Ayisha Siddiqa

Ayisha Siddiqa is a Pakistani-American scholar, environmental and human rights defender, and researcher on rights of future generations. She was appointed as the Youth Climate Advisor to United Nations Secretary General from March 2023 until March 2025, and has been actively involved in Climate Justice advocacy since 2019 when she went on to found her university’s branch of Extinction Rebellion that led a strike involving around 300,000 youth in New York City, and then co-founded Fossil Free University and Polluters Out, a global youth coalition for climate action. She is the recipient of multiple climate justice and human rights advocacy honours including TIME Woman of the Year 2023, The Independent Climate 100 List for two consecutive years 2024 and 2025, and Business Insider’s Climate Action 30 of 2023.