Farid Panjwani

Professor Farid Panjwani is the Dean of the Institute for Educational Development at Aga Khan University. He is also a faculty member at the Institute of Education, University College London, where he previously worked full-time as the founding director of a research center before moving to Pakistan in 2021. Professor Panjwani holds a DPhil in Philosophy of Education from the University of Oxford. He has published widely in the areas of philosophy of education, citizenship, teacher education, imagination, religious education, hermeneutics, and Islamic Studies. His current research focuses on the lived experiences of students from minority religious backgrounds in Pakistan and the relationship between economics and academic freedom. He has worked on several educational projects around the world and has served as a consultant to numerous research projects and organizations, including the International Baccalaureate, the Adyan Foundation in Lebanon, the Islamic Religious Council in Singapore, the Aga Khan Academies, and the Government of Punjab, Pakistan. In 2016, Farid was appointed to the Commission on Religious Education in the UK, which was tasked with developing policy recommendations for the future of religious education in the country. He is also extensively involved in voluntary work, serving both at the grassroots level and on the governing bodies of various organizations.