Nurul Izzah Anwar is a social policy activist, former legislator and public servant, with a professional career spanning 25 years. She co-founded Malaysia’s leading multiethnic party, the People’s Justice Party, (KEADILAN) in 1999 and holds the position of Vice President. The party now heads the government in Malaysia.

She served as a Member of Parliament for three terms and was a member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement. She later headed the Technical and Vocational Empowerment Committee under the Ministry of Education in 2018.

In 2021, together with economist Fatimah Kari, she published a pioneering Covid-adjusted Multidimensional Poverty Index report, sampled from her constituency of Permatang Pauh.
Recently, she co-chaired the Secretariat of the Special Advisory Body to the Minister of Finance, headed by Tan Sri Hassan Marican, advisor to Petronas, Malaysia’s national oil company.

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.