Sahar Ahmed is originally from Lahore, Pakistan and has a PhD in Law from Trinity College Dublin, on the right to freedom of religion within the international human rights legal system and Islamic jurisprudence. Sahar graduated from the University of London in 2010 with an LL.B (Hons) degree and completed her LLM with a focus on human rights law, from SOAS, University of London. She is a member of the Bar of England and Wales and a barrister member of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn and practiced as a commercial and corporate barrister in Lahore for a number of years before moving to Ireland. Since then, Sahar has been actively involved in conversations regarding race and religion and their place within higher education in Ireland.