Muhammad Hassan Dajana is our inspiring alumnus of the Global UGRAD Pakistan program. Under this exchange program, he studied for one semester (Fall 2018) at the University of Evansville, Indiana. He gave half a dozen presentations about Pakistan with more than 500 individuals in attendance. He was also the best delegate at a MUN conference in the U.S.

With his learnings from the UGRAD program, Hassan initiated the Plastic Free Pakistan initiative aiming to get Pakistan rid of single-use plastic through awareness, advocacy, and policy actions. He won the prestigious ASG grant and started the initiative “Letters from the West: Why Exchanges Matter” to foster cultural growth between the people of Pakistan and the U.S.

Hassan’s team remained the second runner-up in the Y-Climathon conducted by the Pakistan Red Crescent Society and German Red Cross for their initiative “Our Green Masjids’ which aimed at building environmental safety, security, and sustainability inside religious seminaries in Islamabad. He was awarded the PUAN Emerging Leader Award in 2019.From 2020-2022, he worked as a fellow at ‘Teach For Pakistan’, aiming to solve educational inequity in Pakistan. He was the Academic Olympiad Committee member and host of the STEM Olmypiad’22, an AEIF project through which 4200 students from 29 schools across Islamabad benefited from STEM education and resources.

He was elected as the Curator of the Global Shapers Community, an initiative of the World Economic Forum in 2022. His team won the Uplink Global Shapers Climate Reality Challenge 2022 for their project “Green Blue Rawalpindi”. The only team from Pakistan to win the global challenge. It is a four-pronged climate intervention in Rawalpindi and Islamabad.

Muhammad Hassan Dajana is currently working as a Program Manager at Amal Academy facilitating the growth of young adults aiming to make a change in the world and themselves.