Maniza Naqvi (1960 ) was born in Lahore and has lived in Mangla, Tarbela, and Karachi, Pakistan. She has studied at the Lahore American School and Kinnaird College, Lahore. Abroad, she earned degrees at Mount Holyoke College in the United States, and at the Asian Institute of Management in the Philippines. She currently lives in Washington, D.C., where she works on poverty reduction and postconflict reconstruction.