Ms Tayaba Batool is Adviser at Capacity Analytics, Pakistan. An economist and international trade and finance professional, she has more than 20 years of experience in research, analysis, policy formulation, long-term strategic and spatial planning, evidence-based decision-making, capacity building, and the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects and programmes. She also has experience in project management, progress review, coordination, resource mobilisation and business development with national and subnational governments. She has worked with key government institutions, including the Federal Board of Revenue, the Planning Commission and the Ministry of Commerce, and has collaborated with international organisations such as the World Bank, the International Trade Centre, the United States Agency for International Development, the United Nations Development Programme and the European Union. She has also contributed to advancing social protection in Pakistan through the establishment of the Social Protection Resource Centre and PASP. She holds an MPhil in Economics from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, and studied Economics at Texas A&M University, USA, as a Fulbright scholar.