Yawar Ali Khan is a social development and human rights specialist with fifteen years of experience working with national institutions, international organizations and government partners. His work focuses on social safeguards, institutional reform and the integration of international human rights standards into public policy. He has extensive experience with the World Bank’s Environmental and Social Framework, where he supports multiple projects on inclusion, stakeholder engagement and grievance redress.

He has led nationwide capacity-building efforts for federal ministries, provincial human rights departments, treaty implementation cells, judges and prosecutors. His training programs on international human rights reporting and human rights in criminal justice have been formally adopted into institutional curricula. His previous work with the EU, UNDP and other development actors includes policy drafting, legal reform, and designing systems that strengthen accountability and rights-based governance.

Yawar holds an LLM in Globalisation and Laws with a specialization in human rights from Maastricht University, and an LLB (Hons) from the University of London. He has authored several training packages and research reports and is fluent in English, Urdu and Pashto.