Maryam Shabbir did her MPhil in Environmental Policy and Management from Bahria University, Islamabad. She received a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sciences from Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi. She has a diploma on ‘Turn down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World must be Avoided’ from The World Bank. At present, she works as Project Associate on Climate Change and Gender. She mainly focuses gender mainstreaming into climate change policies through evident based research. Besides, she is the Coordinator – Digital Media. She usually writes on water governance, climate change, air & water pollution, and gender issues. She has authored a paper on ‘Chemical Contamination of Selected Heavy Metals in Ground Water, Roadside Soil and Vegetation, Taxila Area’ in 2013.