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Hina Akram
Associate Director Advisory
Public Private Partnership Authority (P3A)
Biography
Hina Akram is Associate Director, Advisory at Pakistan’s Public Private Partnership Authority (P3A), where she reports additional responsibility for environmental, social, gender and climate matters across federal public-private partnership projects. Her career spans grassroots women’s-rights programming and national infrastructure policy. Earlier roles included work with the AAWAZ programme and Tabeer, followed by public-private partnership policy and project work at Punjab’s Planning and Development Board and the Ministry of Railways. Her submitted experience includes gender-responsive policy, infrastructure finance and transport initiatives. She holds an MS in Project Management and an MBA in Finance and reports PMP, APMG PPP and CMMI credentials.
Areas of Expertise
Gender mainstreaming · Women empowerment · Gender and inclusive infrastructure · Project & Programme Delivery Management · Public Private Partnerships · Donor-Funded Programme Management · Capacity Building & Knowledge Sharing
Selected Experience & Achievements
AAWAZ work contributed to policy and legislative advocacy around the Punjab Protection of Women Against Violence Act 2016, Child Marriage Restraint Act, and Anti-Honour Killing and Anti-Rape laws; supported the registration of 300,000+ women voters and contributed to initiatives through which 2.65 million women obtained CNICs.
Through the Tabeer Programme, contributed to a campaign that helped 180,000+ women obtain a CNIC for the first time, enabling greater access to civic and socio-economic opportunities.
Contributed to the development of Punjab’s VGF guidelines and the Punjab PPP Ordinance 2019, supporting the institutionalization of PPPs in Punjab.
At Pakistan Railways, worked on the PPP policy framework and major infrastructure initiatives, including the Dedicated Freight Corridor with DP World and ML-3 bridge financing involving Reko Diq Mining Company.
Entrusted with additional responsibility for environmental, social, gender and climate (ESG&C) safeguards across the Federal Government’s PPP project portfolio, strengthening the consideration of inclusive and sustainable outcomes in project design and delivery.
Selected for Women Trailblazers in Transport and Logistics (2025); presented Inclusive Rails: A Railway for Everyone at Melbourne Business School.
PMP®, APMG Certified PPP Professional (all 3 levels), CMMI Associate; MS Project Management, MBA Finance.
My career represents a distinctive transition from grassroots women's empowerment to national infrastructure policy. My work demonstrates that gender equality and social inclusion do not have to remain separate from large-scale infrastructure and investment decisions they can be incorporated into the frameworks through which infrastructure is planned, financed and delivered. My experience sits at a relatively uncommon intersection in Pakistan: women’s rights, PPP transaction advisory, transport infrastructure, and environmental, social, gender and climate safeguards.
Engagement interests
Speaker · Panelist · TV / Radio · Podcast · Mentor · Training