Aliya Iqbal is a historian by training, committed to the development of education in Pakistan, particularly the furthering of humanistic learning. Ms. Aliya holds a BA and two MA degrees from Harvard University in the US and is in the process of completing her Ph.D. from the same institution in the field of Islamic Intellectual History with a focus on Indo-Muslim Civilizations. She has conducted research at major manuscript archives across India, Pakistan, Europe and the US. At Harvard, Aliya also undertook several pedagogical trainings, taught extensively at Harvard College and won three awards for “Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.”

She currently heads the Liberal Arts Programme at the Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture and is a Visiting Faculty at IBA. Always emanating a confident, elegant and eloquent persona Ms. Aliya Iqbal Naqvi has dabbled in various media fields since the late 1990s, from gracing international runways as model, anchoring Television news in both English and Urdu to freelancing as a presenter / moderator at public and professional events.