Huma Chughtai is governance, gender & development, parliamentary & judicial reform specialist with her first degree in LL.B (Law & Sharia) and her second degree in LL.M (International Human Rights Law). She has a professional standing of almost thirty years of having worked initially as a Lawyer, then as an internationally trained Legislative Researcher in the Parliament of Pakistan, and later as a Governance, Law, Human Rights and Gender Specialist for over a decade and a half. Rights of women with disabilities, women in disasters and conflict, and gender and energy are some of the key areas she has worked in. Her focus of work has been reform based in the realm of parliamentary, legal, judicial, electoral, and law enforcement. Gender perspectives and human rights remain cross-cutting in all her work. Ms. Chughtai has served in various key positions within the government as well as within the development sector. Most of her work in the government has been of technical nature with the Parliament, Ministries of Women Development, Law & Justice, and Human Rights. She is currently serving as permanent faculty and Director Programs with the Federal Judicial Academy, where she designs judicial education programs for the judges, prosecutors and court staff as well as imparts training to them.