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Roshaneh Zafar
Pakistani development activist
Roshaneh Zafar (Urdu: روشانے ظفر) is a Pakistani development activist, working in the field of women's economic empowerment. She created the first specialised microfinance organisation in Pakistan, the Kashf Foundation, in 1996 which has served over 5 million women entrepreneurs across Pakistan and continues to pave the path for women's economic empowerment through its holistic financial services program.[1][2][3]
Career
Zafar was born and raised in Lahore, the daughter of Pakistani politician S.
M. Zafar and granddaughter of noted musician Malika Pukhraj.[4][5] After graduating from the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, Zafar studied development economics at Yale University and upon returning to Pakistan she worked for the World Bank in Islamabad in the early 90s.
In 1996, inspired by Bangladesh'sGrameen Bank and its founder Muhamma