Noor Akbar
Programme Manager- NIHR
Presently Noor Akbar is working as Programme Manager with the National Institute for Health & Care research (NIHR) UK. Prior to joining NIHR Noor worked as Programme Coordinator with the Commonwealth Local Government Forum. And before that worked as Research Associate in the project Tolerance in Muslim Politics: Political Theory beyond the ‘West’ at King’s College London. He has been working in local and international non-profit organizations for more than fifteen years in various capacities and across a range of thematic areas, such as conflict resolution and human rights.
He holds master’s degree in human Rights from Roehampton University, UK, Gothenburg University, Sweden and Tromso University, Norway in 2010 under the European Union’s Erasmus Mundus Scholarship programme. As part of the master’s in human Rights dissertation Noor has conducted research on the topic, “Women's Rights in FATA Pakistan: A Critical Review of NGOs' Communication Strategies for Project Implementation”. The research is published as a monograph.