Zakia Abdul Malik [she/her]

AFGHANISTAN | Education
Zakia Abdul Malik graduated from Bibi Hawa Girls High School in Nangarhar, Afghanistan. She earned a full four-year undergraduate scholarship from the U.S. Embassy to study at the American University of Afghanistan in the Spring of 2015. Having excelled in her major, Business Administration, Zakia is now ready for graduation. She has been one of the most active students, participating in numerous social activities. She served as the president of Professional Women Networking Club where she aimed to inspire and motivate students to build productive network. She is an active member of the basketball club.

She earned the competitive, merit-based international scholarship, to represent Afghanistan at G(irls)20 Global Summit 2018 in Argentina, where she found her way to launch her own social initiative to empower economically, girls and women at home. After returning home, she passionately started working on her social initiative impact which is mainly focusing gender equality through economically empowerment of youth and especially women.

In 2019, she was selected to represent Afghanistan at NAM-Youth Summit in Baku, Afghanistan, where she exchanged ideas, visions and perspectives on current challenges with representatives from NAM Member States that they face in ensuring their sustainable progress and how these difficulties could be overcome through concerted and adequate responses of their States. She was tasked to develop a list of recommendations for its subsequent presentation to the Heads of State and Government of the NAM Member States on one of the “three
pillars” (peace and security, human rights and development) of the United Nations at the opening session of the NAM Baku Summit.

Zakia is working to launch her social initiative soon.

This bio is updated as of May 2025.