CIFOR–ICRAF publishes over 750 publications every year on agroforestry, forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy and much more – in multiple languages.

CIFOR–ICRAF addresses local challenges and opportunities while providing solutions to global problems for forests, landscapes, people and the planet.

We deliver actionable evidence and solutions to transform how land is used and how food is produced: conserving and restoring ecosystems, responding to the global climate, malnutrition, biodiversity and desertification crises. In short, improving people’s lives.

Board of Trustees

Bushra Naz Malik

Trustee
Bushra Naz Malik is a renowned business and governance expert who serves as a member and current chair of the Independent Advisory Oversight Committee of the governing board of the UNHCR, member of Oversight Committee of UNAIDS and member of Board and Chair of Audit and Risk Management Committee of Aquaculture Stewardship Council, registered charity in UK and Netherlands promoting sustainable aquaculture standards. Previously she also served as Chair of Oversight Committee of International Labour Organization (ILO) and was chair of oversight committee at UNAIDS. She is also a director of MHM Consulting, a management service provider firm focusing on policy work in Pakistan. She remained as a member of Competition Commission of Pakistan, which is a quasi-judicial institution for promoting competitiveness and fair trade from 2019-2022. Between 2010-2013, she was a director and chairperson of the Audit Committee at the Lahore Stock Exchange Ltd in Pakistan. She also served as Group Finance Director and member of the Board of Directors of Kohinoor Maple Leaf Group, Lahore, a consortium of publicly listed firms headquartered in Pakistan, from 2007 to 2010 and Group CFO with Nafees Group having businesses in Pakistan, USA and Europe from 1995-2006. Ms. Malik was a member of the CGIAR System Management Board (SMB) in 2016-2017, chairing its Audit and Risk Committee 2016-2018, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation since 2016 and Trading Corporation of Pakistan since 2018. She is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan and a CA/CPA from Chartered Professional Accountants, Ontario, Canada. Ms. Malik is an MBA graduate of Kellogg Business School in the United States and the Schulich Business School, Canada. She also dual graduation one in Arts (Economics and Political Science) and the other in law from the Punjab College and advanced management program certification from the Harvard Business School. She is committed to the cause of women and provides consultancy services to a local NGO dubbed ‘All Mothers Educated Now’ based in Pakistan. In 2012 she served as a member of the Commonwealth Business Women, Pakistan Steering Group and Chair of Campaign Committee, Tran Nhan Tong Academy, Boston, USA. She is the winner of “2020 Life Time Achievement Award” from Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan.