Seema Kazi has been educated in India, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. She has worked with NGOs and women’s groups in India during which time she was part of an international research project on women and laws in the Muslim world. She subsequently worked as an independent researcher and writer on Muslim women and human rights with Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP), Washington D.C. and the Minority Rights Group (MRG) London. She has a PhD from the Gender Institute, London School of Economics.