health, feminism and economic policy, bringing an interdisciplinary perspective to questions of inequality and institutional responsibility. She is associated with Kafe Kaam Digital. Her book ‘A Tax Break for Economic Freedom?’ examines the economic circumstances of Pakistani women whose needs are often overlooked in mainstream policy debate.