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Chef and humanitarian advocate Asma Khan is an award-winning restaurateur, best-selling cookbook author, and the founder of London’s famed Darjeeling Express restaurant.
The UN World Food Programme’s Chef Advocate, Asma has become one of the UK’s most prominent culinary figures. Her restaurant is best known for her all-female kitchen team and her commitment to social change, while Asma’s cookbook Ammu was named ‘Times’ Book of the Year’. She was the first British chef to be profiled on Netflix’s Emmy-nominated Chef’s Table and the first chef to be featured on Vogue’s list of 25 most influential women.
An unstoppable force in the hospitality industry and beyond, Asma is a distinguished presence on the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board and an Honorary Fellow at Queen’s College, Oxford University. She holds a PhD in British Constitutional Law from King’s College London where she is also a Fellow and an Honorary Doctorate from SOAS University.
