Sajda Mughal

Sajda Mughal, OBE is best known as being a survivor of the 7 July 2005 London Bombings. She is the director of the JAN Trust, a charity which provides support to vulnerable and marginalised women through empowerment and raising awareness of issues relating to extremism, violence and women's rights.

Mughal is a contributor to various new outlets, including The Independent, The Times, HuffPost, Metro.

She has appeared on several television programmes, including Lorraine, Victoria Derbyshire, and Channel 5.

She is married and has two daughters. She was 22 at the time, and was working as the head of recruitment at an investment bank.

In 2007, following the attack Mughal quit her job and was appointed as the director of the JAN Trust, where she focused on counter-terrorism.

Views As well as working with JAN Trust, Mughal has campaigned towards raising awareness of Islamophobia and its effects on British Muslims, particularly women.

Awards and achievements In 2013 Mughal won the Community Champion Award from the Hope not Hate campaign.

She was named by the Evening Standard as one of London's Top 1000 Most Influential Londoners as a Campaigner in 2014, and subsequently in 2015 for an award in the same category.

She was nominated for the category of Social and Humanitarian in the Asian Women of Achievement Awards in 2014.

In 2013 she was awarded with the International World of Difference Award in recognition of efforts to advance women's empowerment.

She was awarded an OBE in 2015 for services to Community Cohesion and Interfaith Dialogue.