Shandana Gulzar Khan

Khan holds a bachelor's degree in Law from the University of Peshawar.[2] She received the Lady Noon scholarship from the University of Cambridge and studied international trade and international economic laws at the postgraduate level in 2001.[3][1]

Khan has worked with the United Nations Development Program, the International Human Rights Law Group and in the lower courts and High Court of the then North West Frontier Province. She also worked as the Legal Affairs Officer at the Mission and in consultation with senior officers, dealing with the Dispute Settlement Understanding and TRIPS.[2]

Khan was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on a reserved seat for women from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2018 Pakistani general election.[4]

On 27 September 2018, Prime Minister Imran Khan appointed her as Federal Parliamentary Secretary for commerce.[5]

She was elected as the Chairperson of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians, a network of women members of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association's parliament and legislatures, for a three-year term in 2019.[6] The election was held at the sixth triennial conference of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians during the 64th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in Kampala, Uganda.

She is a member of three Standing Committees of the National Assembly including the Standing Committee on Privatization;[7] Planning, Development and Reform;[8] and Industries and Production.[9] She is also a member of the National Assembly's Special Committee on Agricultural Products.[10]