Ms. Asia Ashraf, from Pakistan, holds a master’s degree in applied psychology (2003) from Punjab University, and she completed a one-year fellowship in Substance Abuse, Education, Treatment, Policy and Prevention from Virginia Commonwealth University, USA (2015-2016). Ms. Ashraf is a national trainer on the Universal Treatment Curriculum for the UNODC and the Colombo Plan Drug Advisory Program, and she is an internationally certified addiction professional (ICAP-II) from GCCE, Sri Lanka. She is currently serving as the director of rehabilitation and as consultant psychologist at Greenfield Hospital of Psychiatry. In this position, Ms. Ashraf conducts counseling, relapse prevention training, capacity-building of addiction professionals and orientation sessions for volunteers and mental health trainees. Ms. Ashraf is a core team member of the Gender Working Group, World Federation Against Drugs (WFAD) which works to address illicit drug use among women, gender-based violence and its relationship with illicit drug use and access to health care, treatment and recovery services for women. She also launched the first Recovery Club in Islamabad, Pakistan; an open, free, safe space for persons in recovery. Ms. Ashraf is member of VNGOC Asia-Pacific working group and recently was elected secretary to the Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs (VNGOC) board.