Description: Sharifah manages training and research at the Lien Centre. She coordinates the Centre’s publication, the Social Space - a collection of articles by academics and practitioners in the social entrepreneurship and non-profit sector. In her line of work, she is particularly interested in the documentation of innovative projects that are led by social organizations in Asia and is in a quest to determine if different historical and cultural contexts will determine different trajectories or models for these endeavors in a different part of the world.
She was previously a research officer in a nonprofit organization for two years, covering issues of social progress and modernity.