Atiya Amjad, Founder-Director of Daira Centre for Arts and Culture, is an art writer and curator. She has written several articles and exhibition catalogues. In 1998, she was invited by the Alliance Francaise de Hyderabad to curate shows and promote Indo-French cultural relationship in Hyderabad. In 2001, she established the DAIRA Centre for Arts and Culture. She also worked with the renowned painter, MF Husain at the Cinema Ghar, Hyderabad. She worked for a brief while at the Palo Alto Museum of Art, San Francisco, USA. In 2010, along with her sister, Atika Amjad, she established The Children’s Fine Art Gallery.

Speaker @ HLF 2023, 2021