Fer Ghanaa Ansari is a lawyer working as a Research Associate at the Research Society of International Law, while concurrently serving as a Research Associate at the Center of Excellence for International Law, Institute of Strategic Studies Research and Analysis, National Defence University.

At RSIL, Fer Ghanaa works on numerous projects with the Ministry of Human Rights, the UNODC and the UNDP involving research in human rights law, criminal law, and constitutional law. At NDU, she writes advisory policy papers for the civilian and military leadership on key issues of international law relating to Pakistan.
Before joining RSIL, she served as an intern at the International Committee of the Red Cross where she worked on compiling Pakistan’s State Practice on Customary International Humanitarian Law, after which she interned at Fazleghani Advocates, where she was given the opportunity to draft petitions and appeals for the superior courts.
Other than this, Fer Ghanaa has taught at the US Department of State’s English Access Micro scholarship Program and volunteered as the Editor of an educational development magazine called “The Reformer” by ASCD Pakistan. She has also conducted various community development initiatives including anti-harassment legal awareness and self-defense sessions for women.

Fer Ghanaa completed her BA-LLB from Quaid-i-Azam University and has also completed her Masters in English Literature. During her undergraduate studies, she went to the US on a fully-funded semester exchange through the US State Department’s Global-UGRAD program. She participated in the Ventotene International Seminar on global federalism held in Italy, and in numerous moot court competitions as well.