Maham Naweed is an international lawyer with a Master’s degree in Law from Yale Law School, USA, and a Bachelor of Law from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (“LUMS”). She had worked as Consultant (MP-III) at the International Dispute Unit of the Office of the Attorney-General for Pakistan. She has been a part of the team that has represented the Federal Government of Pakistan in historic international legal cases such as the Indus Waters case and national security issues with India. She has also worked at the Paris office of the international law firm, Shearman & Sterling LLP in the Public International Law and International Arbitration group. She has taught as an Adjunct Professor at LUMS and the Institute of Law. Her areas of interest and research expertise include public international law, particularly international human rights law, laws of conflict, and national security laws.