Mariam Farooqi works as National Project Officer for Culture at the UNESCO Field Office in Islamabad. She is currently working on several UNESCO initiatives to safeguard tangible and intangible cultural heritage, and to integrate heritage and arts into learning in schools, museums, and cultural spaces.
She is a Fulbright alumna, and holds a Master’s degree in the History of Art and Archaeology from New York University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Humanities from the Lahore University of Management Sciences.