CEO
Pima Imam
CEO
the STEPs
Pima Imam is the current Chief Executive Officer of the
STEPS.org and a Founding member of the University for Social Transformation
through Education (USTE).
Ms. Imam has over three decades of experience in social
development, including national skill development through vocational training,
promoting women empowerment and bringing hundreds of rural women under the
financial inclusion net.
From 2000 to 2017, Ms. Imam worked as an educator of underprivileged
communities in United Kingdom. Her career in education has been focused on
empowering immigrant communities, ethnic minorities and refugees in the UK
through education and cultural training and thereby helping them to achieve
social integration and reach their maximum potential in income generating
careers. She spent seventeen years as an instructor and Head of School at South
and City College, Birmingham, one of the largest Further Education colleges in
the UK responsible for developing literacy, numeracy and employability skills
in areas of multiple deprivation including Handsworth, Lozells, Nechells and
Small Heath. Enriched by this experience, Ms Pima conceptualized the University
for Social Transformation through Education (USTE), a STEPs project in
Bangladesh.