As Vice-President and founding member of Teach the World Foundation, I have had a key role in developing an innovative digital learning model to tackle foundational learning and literacy through play-based approaches. The flagship The Digital MicroSchool model is a one-room school that used adaptive game-based learning products, gamification, low-cost digital devices and analytics to deliver foundational numeracy and literacy in a completely self-paced and student driven environment. It has been deployed with excellent proven results in Pakistan, Bangladesh, South Sudan and Malawi with 20,000+ out-of-school children, in varied challenging settings, from urban slums to refugee camps and remote Himalayan villages. Students outperform students in traditional schools, achieving at least 1.5X- 2X learning gains, as measured by independent third parties across time, multiple geographies, and environments. Through my efforts, we have secured a pipeline of more than USD ~$7.5M already to scale the Digital MicroSchool model with the Govt. of Sindh, Pakistan with 125 pilot MicroSchools in Phase 1 already established and a further 300 schools, impacting 30,000 students, being established in 2026-27 in Phase 2, with a commitment to further scale the model in the next 3-5 years across the province to impact millions.

I was recently awarded the 2026 Forty Under 40 Global Award in recognition of the work I have done at Teach the World Foundation and part of the prestigious Now Go Build CTO Fellowship, an invite-only fellowship run by the CTO and Vice-President of Amazon, Dr. Werner Vogels. I was also the 2025 EDSAFE AI Alliance Catalyst Fellow, which brought together leaders on the supply and demand side to reimagine education as a learning system enabled by AI, as well as participating in the AI for Changemakers program, a 3-year accelerator program dedicated to amplifying the impact of ambitious nonprofits by partnering them with socially engaged tech companies specialising in AI. I also took part in the 2025-2026 Eahou Global Immersion Cohort, a cohort of local and global leaders explore that explored how ancestral knowledge, technology, and entrepreneurship intersect to shape a regenerative, inclusive economy, and the 2026 Analytics for a Better World Impact Accelerator for Data Science, a non-profit accelerator that paired mission‑driven organizations with top data science, AI, and optimization experts to solve SDG‑aligned challenges and build lasting analytics capacity.