Professor Anjum Halai is a regional Vice Provost at the Aga Khan University Pakistan. She is responsible for developing and operationalizing strategies to achieve the academic plans and programs and facilitate collaboration among the academic entities and interdisciplinary cross-campus initiatives. Being the senior academic representative for the Provost, she collaborates with key regional stakeholders, including relevant government ministries, and enables AKU to collaborate with other university partners.

Anjum Halai is an experienced educationist who knows about higher education and research in low-income countries. Her research interest is on social justice in education due to marginalisation based on language, gender, conflict, or other forms of exclusion. She also has an enduring interest in researching mathematics education and has led major international research projects in the field.

Dr. Halai was a member of the General Education Advisory Board of the Open Society Foundations New York (2015-2017). She served as an adjunct professor (2011-2016) at the University of Alberta, Canada, and was a research fellow at the University of Sussex.