Farhana is an internationally recognized lawyer and climate justice activist. She has provided legal and strategy advice to small islands leaders and ministers on UN climate negotiations for 30 years attending nearly every COP/UN climate summit since 1991. She runs the Climate Justice and Just Transition Collaborative which convened some of the world’s largest climate philanthropies to shift power and resources to those on the frontlines of systemic inequalities. She was the Political Coordinator of Extinction Rebellion from 2018-2019 and glued herself to the London Headquarters of Shell to protest against the fossil fuel industry. She was also Director of Climate Reframe from 2022 - 2024 which seeks to amplify the voices of Black and People of Colour in the UK and provide safe spaces for collaboration and wellbeing. She is currently, Director of Impatience Ltd, an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford University, a Senior Advisor to SYSTEMIQ, a FRSA and Visiting Professor, University of the Arts, London, and former Deputy Chair of the Climate Vulnerable Forum Expert Advisory Group. She was voted Number 2 on the 2020 BBC’s Power List with the judges describing her a “powerhouse of climate justice” and is active in numerous community-based initiatives and social justice movements.