Tessa Khan
Founder and Executive Director - Uplift
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An international climate change lawyer and campaigner, Tessa is founder and executive director of Uplift.
Before Uplift, she was co-founder and co-director of the Climate Litigation Network, which supports groundbreaking strategic climate litigation around the world.
Tessa has spent two decades supporting grassroots, regional and international movements for justice and has served as an expert advisor to UN human rights bodies and national governments, while working in Thailand, Egypt, India, the US, the Netherlands and Australia.
Her writing has been published in international media outlets and academic publications, and she has been invited to speak at the United Nations and events convened by the Financial Times, the Economist, and TED.
Tessa is a graduate of the University of Oxford and University of Western Australia.
In 2019, she was named by TIME magazine as one of 15 women leading the fight against climate change.
Tessa is also a recipient of a Climate Breakthrough award, the largest climate action grant for individuals.
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