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Axana Soltan is an American international lawyer, research scholar and an advocate for women’s rights, education, and gender equity. She has been awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Justitia Award from the Palace of Justice, housed within the Supreme Court of Vienna, Austria. Soltan has been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2024, and was named by Forbes “as one of the zealous fighters against the Taliban regime” for her impactful work in women’s rights and education advocacy. 

Axana is currently reading at the University of Oxford as an Eisenhower Global Scholar in public policy, where she also serves as the Chief Senior Advisor to the President of Oxford Union.