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FINAL <strong>POWER</strong> 100 <strong>BOOK</strong> 2.59 TUE_Layout 1 14/02/2017 13:55 Page 35<br />
Kiswer Falkner Baroness<br />
kishwer falkner, Baroness<br />
falkner of margravine is a British<br />
liberal democrat politician and<br />
life peer. She is liberal<br />
democrat Spokesperson for the<br />
ministry of Justice in the house<br />
of lords. prior to her<br />
entitlement as a life peer with<br />
the title Baroness falkner of<br />
margravine, falkner worked in a<br />
variety of jobs for the liberal<br />
democrats in the house of<br />
commons and the party<br />
headquarters including as<br />
director of international affairs<br />
and director of policy. in<br />
february 2008 she was appointed<br />
as the inaugural chancellor of<br />
the University of<br />
Nafis Sadik<br />
dr. nafis Sadik served as<br />
executive director of the United<br />
nations population fund<br />
(Unfpa), with the rank of<br />
Under-Secretary-General, from<br />
1987 through 2000. on her<br />
appointment in 1987, she became<br />
the first woman to head one of<br />
the United nations’ major<br />
voluntarily-funded programmes.<br />
in June 1990, the Secretary-<br />
General of the United nations<br />
appointed dr. Sadik Secretary-<br />
General of the international<br />
conference on population and<br />
development (icpd), 1994. dr.<br />
Sadik’s work has brought her<br />
many international awards and<br />
honours.<br />
Huma Abedin<br />
huma mahmood abedin (born<br />
1976) is a deputy chief of staff<br />
and aide to US Secretary of State<br />
hillary rodham clinton. abedin<br />
began working as an intern for<br />
the white house in 1996 and was<br />
assigned to hillary rodham<br />
clinton. She currently works for<br />
clinton, now Secretary of State,<br />
at the State department and is<br />
known as hillary’s shadow. in<br />
2010, abedin was included in<br />
time’s “40 under 40”, a list of a<br />
“new generation of civic leaders”<br />
and “rising stars of american<br />
politics.”<br />
Fehmida Mirza<br />
dr. fehmida mirza is the current<br />
and 18th Speaker of the national<br />
assembly, a lower house of<br />
parliament of State of pakistan.<br />
She is the first woman to hold the<br />
office to date, and is widely<br />
regarded as one of the highest<br />
ranking female politicians in the<br />
history of pakistan. fehmida<br />
mirza hails from the influential<br />
Sindhi family, and currently<br />
representing the Badin<br />
constituency since 1997 and has<br />
continued to be a parliamentarian<br />
since then. She runs several<br />
welfare projects in her<br />
constituency, one of the poorest<br />
districts of pakistan.<br />
Zamir Akram<br />
Ambassador<br />
as pakistan’s ambassador and<br />
permanent representative to the<br />
Un and other international<br />
organizations in Geneva since<br />
2008, Zamir akram has been<br />
playing a leading role in areas<br />
such as disarmament, human<br />
rights, refugees, humanitarian<br />
affairs, trade and development,<br />
intellectual property, labour and<br />
health among others. he was<br />
instrumental in promoting<br />
consensus on contentious<br />
resolutions regarding religious<br />
intolerance, freedom of religion<br />
and freedom of expression.<br />
Moazzam Malik<br />
DIFID<br />
moazzam malik is director for<br />
western asia and Stabilisation at<br />
the Uk department for<br />
international development<br />
(dfid). he oversees the Uk<br />
Government’s development<br />
partnerships in afghanistan,<br />
pakistan, tajikistan, kyrgyzstan<br />
and stabilisation assistance to<br />
address conflict and insecurity in<br />
developing countries. moazzam<br />
leads a division comprising over<br />
300 staff and a budget of almost<br />
£500m spread across five<br />
departments.<br />
Michael Nazir Ali<br />
Bishop michael nazir-ali was the<br />
106th Bishop of rochester, for 15<br />
years, until 1 September 2009.<br />
he is originally from asia and<br />
was the first non-white diocesan<br />
Bishop in the church of england.<br />
he was appointed in 1994.<br />
Before that he was the General<br />
Secretary of cmS from 1989-<br />
1994 and prior to holding this<br />
position was Bishop of raiwind in<br />
pakistan. he holds both British<br />
and pakistani citizenship and from<br />
1999 was a member of the house<br />
of lords where he was active in a<br />
number of areas of national and<br />
international concern.<br />
Hina Rabbani Khar<br />
hina rabbani khar is the first<br />
female and the youngest person<br />
to ever head pakistani’s ministry<br />
of foreign affairs since July<br />
2011. She graduated with a B.Sc.<br />
in economics from lahore<br />
University of management<br />
Sciences in 1999 and received her<br />
m Sc (hon) in Business<br />
management from the University<br />
of massachusetts amherst in<br />
2001. She won the elections in<br />
2002 from the platform of pml-<br />
Q and was the parliamentary<br />
Secretary for economic affairs<br />
and Statistics.<br />
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