Business & Entrepreneurship

Aisha Kamran Siddiqui

Entrepreneurship Scholar and Development Professional

Women Business Development Center

Lahore · English

Biography

Aisha Kamran Siddiqui is an entrepreneurship scholar and development professional with more than two decades of experience across academia, SME policy and women’s enterprise development. As a former Project Director at the Women Business Development Center, she led women’s business-incubation and development initiatives at SMEDA. She has also held teaching appointments at Alasalah Colleges and Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University in Saudi Arabia. She holds a PhD in Entrepreneurship and focuses on women’s enterprise development, incubation, entrepreneurship policy and ecosystem-building.

Areas of expertise

• Women’s enterprise development
• business incubation
• SME policy
• entrepreneurship education
• entrepreneurial ecosystems

Key achievements

Led Pakistan’s first Women’s Business Incubation Center, supporting more than 250 women-led enterprises. Directed initiatives that trained over 150 women entrepreneurs and delivered more than 100 training programmes. Contributed to Pakistan’s first SME Policy (2005) and co-authored five intellectual-property guides for Pakistani SMEs with WIPO. Holds a PhD in Entrepreneurship from the University of Malaysia Sarawak.

International experience

Asia

Lecturer at Alasalah Colleges Dammam Lecturer at Immam Abdurrehman Bin Faisal University, Dammam

Engagement interests

Speaker · Panelist · TV / Radio · Podcast · Mentor · Training

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