Hira Batool Rizvi

I am a returning Fulbright Scholar of Pakistan. I have completed a Master of Science degree in Public Policy from Georgia Tech, USA with a focus on Energy and Technology Policy. This interdisciplinary degree included courses in energy policy, renewable resources, global energy security, policy analysis, statistical techniques and economics. During my time in the US, I gained hands-on experience in consulting by providing program evaluation and energy consulting services to EMC's like Habersham USA, the Office of Planning of the City of Atlanta, at Deloitte Consulting as a consulting intern and founded the National Science Policy Group(NSPG) Chapter at Gatech, in collaboration with MIT's Science Policy Initiative and NSPG Global. My undergraduate degree was in Electrical Engineering(2011) and I have also worked as a software developer, physics teacher and as a young parliamentarian in Pakistan. Areas of Interest: Science/Technology & Energy Policy, Renewable Resources, Management of Technology, Resource Mapping(GIS), Global Energy Security Skills: Analysis, Evaluation, Public Administration, Statistical Programming, Qualitative and Quantitative Research Software expertise: Programming(C,C++,Assembly,Verilog), R/RStudio, Matlab, Adobe Photoshop 7-CS3, MS Office Suit, STATA, GIS, ArcGIS