Puruesh Chaudhary

Puruesh Chaudhary (born 26 January 1983) is a Pakistani futures researcher and media development practitioner. She is the founder and president of Agahi, a non-governmental organisation focused on media capacity building in Pakistan. Chaudhary is also a Distinguished Fellow at the Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad.

Career

Chaudhary holds a master's degree in International Negotiation and Policymaking from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

Her professional work has included research and consulting for multilateral organisations, government entities, media institutions, and private-sector organisations in Pakistan. Through Agahi, she has overseen projects including the Pakistan Foresight Initiative, which develops frameworks intended to support public policy and strategic planning. She has contributed to foresight research, including a compilation examining possible futures for Pakistan to 2060, and co-authored a chapter in The Future of Business.

She co-founded the Agahi Awards, an annual journalism recognition programme in Pakistan, and has been involved in the development of tools including the Media Credibility Index and the Ethical Media Audit. She has collaborated with the Department Of DeFence and Strategic Studies at Quaid-i-Azam University on foresight research fellowships,

and has served as Pakistan ambassador for the Centre of International Media Ethics.

Her other affiliations have included advisory roles with the Centre of International Media Ethics and the UN-Habitat Youth Fund Programme. She is an alumna of the National Defence University and has been associated with the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers community, the Aspen Institute, the World Futures Society, and the Millennium Project's planning committee.

In 2012, Chaudhary presented the work of Agahi at a TEDxNUST event in Islamabad.