Team & Contact

Country Director
felix.kolbitz(at)fes.de

Felix Kolbitz is currently the Country Director for FES in Pakistan. Before he headed the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Bangladesh office in Dhaka from April 2021 until January 2024. Previously, he worked for three years at the Federal Foreign Office in the Department for Higher Education, Research and Science, where he was responsible for academic relations with the Middle East, Central and South Asia as well as thematic areas such as access to education for refugees and academic freedom. For the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), he worked in Afghanistan and Yemen. He began his international career as part of his community service, which took him to rural Bangladesh for a year. He studied Asian Studies at the University of Bonn, specializing in West and South Asia and religious studies. At the University of St Andrews in Scotland, he earned a postgraduate degree in Middle Eastern and Central Asian Security Studies. Study visits and language courses took him to Poland, Egypt, India and Morocco.

Programme Advisor
abdullah.dayo(at)fes.de

Abdullah Dayo, is a strong advocate of social justice and democracy, currently working as Program Advisor at Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Pakistan office. In this context, he is responsible for Social Justice, Economy, Governance and Democracy projects. He has studied political economy development and foreign policy analysis at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt, Germany. Previously, he has worked with UNICEF, Oxfam, World Vision International and on different projects led by European Commission in Pakistan

Programme Advisor
sidra.saeed(at)fes.de

Sidra Saeed has done M.Phil from Quaid-i-Azam University. Since 2011, she has been working as Programme Advisor for youth, gender and democratic inclusion and dealt in various projects aiming at strengthening democracy through media reforms, empowering local governance system, promoting peace and tolerance among youth, civic education and engagement and supremacy of the constitution of Pakistan. Apart from that, she is the Gender Coordinator at Asia regional level for FES Pakistan office. Additionally, she has been the in-charge of the internships at office.

Programme Advisor
hamayoun.khan(at)fes.de

Mr. Hamayoun Khan is working as Programme Advisor  since 2020. Previously has served at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) from 2005- 2010 as a Research fellow at China Study Centre and East Asia. He has also served with the Australian High Commission Islamabad as Media and Political officer and has taught at the National Defense University, Islamabad, Pakistan for 10 years. He holds Masters and MPhil degrees in Defense and Strategic Studies from the Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, and is a graduate of the ‘Executive Course’ from Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, USA(2008).

Head of Finance and Accounts
ainnie.zahid(at)fes.de

Manager Finance and Programme Administration
sadia.farooq(at)fes.de

Manager Logistics and Office Administration
shoukat.ali(at)fes.de

IT, Communication & Administration Assistant
faisal.rashid(at)fes.de

Office Assistant and Driver

Office Helper

Office Helper and Cleaner