Dr Helen Pankhurst

Women’s rights activist and author

Dr Helen Pankhurst CBE is a women’s rights activist and advisor to CARE International, previously at WaterAid, Womankind Worldwide and ACORD. She is a Visiting Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University and was Chancellor of the University of Suffolk. The great-granddaughter of Emmeline and granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst, she carries on the legacy through public speaking and convening of Centenary Action and GM4Women2028. Publications include: Deeds Not Words, the Story of Women’s Rights, Then and Now (2018).