Malika Shah leads the CSA Centre’s monitoring and evaluation programme. She began her career as an Independent Domestic Violence Advocate at Southall Black Sisters. Before joining the CSA Centre, she was an Evidence and Evaluation Adviser to Operation Soteria at the College of Policing, where she managed a programme of academic research aimed at improving police investigations of rape and other sexual offences. Malika has worked in the Metropolitan Police Service’s Strategic Insight Unit, where she managed a portfolio of research and evaluation projects, including work on hotspot policing, stop and search, strip search and police misconduct.

Malika has worked internationally as Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Lead for the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy at the Czech NGO People in Need, based in Prague. In this role, she established the department’s monitoring, evaluation and learning systems and led evaluations of programmes supporting human rights defenders, independent media and civil society organisations in authoritarian regimes and transitional democracies across Latin America, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and North Africa.