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MNA
Marvi Memon
Chairperson of Benazir Income Support Programme Minister of State
Incumbent
Assumed office
25 February 2015
PresidentMamnoon Hussain
Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif
Preceded byEnver Baig
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 June 2013
Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif
In office
March 2008 – 23 June 2011
Prime MinisterYousaf Raza Gillani
Succeeded byTanzeela Aamir Cheema
ConstituencyPunjab, Pakistan
Personal details
Born1972 (age 51–52)
Karachi, Sindh Province, Pakistan
Political partyPakistan Muslim League (N)
RelationsNisar Memon (father)
Alma materLondon School of Economics

Marvi Memon (Template:Lang-ur) is a Pakistani politician who is the current Chairperson of the Benazir Income Support Programme with the status of Minister of State in the third Sharif ministry. Memon has been an elected member of the National Assembly of Pakistan as a member of the PML-N from Sindh. She served as a member of the National Assembly between 2008 and 2012 as a member of PML-Q.

Early life and education

Memon was born in July 1972 in Karachi, Sindh, to Nisar Memon.[1]

Memon studied in Karachi, Kuwait City and Paris,[1][2] She then enrolled in the London School of Economics from where she received her B.A in International Relations.[3][4][5][1]

Professional career

Prior to joining politics, Memon worked as an intern at with DAWN, Newsline, Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, International Union for Conservation of Nature and the United States embassy in Islamabad.[2]

Memon worked as a banker[6] at Citibank where she specialized in Marketing and Quality Management[7] and later with Pakistan Television Corporation, before moving to launch Trakker, one of Pakistan’s largest vehicle tracking service provider which established her as an entrepreneur.[7] Memon joined the Inter-Services Public Relations in 2004 and served in its media monitoring and analysis wing until 2007. However, a dispute with the then Director General of the ISPR Major-General Shaukat Sultan saw her departing from ISPR.[8][5][4][5] She also worked as advisor to President of Pakistan on Media Management and on Investments.[7]

Political career

Memon joined Pakistan Muslim League (Q) in 2007, and was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan from Punjab in Pakistani general election, 2008[6] on reserved seat for women, and sat on opposition benches. Memon published two white papers on the Peoples Party's government’s corrupt practices in year 2009 and 2010.[8][5] Memon resigned from the National Assembly seat in 2011[9] and left the party after the PML-Q joined the Peoples Party led-coalition government.[10][11]

She is author of the memoir My Parliamentary Diaries[5], an account of everyday life of Memon as a parliamentarian which she launched in 2011.[12]

Memon joined PML(N) in 2012,[6] with a press conference alongside Nawaz Sharif, after months long rumours that she might join Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.[11][13][14][15]

According to the Free and Fair Election Network, she was the amongst the parliamentarians in the 13th National Assembly of Pakistan who introduced the third highest number of private members' bill.[6]

In 2013, she contested the NA-237 (Thatta-I) for National Assembly however lost to Shamas-un-Nisa.[16][14] However, she was re-elected as the member of the National Assembly for the second time on a reserved seat for women from Sindh.[17][18][16] Memon initially served as Prime minister’s youth wing coordinator[19] before she was appointed Chairperson of Benazir Income Support Programme with status of Minister of State in November 2015.[20][14][21]

In March 2017, Memon received the Speaker's Democracy Award by the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.[22][23] In April 2017, she was appointed as the member of the Advisory Council on Gender and Development at World Bank.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Ms. Marvi Memon profile". bisp.gov.pk. Benazir Income Support Programme. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Profile. Marvi Memon MNA". pncp.net. Retrieved 25 December 2016.
  3. ^ "Marvi Memon". DAWN.COM. 28 April 2013. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  4. ^ a b "A glance at Sindh's female election hopefuls". DAWN.COM. 7 May 2013. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Marvi Memon". DAWN.COM. 28 April 2013. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  6. ^ a b c d e "Marvi Memon appointed to WB Advisory Council on Gender and Development". DAWN.COM. 24 April 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  7. ^ a b c "World Bank Advisory Council on Gender and Development". World Bank. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  8. ^ a b "The journey from Hilal Road to Raiwind". Pakistan Today. 5 March 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  9. ^ "Resignation of Marvi Memon accepted". DAWN.COM. 23 June 2011. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  10. ^ "Voting against the budget: Marvi Memon resigns from NA, PML-Q - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 23 June 2011. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  11. ^ a b "Marvi Memon announces decision to join PML-N". DAWN.COM. 4 March 2012. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  12. ^ Newspaper, From the (27 August 2011). "Collection of Marvi's parliamentary diaries launched". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  13. ^ "Supporting Musharraf was political blunder: Marvi Memon". DAWN.COM. 14 March 2012. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  14. ^ a b c "Marvi Memon appointed as BISP chairperson". www.thenews.com.pk. 25 February 2015. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  15. ^ "Gross mistake, realised in time not to join PTI: Marvi Memon - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 15 March 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  16. ^ a b "PML-N nominates Marvi Memon for NA reserved seat - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 26 May 2013. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  17. ^ "PML-N secures most reserved seats for women in NA - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 28 May 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  18. ^ "Women, minority seats allotted". DAWN.COM. 29 May 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  19. ^ "Loan scheme launched in Fata". DAWN.COM. 19 January 2014. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  20. ^ "Marvi Memon to head BISP". DAWN.COM. 26 February 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  21. ^ "Marvi Memon appointed as BISP chairperson". Dunya News. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  22. ^ "Speaker's Democracy Award - inaugural winner announced". parliament.uk. 30 March 2017. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  23. ^ "Marvi Memon conferred Speaker's Democracy Award by UK parliament". DAWN.COM. 31 March 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
Political offices
Preceded by Chairperson of Benazir Income Support Programme
2015 		Incumbent
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