Mejzgaan Orakzai is a Fulbright Scholar who graduated in 2015 with a Master’s degree in Policy Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Currently, she is working as a Digital Financial Services (DFS) Analyst at Karandaaz Pakistan and also worked as a Visiting Faculty member at the NUST Business School, Islamabad where she taught Business Mathematics. Prior to receiving the Fulbright, she started her professional career as a Research Analyst at Research and Development Solutions (RADS) -a public health research company –and contributed to numerous studies and policy briefs relating to Family Planning and Maternal and Child Health.