FAWN Team

  • Co-Founder

    Shabnam Nasimi co-founded FAWN in 2024.

    She previously worked as a Senior Policy Advisor to the UK Minister for Refugees and Minister for Afghan Resettlement. She is a writer, commentator and a human rights advocate.

    Shabnam was also the founder and Executive Director of the Conservative Friends of Afghanistan.

  • Co-Founder

    Sarah Sands is a British journalist and author. She previously edited the London Evening Standard and Today on BBC Radio 4 from 2017 to 2020.

    Sarah is the Deputy Chair of the British Council and former Chair of the Gender Equality Advisory Council for G7 (2021).