Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah was born in 1915 and educated in Calcutta, India, and London, where she received a PhD at the University of London. She was one of the few Muslim women to take part in the Pakistan Movement and one of the first female members of Pakistan’s Constituent-cum-Legislative Assembly. Begum Ikramullah also served Pakistan as a delegate to various international conferences and as Ambassador to Morocco.