With over 13 years in social development, civic technology, policy advocacy, and crisis response across three continents, Javeria leverages systems thinking, strategic foresight, and behavioral insights to bridge grassroots and policy-making. She is currently the Gender and Crisis Specialist at the Crisis Bureau at UNDP HQ, developing the GRCA package and piloting it in Syria.
As a curious strategist, she specializes in designing and implementing context-sensitive interventions aligned with local needs and sensitivities. Her work focuses on driving impactful outcomes through cross-sectoral collaboration and innovative solutions. Passionate about transforming complex problems into actionable milestones, she excels in delivering strategic results.

Javeria's focus is on defining, implementing and iterating on disruptive localized solutions challenging the status-quo by ensuring community participation, capacity building, and responsive leadership. Javeria has been a part of the team (put together by the Law Commission of Pakistan) behind a first-of-its-kind policy to neutralize the growing urban housing crisis of the country. She has worked on a number of projects for the Govt. of Pakistan that include a framework for stakeholder inclusiveness in urban planning, a scalable smart-tech low-cost housing module, an open-government operational model that allows shared ownership between the government and low-income community. Javeria also worked with the countrys' Minister of Planning to establish an urban-unit that works as a national-level think tank to cater for challenges and opportunities w.r.t. the 4IR.

Javeria teaches design, social entrepreneurship, and ethnographic research (undergrad). Her research has been presented/published at conferences/journals including Volume, IJAR, SEANES, Interdisciplinary.net, IAPS-CSBE, and IGRS. Javeria is a big advocate for animal rights, inclusive design and human geography. She was a curator of Global Shapers Islamabad Hub'15 and she spoke at AMNC'17