Minahil Asim

Minahil Asim is an assistant professor of education leadership, policy, and program evaluation in the School of Education at the University of Ottawa, where she studies education reforms and policies aimed at improving learning outcomes and educational trajectories for disadvantaged students. Her research explores the role of educational leadership, school management, and direct student support in fostering academic success. Asim employs mixed methods, quasi-experimental strategies, process tracing methodologies, and field experiments, with projects in Pakistan and Ghana. Her work has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada, the J-PAL Post-Primary Education Initiative, Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), the World Bank Group, and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Asim earned a BSc and an MSc in economics from the Lahore University of Management Sciences, an MA in international comparative education from Stanford University, and a PhD in education policy from the University of California, Davis.

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