# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/liz-mcdaid
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:05:49.161Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/liz-mcdaid"
name: "Liz McDaid"
slug: "liz-mcdaid"
description: "Liz McDaid is a South African activist who is the \"Eco-Justice Lead\" for the Southern African Faith Communities' Environment Institute (SAFCEI). Along with Makoma Lekalakala, she was awarded the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize for the African region for their work on using the courts to stop a Russian-South African nuclear deal in 2017. In 2018 McDaid and Lekalakala received the Nick Steele Memorial Award for their work in winning a crucial court case to halt plans by the South African government to proceed with a national nuclear build programme.\nMcDaid is currently Head of Energy at Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse."
tagline: "South African environmentalist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
birthDate: "1965"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38
  momentum:             9.791666666666666
  historical:           9.201512000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ліз МакДейд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Liz McDaid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CE%B9%CE%B6_%CE%9C%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%9D%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BD%CF%84"
    title: "Λιζ ΜακΝταιντ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_McDaid"
    title: "Liz McDaid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_McDaid"
    title: "Liz McDaid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_McDaid"
    title: "Liz McDaid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_McDaid"
    title: "Liz McDaid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_McDaid"
    title: "Liz McDaid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_McDaid"
    title: "Liz McDaid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_McDaid"
    title: "Liz McDaid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_McDaid"
    title: "Liz McDaid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52146030"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump