Professor Anjum Halai brings extensive experience in higher education in low & middle income countries. She obtained her doctoral degree from Oxford University UK. She was an adjunct professor at the University of Alberta Canada (2011-2016) and a research fellow at the Centre for International Education and Development Sussex University UK. Her research interests are in social justice issues in education. She has published widely in the area of gender and education.

Dr. Halai has a sustained interest in mathematics education. Based on her significant contribution to the field of mathematics education she was elected as the Vice President (2021-24) in the globally influential Executive Committee of the International Commission of Mathematical Instruction.