Past President of WZO Zerbanoo is a human rights campaigner, author and founder of The ASHA Centre. https://www.ashacentre.org

Holder of the International Woman of the Year and the Nehru centenary award for her humanitarian work, which spans over fifty years of grassroots and global activism.

Pioneer for Asian Women in British politics, in 1982 she made history by being elected a Councillor in Harrow and was the first BAME woman to stand for parliament. Zerbanoo chaired the Commission ‘Looking into ethnic minority involvement in British Life’ and was a member of the committee advising the British Home Secretary.

Director of Anti-Slavery International, she was given the Freedom of the City of Lincoln, Nebraska, for combating modern slavery and later received the International Splendour Award in Hollywood, for her lifetime achievements in the field of equality.

To celebrate the 90th Anniversary of American Suffrage, she was honoured by the Sewall-Belmont Museum in Washington DC commemorating key women who have advanced women’s rights.

In 2022 at the World Zoroastrian Congress, she was presented with the Global Entrepreneur Award. There she launched https://www.zasha.info as a celebration of the diversity and talents of Zoroastrian women worldwide.

Author of seven books, her latest book is ‘Z to A of Zoroastrianism: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living’ which was distributed to the delegates at the last World Zoroastrian Congress in New York.

Zerbanoo’s biography ‘An Uncensored Life’ is published Harper Collins.