Keynote Speaker
Ideas that challenge, inspire and move people to act.
Sultana Tafadar KC is an international speaker whose work spans leadership, resilience, decision-making, inclusion, human rights and institutional change. A multi-award-winning King’s Counsel, she brings a distinctive perspective shaped by more than two decades of experience navigating high-stakes environments, breaking barriers and leading change.
WHERE PERSPECTIVE MEETS IMPACT
Sultana brings more than two decades of experience across legal practice, public advocacy and institutional leadership to the stage.
Her talks combine legal insight, lived experience and a global perspective, examining how power is exercised, how institutions make difficult decisions, how barriers are broken and how lasting change is achieved.
ON STAGE
Sultana delivers keynotes, in-conversation events and panel appearances for organisations, institutions and audiences around the world.
Her style is direct, engaging and thought-provoking, combining authority with warmth and bringing a global perspective to ideas that resonate across sectors, cultures and borders.
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Women’s Leadership & Breaking Barriers
Explores the intersectional barriers women face and strategies to build resilience, authority, and influence.
Signature Themes
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Law, Justice & Power
Examines the tension between human rights and civil liberties on the one hand, and counter-terrorism and national security on the other.
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Culture & Inclusion in Elite Professions & Institutions
Explores the realities of representation and how to move towards genuine transformation.
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Strategic Litigation & Systemic Change
Demonstrates how landmark cases can shift institutions, helping audiences understand the power of law as a driver of social change.
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Navigating Identity & Faith in Leadership
Shares lessons on leading authentically while balancing identity and faith, inspiring audiences to turn barriers into influence.
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Girls’ Rights, Justice Reform, and Public Advocacy
Highlights global campaigns for justice and equality, showing audiences how advocacy translates into systemic and lasting impact.
Recent speaking engagements
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Speaker Event: Sultana Tafadar KC, Cambridge Union and Cambridge Law Society, 2025
‘In conversation with Sultana Tafadar KC’, International Women’s Day, Edelman, 2025
Legally empowered: Girls Leading Change, Fieldfisher LLP, 2025
‘In conversation with Sultana Tafadar KC’, International Women’s Day, Queens College London, 2025
‘Girls Human Rights Festival 2025’, hosted five-day festival at the Supreme Court, Hogan Lovells LLP, Irwin Mitchell LLP, No5 Chambers 2025
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Annabel’s International Women’s Day 2024.
‘Q&A at Iftar Event’, Farrer & Co, 2024.
‘Girls Human Rights Festival 2024’, hosted five day festival at the Supreme Court, House of Lords, Fieldfisher LLP, Hogan Lovells LLP, Old Square Chambers, 2024
‘Inspiring Inclusion: Women in Law’, Support Though Court, at Baker Mckenzie LLP, 2024
Keynote Speech, The New College Law Society Dinner, Oxford University, Mayfair, London, 2024
‘A Talk with Sultana Tafadar KC’, Cambridge University Law Society, 2024
‘Law, Justice & Human Rights’, University of Cambridge, 2024
‘Introducing Sultana Tafadar KC, Counter Terrorism Laws’, Mitre Lectures, Trinity School, Croydon, 2024
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Keynote Speech, Allen & Overy LLP, London 2023
‘Afternoon Tea with Sultana Tafadar KC’, Oxford Bar Society, University of Oxford, 2023.
Keynote Speech, Hogan Lovells International LLP, London, 2023
‘Religious Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace’, Keynote Speech, Schroders, London, 2023
‘Women in Leadership’ Series, Ernest & Young LLP, London, 2022
5th International Women and Justice Summit, Kadem, Istanbul, Turkey, 2022.
Keynote Speech, Clifford Chance London, 2022
‘Breaking Barriers’, Race Equality Committee, Women in Criminal Law, 2022
‘In Conversation with Sultana Tafadar KC’, Bird & Bird LLP & Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, London, 2022
‘Inspirational Women’ Series, Oxford Women in Business, University of Oxford, 2022.
‘Free Speech in the Digital Age’, New College Essay Society, University of Oxford, 2022
‘Russia/ Ukraine Conflict and the Rule of Law’, JUSTICE Student Conference 2022
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‘The Measures and Impact of the Counter Terrorism and Security Act (2021)’, Crime & Human Rights, JUSTICE Human Rights Conference 2021.
‘The Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill’, Briefing, Influencing Corridors of Power, SOAS, November 2020.
‘The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) Bill’, Briefing, Influencing Corridors of Power, SOAS, November 2020.
‘The Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill’, Chair of MLAG Webinar, November 2020.
‘The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) Bill’, Chair of webinar, Nov 2020.
Visible Justice: Embodied Activism Symposium, ‘How the black/ brown injured body is represented in contemporary media and art, and legal frameworks’, LCC, University of the Arts London, May 2019.
LEAP Annual Conferences, Fair Trials International: Netherlands (Feb 2015), Greece (March 2017), Bulgaria (Feb 2018); 2020-22 (online).
‘Charades’, video collaboration between David Birkin and Reprieve on the Third Directive, 2018 https://www.davidbirkin.net/charade/
‘Strategic litigation workshop with focus on counter-terrorism’, Sciences Po Paris, School of International Affairs & Open Society Justice Initiative, Paris, 2017.
‘Raising the Bar’ with Rob Rinder, Topic: Terrorism laws, BBC Radio 5 Live, 2016.
‘Race Equality: “Removing Barriers”, Home Office, The Network’s 15th Annual General Meeting, London, March 2015.
Designed & delivered Advocacy training for NGOs, Oxfam, London, 2014.
Advocacy training programme, Amnesty International, London, 2014.
Advocacy training programme, Women for Women International, London, 2014.
‘Privacy in Public Life: The Case of Ken Livingstone’, NLJ, Jan 2007.