Sara Khan

Sara Khan is one of the UK’s leading Muslim female voices on countering Islamist extremism and was appointed as Lead Commissioner for Countering Extremism in 2018. A long-standing, award-winning human rights campaigner, in 2008, she co-founded Inspire, a non-governmental women’s rights and counter-extremism organisation, of which she is director. The winner of a Marie Claire Future Shapers Award in 2016 and selected as one of BBC Woman’s Hour’s Top 10 Influencers in 2015, she has written for numerous publications, including The Guardian, Daily Telegraph and New York Times, and has been interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, CNN’s Amanpour, Sky News and Channel 4 News, among others.