CEO, Global One 2015

Husna Ahmad OBE is the CEO of Global One 2015, a faith-based international NGO focused on women. She is the secretary general of the World Muslim Leadership Forum, an honorary professor in practice at the Computer Science Department of University College London (UCL), and cochair of IXN for Good at UCL. She is also an associate professor at the Department of Arts and Law at the University of Birmingham. Professor Ahmad has been appointed chair of the steering committee of UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Faith for Earth Initiative. She is also a member of the Interfaith Women’s Council of UNEP. She is a key advisor of the Global Muslim Business Forum and a member of the UN Multi-faith Advisory Council’s Interagency Task Force on Religion and Development. Professor Ahmad also sits on the steering committee of the World Bank’s Moral Imperative Initiative. She is currently a board member of Faith for the Climate, Palmers Green Mosque; a member of the Women’s Faith Forum UK; and an executive committee member of Barnet Multi Faith Forum. She is an international speaker, author, and thought leader who focuses particularly on faith, gender, environment, and peacebuilding. She is the global coordinator for the Alliance of NGOs and CSOs for South-South Cooperation, which works in collaboration with the UN office of South-South Cooperation. She was appointed an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the New Year’s Honors list in 2010 for work promoting social justice with disadvantaged communities.