Imad has eight years of experience working with Samaj, Sarkar, and Bazaar to enable last-mile change at the grassroots. He has worked at the intersection of government advisory, public policy, and implementation with select governments, prominent public and private institutions, and grassroots organisations. He has played a vital role in shaping program design to enable public system strengthening, citizen engagement, and last-mile access at scale.

He was a Ministry of Home Affairs/Tata Trust Fellow in the Left Wing Extremism-affected district in Bihar, enabling Human Development Index improvement and localising SDG at the district and sub-district levels for over 3 million people. He enabled one of the first localisations of SDGs at the panchayat level. Apart from this, he enabled the Samaj (Citizen Engagement) strategy for the eGovernment Foundation to allow the penetration of Digital Public Infrastructure to the last mile across India. Moreover, he anchored the Impact Tool Box for an international organisation "Ashoka", enabling impact measurement, digital community creation, and resource access for small organisations, Ashoka Fellows and youth organisations. He holds a double master's degree; he is a Master's in Social Work with a focus on Social policy and communities from the University of Delhi & MPhil in Development Studies as a Commonwealth Scholar from the University of Cambridge, focusing on international development and politics of development.