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Sherry Rehman is a senior Pakistani politician, Parliamentarian and a member of Pakistan Peoples Party. She is a graduate in art history and political science from Sussex University. She has been the editor for Hearld for 10 years and has also hosted a show on current affairs.

Sherry Rehman was elected as the member of National Assembly on the list of reserved seats for women. Before that she was an MNA and the central Information secretary. She was sworn in as Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting in March 2008 but resigned from the post in March 2009.

Sherry Rehman’s latest book “The Kashmiri Shawl: From Jamawar to Paisley”, that she co-authored with Ms Naheed Jafri, was published in 2006. The book has been selected for R.L Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award for 2006, in the US. Sherry Rehman is also the first Pakistani to be recognized with an award for independent journalism by the UK House of Lords in its Muslim World Awards Ceremony in the year 2002.