Politics
Malala Yousafzai
Education campaigner, youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Born 1997
Photo: Adam Chitayat · CC BY-SA 4.0
«One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.»
Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban at fifteen for campaigning for girls' education in Pakistan, survived, and became the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Her fund now works on girls' schooling in eight countries.
Key achievements
- Nobel Peace Prize, 2014, at seventeen — the youngest ever
- Founded Malala Fund for girls' education in eight countries
Universities
Oxford, England
Read philosophy, politics and economics at Lady Margaret Hall from 2017, graduating in 2020.
Facts
- She began writing an anonymous diary for the BBC Urdu service at eleven, describing life under Taliban rule in the Swat valley.
- She received the Nobel Peace Prize at seventeen and sat exams at her school in Birmingham shortly afterwards.
- She chose the same Oxford degree, philosophy politics and economics, that Benazir Bhutto had studied decades earlier.
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