Zerbanoo Gifford

Author and human rights campaigner Zerbanoo Gifford is the founder of the British charity ‘The ASHA Centre’, for youth empowerment in the fields of sustainable development, interfaith and intercultural dialogue and the arts.

She holds the International Woman of the Year Award 2006 for her humanitarian work, which spans fifty years of grassroots and global activism, as well as the Nehru Centenary Award for championing the rights of women, children and minorities.

A pioneer for Asians in British politics. Zerbanoo has also been London organiser for the homeless charity ‘Shelter’ and director of ‘Anti-Slavery International’.

Her seven books include ‘Thomas Clarkson and the Campaign against Slavery’, ‘Dadabhai Naoroji, Britain’s First Asian MP’, and ‘Secrets of the Worlds Inspirational Women’, highlighting the lives of 300 exceptional women from 60 countries for which she was awarded Britain’s ‘NESTA Fellowship’.

Zerbanoo is on the advisory board of Oxford University’s, India Centre. She is also one of the few women to be inaugurated into the ancient order of the Knights of the Round Table.

Zerbanoo’s biography ‘An Uncensored Life’ is published by Harper Collins.