Atiyab Sultan is a career civil servant in the Pakistan Administrative Service since 2016. She holds MPhil and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge and an MSBA (Strategy) from Olin Business School, Washington University in St Louis, USA. She has published an academic monograph, A Broken Record: Institutions, Community and Development in Pakistan (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and co-edited The Gazetteer of the Lahore District (Government of the Punjab/Sang-e-Meel Publications, 2022), along with several journal articles. Her current research focuses on gender, migration and the bureaucracy and is informed both by her academic training and her experiences working as a civil servant in Pakistan.
