Senator Sherry Rehman is a Member of the Senate of Pakistan, Parliamentary Leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in the Senate, Vice-President of the PPP and founding Chair and President of the Jinnah Institute, a non-partisan public policy think tank. She served as Federal Minister for Climate Change (2022–2023), leading Pakistan’s delegation at the COP27 climate talks. She has also been Pakistan’s first woman Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Ambassador to the United States (2011–2013) and Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting (2008–2009).  

A former editor of the Herald newsmagazine, she has 20 years of experience in journalism. Senator Rehman has moved landmark legislation on women’s empowerment, honour killings, domestic violence, freedom of information and media freedom. She also co-chairs track-two dialogues with India and Afghanistan. She chaired the Lady Dufferin Foundation Trust and is a founding member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. She co-authored 'Five Hundred Years of the Kashmiri Shawl', winner of the R. L. Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award. Her honours include the Nishan-i-Imtiaz and a place on the TIME 100 list in 2023. She holds a BA (Honours) from Smith College, Massachusetts, and studied art history and politics at the University of Sussex, UK.