Helen Pankhurst

Dr Helen Pankhurst CBE is an international development and women’s rights activist and writer. She is also the great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst, who were leaders in the British suffragette movement.

Helen is a senior advisor at CARE International UK, a Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University and the first Chancellor of the University of Suffolk. Helen was involved in the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics and the 2015 film Suffragette. Her book, Deeds Not Words, was published in 2018.