Zahra Mansoor is a Graduate Student Fellow at CERP. She is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford for the Deliver Education Reforms Project DeliverEd. She works in close collaboration with governments in low- and middle-income countries across South Asia and Africa to answer research questions pertaining to Service Delivery, Policy implementation, Civil service reform, and Evidence-based decision-making. Dr Zahra’s research has a sectoral focus on Education, and (more recently) Gender. Her Research has been funded by the International Growth Centre (IGC), Economic Development Institutions (EDI), the World Bank, and the University of Oxford. Previously, she was a governance consultant at the World Bank where she worked in collaboration with the Agriculture, Education, Health, and Planning Departments across the Punjab and Sindh provinces in Pakistan to implement technology-based reforms for improving Service Delivery. She has also worked as a Research and Training Manager at CERP to design curriculum and deliver training to Bureaucrats and Politicians on evidence-based decision-making, and as an Economist at the IGC to manage research-policy engagement across Zambia, Bangladesh, and Mozambique. Dr Zahra holds a DPhil in Public Policy from the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and a MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.