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President
  
Mamnoon Hussain

Nationality
  
Pakistani

Parents
  
Nisar Memon

Prime Minister
  
Nawaz Sharif

Relations
  
Nisar Memon (father)

Full Name
  
Marvi Memon

Name
  
Marvi Memon

Ex-spouse
  
Ali Jameel

Citizenship
  
Pakistan

Role
  
Pakistani Politician


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Constituency
  
Reserved seats for women

Born
  
21 July 1972 (age 51) Karachi, Sindh Province, Pakistan (
1972-07-21
)

Education
  
University of Karachi, London School of Economics and Political Science

Similar People
  
Kashmala Tariq, Nisar Memon, Khawaja Saad Rafique, Ahsan Iqbal, Maryam Nawaz

Profiles


Political party
  
Pakistan Muslim League

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Marvi Memon (Urdu: ماروی میمن‎; born c. 1972) is a Pakistani politician who serves as the Chairperson of the Benazir Income Support Programme and a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since 2013 as a member of Pakistan Muslim League (N). Previously, she served as a member of the National Assembly from 2008 to 2012 as a member of Pakistan Muslim League (Q).

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Early life and education

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Memon was born in July 1972 in Karachi, Pakistan to Nisar Memon.

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Memon studied in Karachi, Kuwait City and Paris, She then enrolled in the London School of Economics from where she completed her B.Sc. (Econ.) Honors in International Relations in 1993.

Professional career

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Prior to joining politics, Memon worked as an intern at DAWN, Newsline, Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, International Union for Conservation of Nature and the United States embassy in Islamabad.

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After graduating from the London School of Economics, Memon worked as a banker at Citibank where she specialized in Marketing and Quality Management and later with Pakistan Television Corporation, before moving to launch Trakker, one of Pakistan’s largest vehicle tracking service provider which established her as an entrepreneur. Memon joined the Inter-Services Public Relations in 2004 and served in its media monitoring and analysis wing until 2007. However, a dispute with the then Director General of the ISPR Major-General Shaukat Sultan saw her departing from ISPR. She also worked as advisor to President of Pakistan on Media Management and on Investments.

Political career

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Memon joined Pakistan Muslim League (Q) in 2007, and was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan in Pakistani general election, 2008 on reserved seat for women from Punjab. Memon resigned from the National Assembly seat in 2011 and left the party after the PML-Q joined the Peoples Party led-coalition government.

She is author of the memoir My Parliamentary Diaries, an account of everyday life of Memon as a parliamentarian which she launched in 2012.

According to the Free and Fair Election Network, she was the amongst the parliamentarians in the 13th National Assembly of Pakistan who introduced the third highest number of private members' bill.

Memon joined PML(N) in 2012, after months long rumours that she might join Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.

In Pakistani general election, 2013, she contested the NA-237 (Thatta-I) for National Assembly, however lost the polls. However, she was elected as the member of the National Assembly for the second time on a reserved seat for women from Sindh. Memon initially served as Prime minister’s youth wing coordinator before she was appointed Chairperson of Benazir Income Support Programme with status of Minister of State in February 2015.

In April 2017, she was appointed as the member of the Advisory Council on Gender and Development at World Bank. In August 2017, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi made her the Minister of State again for being the chairperson of Benazir Income Support Progra­mme.

Awards and honours

In March 2017, Memon received the Speaker's Democracy Award by the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.

In July 2017, she was conferred the French National Order of Merit by the French Ambassador to Pakistan in Islamabad.

References

Marvi Memon Wikipedia