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Founding Director
ButtonAmina is Founding Director of CineKhan Limited. She has 17 years of development policy research experience and brings cross-sectoral insights to issues of development assistance, foreign policy, SDGs, leaving no one behind, and cultural diplomacy. Her thematic priorities have included education equity and socioeconomic inclusion. Amina has proven excellence in project leadership to ensure timely and quality delivery of outputs. She has an MSc in Foreign Service, with a specialisation in International Development from Georgetown University and is a Fulbright Scholar. She is fluent in English, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, and French.
Amina also has extensive experience researching stories, locations, and characters for films and is a trained method actor from Anupam Kher's prestigious acting school in India, 'An Actor Prepares'. Her work on human psychology and human behaviour has led to content development for an upcoming play on mental health called 'Brillly Vs Bipolar'. She has also analysed the political economy of Brexit and events leading up to it until the present day and is co-writing a film on the subject from the perspective of migrants. She is also developing content for a new webseries, 'Selfish Parents', which explores family dynamics and the impacts of growing up in selfish environments on children and young people, alongside a film 'Appy Love' based on the dating experiences of contemporary Asian women.
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Research Director
ButtonFatimah Khan is a socioeconomic consultant with 16 years of experience in leading multidonor funded international development and cultural preservation projects in south and central Asia. Her areas of expertise include technical assistance to sub-national government
institutions for service delivery in developing countries.
Since 2020, she is a consultant for the World Bank on the US$ 150 million Punjab Urban Land Systems Enhancement project in Pakistan. Between 2007 and 2020, she worked for the Aga Khan Trust for Culture’s Historic Cities Programme where she led primary research and contributed to studies in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kenya, and Malaysia to inform the planning and design of integrated cultural heritage preservation and historic urban conservation projects.
She has excellent
comparative analytical skills with a Master’s in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an MS in Geographic Information Systems from
Pennsylvania State University.
Senior Researcher
Dr Tanvi Bhatkal has more than 10 years of experience in international development and public policy research. She is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Development
Studies, where she focuses on the sanitation challenge in small towns in Asia and Africa. She
has a PhD in Geography (University of Cambridge) on the everyday politics of urban
belonging at the intersection of gendered and minority rights in India. Her research takes an
intersectional approach to analyse political economy, cultural politics, and policy issues on
notions of urban citizenship and infrastructure. She has conducted both primary and
secondary research in India, Nepal and Kenya, and remote research in Thailand, Ghana,
Ethiopia, and Pakistan.
Tanvi specialises in analysing international content from streaming platforms such as Netflix and Amazon prime. Studying films and tv series that have had compelling, relatable characters and plotlines are her main areas of focus. She also has an interest in analysing light-hearted, intelligently crafted comedies.
Some of her favourite shows include Brooklyn 99, the Office, Suits and MadMen.
Her analysis will help you design content that will be popular among college students and young professionals.
