Inspiring presence. Impactful voice. Trusted perspective.

Sultana Tafadar KC is a highly sought-after speaker, panelist, and moderator with a powerful presence and an ability to connect across audiences — from law students to senior executives, global institutions to grassroots communities. Her voice is informed by lived experience, professional excellence, and a deep commitment to justice.

Drawing on her journey as the UK’s first hijab-wearing King’s Counsel at the criminal bar, Sultana speaks with clarity and conviction on issues of justice, leadership, human rights, and identity. She is regularly invited to deliver keynote addresses, lead public conversations, and moderate high-level discussions at major events in the UK and internationally.

Her message resonates: thoughtful, incisive, and grounded in reality — not rhetoric. Whether addressing senior professionals in law and business or mentoring the next generation of leaders, she brings intellectual depth and emotional resonance to every stage.

Speaking Topics & Areas of Focus

  • Women’s leadership and visibility in public life

  • Human rights, counterterrorism law, and civil liberties

  • Diversity, equity, and inclusion in elite professions

  • Strategic litigation and systemic change

  • Navigating identity and faith in leadership

  • Girls’ rights, justice reform, and public advocacy

Formats & Engagements

  • Keynote Speeches – For conferences, corporate events, academic forums, and global summits

  • Moderated Discussions – Chairing or facilitating dynamic conversations with diverse or high-profile panels

  • Fireside Chats – In-depth, conversational speaking formats tailored for client, legal, or community audiences

  • Panel Participation – Sharing insights as an expert contributor in law, justice, leadership, and policy

  • Student & Academic Events – Addressing the next generation of legal professionals and leaders

Recent Engagements Include:

2025

  • 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

    2024

  • ‘Introducing Sultana Tafadar KC, Counter Terrorism Laws’, Mitre Lectures, Trinity School, Croydon, 2024

  • 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

    2023-22

  • 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

    Earlier

  • ‘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.