Safeena Husain is the Founder of Educate Girls, an Indian non-profit working towards empowering communities for girls’ education in some of India’s hardest-to-reach villages. Under her leadership, Educate Girls delivered the world’s first Development Impact Bond in education and became Asia’s first TED Audacious Project, a collaborative funding initiative focusing on scaling solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. In 2023, she became the first Indian woman to be honoured as a WISE Prize laureate for her contributions to girls’ education in rural India.
Safeena is a graduate from London School of Economics. She recently made history. Her organisation, Educate Girls, won the 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Award. This is Asia’s highest honour, often called the Asian Nobel Prize. Educate Girls is the first Indian organization to receive this award.