Evoca Foundation was established in 2018 to support grassroots initiatives advancing gender equity, education and planetary health.

Under Naza’s leadership, Evoca has supported projects from expanding access to education in Afghanistan to assisting survivors of gender-based violence in Nigeria and genocide in Rwanda. In 2021, Naza launched Evoca Pictures to provide advocates with the resources to amplify unheard voices and drive visible impact through creative storytelling.

Naza played a central role in creating and developing the Qatar Economic Forum with the State of Qatar and Bloomberg Media.

Now in its sixth year, the Forum is built around the macroeconomics, geopolitics and capital markets that inform economic development, regionally and globally.

As an advisor to leaders and investors, Naza’s work also spans global initiatives including UNICEF’s education programmes and GIGA, the effort to connect every young person to the internet by 2030.

Born in Tehran and raised in the United Kingdom, Naza holds a Master’s in International Relations from Queen Mary University of London. She is currently a Gender Equality Philanthropy Fellow at the LSE Marshall Institute, and speaks fluent English, Farsi and Portuguese.