Jemima Khan was born in London in 1974, and studied English Literature at Bristol University. In 1995 she moved to Pakistan, where she lived with her husband and two children for nine years. From there she ran her fashion company and NGO, Jemima Khan Ltd, which employed around a thousand Pakistani women to hand-embroider Western-style clothes. In 2001 she set up and ran a charity to provide aid to Afghan refugees living in Pakistan. She later moved back to the UK to study for an MA in Islamic Societies and Cultures at SOAS, the School of Oriental and African Studies, majoring in Modern Trends in Islam. She now lives in London but has remained involved in Pakistan, raising funds after the 2005 earthquake and setting up the "Free Pakistan" campaign in 2007 to protest against the state of emergency during which her ex-husband was incarcerated.

Jemima now writes regularly for the New Statesman and Vanity Fair and is a contributing editor for British Vogue. Her writing has also appeared in the Sunday Telegraph, Evening Standard, Vanity Fair, Independent and Independent on Sunday.

Jemima is currently an Ambassador to UNICEF UK, a Trustee for the HOPING Foundation's work with UNRWA and for The Afghan Children's Trust, and a patron of the Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism think-tank in the UK.



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