Umair Asif

About Umair Asif

Umair is a PhD candidate at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada, specializing in Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) and Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE). He is also the founder of the Kafka Welfare Organization in Pakistan and brings over ten years of experience working on diverse social and development issues across Pakistan, South Korea, and internationally. Umair has taught Master’s and Bachelor’s level courses in sports science at GC University Lahore, Pakistan, where he also supervised graduate research projects. He has served as a board member of the Asia-Pacific UNESCO Youth and Sport Task Force, contributing to several high-level international platforms, including the United Nations High-Level Meetings on Sport and PVE (2020).

ranaumairasif@gmail.com