Dr Javeria Swathi has around 20 years’ experience of sector-wide program design, delivery, management, oversight, research, monitoring and evaluation. She led large-scale initiatives at senior management and leadership positions in humanitarian, transitional and developmental contexts. This enriching experience stretched across program portfolios of health, nutrition, WASH, education, governance, social accountability, gender mainstreaming, women empowerment, community engagement, and community-driven-state-led service delivery mechanisms. The focus of her enriching experience revolves around fostering partnership with multitude of actors engaged in the efficient and effective program delivery such as different layers and levels of government governance architecture, donors, institutions, and communities. She brings extensive field experience of participatory and inclusive local planning, institutional strengthening, system development, and advancing local-led development by deploying local capacity building approaches. In recognition to her work on the frontline of global development, on occasion of 2017 international women day, Centre for Development Results (CDR) listed her as one among eight women globally for leading transformative change, empowering communities, delivering large scale development programs for sustainable change, and overturning ingrained biases. She is a medical doctor (MBBS from Khyber Medical University, Peshawar, Pakistan) with postgraduate qualification in MS Public Health in Disaster (Oviedo University, Spain and Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden), and Master’s in Public Health (MPH) from Sarhad University of Information Technology, Pakistan.