UQ and Southern and Central Asia

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UQ's valued relationship with India has been strengthened by decades of academic and industry partnerships, student mobility, and commercialisation opportunities.

Collaboration in action

  • Public service is not usually the first career path MBA students think of, much less foreign affairs. For Australia’s High Commissioner to Pakistan, however, it has offered the chance to invest in business, development, culture, and human rights – all with the goal of world peace.
  • Shehenaz Ismail's pride in teaching psychology in the Maldives shines through when she describes her work.

    The University of Queensland Master of Counselling graduate is a lecturer at the Maldives National University, teaching neuropsychology, forensic psychology, cognitive psychology, and counselling psychology.
  • UQ School of Economics researcher Dr Thilak Mallawaarachchi will work alongside a team of expert development economists including the project’s lead Professor Sisira Jayasuiya, from Monash University, to study the policy and institutional reforms required to improve horticultural markets in Pakistan.
  • The University of Queensland has been awarded almost $1 million in the latest round of Federal Government New Colombo Plan mobility program funding.
  • Recent University of Queensland graduate and future global leader Muhammad Aamir is committed to eradicating poverty through increasing food security when he returns to Pakistan.
  • War survivor Nabi Sahak has a burning desire to change the world for the better, and he’s well on the way to doing so as he graduates with a University of Queensland Master of International Studies (Peace and Conflict Resolution) this week.

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Alumni

UQ has more than 1,100 alumni from Southern and Central Asia, including:

Pakistan

UNICEF Pakistan Officer in Charge/Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting Specialist (Masters of Development Practice 2007, International Alumnus of the Year 2017)
Pakistan

Economic Resilience consultant with expertise in the field of Food Security and Livelihoods; Former Action Against Hunger Agriculture Coordinator (Master of Rural Development 2016)