Staff Category: Staff

SAMUEL SAMI has done his I.COM from Commerce College Islamabad. He has been serving Center since 2011. He has nearly eleven years of progressive experience. Before joining Center, Sami was working with Christian World Service where he served as an Admin Assistant for five years. Being there, he volunteered during the 2005 earthquake in different areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. At Center, Sami provides assistance to the administration and finance departments.

SANAULLAH QUADRI is a young professional with nearly five years of experience in multidimensional organizations including the banking sector, with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry as well as with the nonprofit sector in public health domain. He has a master degree in Business Administration with a finance major. His areas of expertise are general administration, logistics and procurement. Currently, Sanaullah provides administrative support to Center, including donor compliance and vigilance in inventory management and procurement.

EHTESHAM ABBAS has a rich experience in Social and Behavior Change Communication, Advocacy, Capacity Strengthening, Knowledge Management, Institutional Development, with a systematic, in-depth understanding of development, government, and private sectors alike. He has 17 years of experience in leading large projects on a wide range of issues involving multilateral institutions. He has diverse experience in the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of large-scale development projects with a strong stakeholder engagement and strategic communications focus. He is especially known for creating opportunities & platforms for leading large-scale campaigns requiring a transmedia approach for narrative deployment across multiple mediums. At Center, he provides technical and managerial support for multiple projects as the Director of Programs and Operations. Previously, during specialized roles, he technically led multiple projects including the IFES Funded Women Voter Education Project, USAID Funded Health Communication Component, the GIZ Funded Labour Standards Program and the Support to Local Government (Logo), the DFID Funded Empowerment, Voice and Accountability Project as well as the UNDP Funded APNA PAKISTAN Project. Previously he was working for the leading communication and advertising companies as well as a communication consultant with various strategic departments of the Government. He has an MBA in Marketing and a Bachelors in Business Management. He is also an Alumni of the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Program’s “Leadership in Strategic Health Communications” Workshop.

MOHAMMAD RAFIQ has worked as a graphic designer for more than twenty years. His expertise in graphic design, website design & outdoor advertising. He is managing and creating different graphic design such as brochures, reports, posters, logos, magazines, presentations, banners, and publicity materials etc. He also worked at Sunrise Digital, TheNetwork for Consumer Protection, Manhattan Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd. and Adage Advertising.

TAHIR ABBAS has rich experience of working with diverse group of people especially religious leaders, journalists and social activists at the grassroots level. His areas of expertise include networking with community leaders, communication, project designing and management and monitoring and evaluation. At Center, he manages its network of religious leaders, journalists, screen and script writers for the DFID- funded Empowerment, Voice and Accountability Project. He has a master degree in International Relations from Quaid e Azam University Islamabad. He is fluent in English, Urdu and Punjabi languages.