Gulalai Ismail is a women’s rights expert and activist with over 13 years of experience in the field of gender equality and advocacy. She is founder of Aware Girls, the first young women and girls’ led organisation in Pakistan. She is currently working on a number of projects including the “Advocacy for the Right of Secondary Education of All Girls” project in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province with the support of the Malala Fund. Prior to this, she was Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at RISE, and a Fundraising Officer at Coalition on the Rights and Responsibilities of Youth. Gulalai is the recipient of the 2016 Chirac Peace Prize as well as the 2014 International Humanist Award and was among the 100 Leading Global Thinkers according to Foreign Policy Magazine. She holds a PhD in Biotechnology from Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad-Pakistan.

Participant in: August 2017 Fellowship: Peacebuilding and Women’s Meaningful Participation in Peacebuilding Processes