Biography
Ziauddin Yousafzai is a Pakistani educational activist and entrepreneur. He is best known as the father of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai and as co-founder of the Malala Fund, which promotes girls' education worldwide.
Born in 1969 in Shangla, Pakistan, he has worked as a teacher and school founder, advocating for education in the Swat Valley before and after the Taliban insurgency. He appeared as himself in the 2015 documentary He Named Me Malala and published the memoir Let Her Fly in 2018.
