Zamzam Ibrahim

Zamzam Ibrahim is a student politician who was the President of the UK National Union of Students (NUS) from 2019 to 2020.^[1] She is also the President and a founding trustee of Students Organising for Sustainability.^[2] She succeeded Shakira Martin. She was formerly the NUS Vice President of Society & Citizenship.^[3] This followed her term as Salford Students' Union President 2017-2018 and Vice-President of Business and Law 2015–2016.^[4] Before she was a full-time officer at NUS, she served on the National Executive Committee for two years.^[5] She is now the Vice-President of the European students union.

Early life and career

Zamzam was born in Sweden in 1994 and is Somali, but moved to Greater Manchester at an early age.^[6] She is fluent in Swedish, Somali and English.^{[citation needed]} Before becoming an elected officer at NUS, Zamzam worked as a fundraiser for Penny Appeal, an interpreter for Pearl Linguistics Ltd, a radio presenter at ALLFM 96.9 and a project worker at Bolton Solidarity Community Association.^{[citation needed]} She has been a vocal advocate against FGM (Female Genital Mutilation).^{[citation needed]} She went to the University of Salford and gained a first class degree in Accounting & Finance.^{[citation needed]} During her time at University she was President of the Somali society and was in multiple other societies such as TedX and Business.^{[citation needed]} She has volunteered for organisations such as Human Appeal.^{[citation needed]}

Presidency of NUS

Ibrahim took office on 1 July 2019.^[7] During her term as President she has headed up multiple campaigns including the drive to get young people registered to vote in the 2019 General Election,^[8] the campaign for a National Education Service^[9] and leading the Teach the Future Campaign.^[10]

She was succeeded by Larissa Kennedy in July 2020.^[11]

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