Senator Sherry Rehman is Chair of the Climate and Environment Caucus of the Senate of Pakistan, former Federal Minister of Climate Change, first woman Opposition Leader in Senate of Pakistan, Vice President of Pakistan Peoples Pakistan.
Moderated by James H. Stock, Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability, Harvard University; Director of the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, Harvard University; the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and a member of the faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School
Open to HUID holders only
About Senator Sherry Rehman
*Chair of the Climate and Environment Caucus of the Senate of Pakistan.
*Former Federal Minister for Climate Change.
*Ranked among 100 most influential people of 2023 by TIME.
* Named among 25 most influential women of 2022 by Financial Times.
*Former Vice President United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA).
*Founding Chair of Jinnah Institute.
*Founder of The Centigrade collaborative.
*Member of the Global Futures Council at the World Economic Forum.
*A fourth term Parliamentarian, diplomat, journalist & civil society activist.
Senator Sherry Rehman is Chair of the Climate and Environment Caucus of the Senate of Pakistan, former Federal Minister of Climate Change, first woman Opposition Leader in Senate of Pakistan, Vice President of Pakistan Peoples Pakistan. She is the Founding Chair of the Jinnah Institute, a fourth-term Parliamentarian, diplomat, journalist, and civil society activist who has received Pakistan’s highest civil award, the Nishan-e-Imtiaz. Rehman was ranked among 100 most influential people of 2023 by TIME and named among 25 most influential women of 2022 by Financial Times. Sherry Rehman was featured in Forbes ‘50 Over 50: Asia 2023’. She was identified as one of the Top Global Thinkers of 2011 by Foreign Policy magazine, she was cover-titled by Newsweek Pakistan as “Pakistan’s Most Important Woman”. She was also Chair of Senate’s Foreign Affairs committee and Chair of Pakistan Red Crescent. She is member of the Global Futures Council at the World Economic Forum.
Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting and held additional portfolios of Health, Women Development, and Culture.
Rehman has received several awards including the title of Democracy’s Hero; The Freedom Award for her work for media independence; the International Peace Award for Democrats; and the Jeanne Kirkpatrick Award for Women.
As former editor of the “Herald” newsmagazine based in Pakistan, Rehman also an award-winning journalist with 20 years of experience in both the broadcast and print media. Her latest book, ‘Womansplaining” navigates modernity, politics and activism in Pakistan through the prism of 22 women activists, leaders and academics speaking in their own voices. She has also co-authored the book ‘Five Hundred Years of The Kashmiri Shawl’ with Naheed Jafri, which was published in 2006 and was awarded the prestigious R. L. Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award from the Textile Society of America.
This event is co-sponsored by the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability and the Center for International Development