Zaheen zada
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Research Associate
Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad • Full-time
Jan 2021 - Present • 5 yrs 8 mos
I have over five years of research and policy experience at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), working across economic, industrial, and social-sector research. My background includes demand-driven policy research, investment and regulatory diagnostics — currently contributing to the RASTA-funded Pakistan Investment, Regulatory and Operational Diagnostic (PIROD) — and nationally representative household surveys such as the World Bank-funded Pakistan Panel Household Survey. I have also worked on donor- and UN-partnered research addressing gender parity and access to justice, in partnership with NCSW, UNESCO, the Ministry of Human Rights, UNDP, and UN Women. My core expertise spans research design and questionnaire development, field operations and enumerator training, data scraping, cleaning, and structuring, and translating primary and secondary evidence into policy-relevant datasets and reports. I am proficient in Excel, SurveyCTO, EViews, OxMetrics, and RStudio, with developing skills in Python for research automation