Join the American Pakistan Foundation and The Atlantic Council for a conversation with Ambassador Sherry Rehman, President of The Jinnah Institute, on how the pandemic has transformed Pakistani society and the resulting pressures faced by people and institutions. Ambassador Rehman will also discuss the extensive work of The Jinnah Institute, an independent policy research and public advocacy think tank in Pakistan, to understand and combat the coronavirus outbreak in Asia.

Speakers:

Ambassador Sherry Rehman is Parliamentary Leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in Senate, as well as the party’s Vice-President. She is the Founding Chair and serving President of the Jinnah Institute, Chair of the Climate Change Caucus in Parliament, Chair of the CPEC Committee in Senate and Chair of PPP’s Committee on Foreign Affairs. She is a third-term Parliamentarian, diplomat, journalist, and civil society activist who has received Pakistan’s highest civil award, the Nishan-e-Imtiaz. Rehman has served as the Leader of Opposition in Senate, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States and Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting. She has held additional portfolios of Health, Women Development, and Culture as a Federal Minister. Rehman has received several awards including the title of Democracy’s Hero; The Freedom Award for her work for media independence; the International Peace Award for Democrats; and the Jeanne Kirkpatrick Award for Women. Identified as one of the Top Global Thinkers of 2011 by Foreign Policy magazine, she was cover-titled by Newsweek Pakistan as “Pakistan’s Most Important Woman”.

Shamila N. Chaudhary (moderator) is President of the American Pakistan Foundation and foreign policy practitioner specializing in U.S. foreign policy in South Asia. She is a Senior South Asia Fellow at the Washington D.C. think tank New America and a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.