Nurul Izzah Anwar is a social policy activist, former three term legislator and public servant. She co-founded Malaysia’s leading multiethnic party, the People’s Justice Party, (KEADILAN) in 1999 and is Vice President. The party now heads the government in Malaysia.

In 2021 she lead a covid adjusted Multidimensional Poverty Index study in her constituency Permatang Pauh.
In 2023, she co-chaired the Secretariat of the Special Advisory Body to the Minister of Finance.
She now heads POLITY, a think tank focused on empowering women and youth in communities.

Nurul Izzah holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from UNITEN Malaysia and a Masters in International Relations in Southeast Asia Studies from the School of Advanced International Studies-Johns Hopkins University.