Zamzam Ibrahim

Zamzam Ibrahim is a student politician who was the President of the UK National Union of Students from 2019 to 2020. She is also the President and a founding trustee of Students Organising for Sustainability. She succeeded Shakira Martin. She was formerly the NUS Vice President of Society & Citizenship. This followed her term as Salford Students' Union President 2017-2018 and Vice-President of Business and Law 2015–2016. Before she was a full-time officer at NUS, she served on the National Executive Committee for two years. She was the Vice-President of the European students union in 2021.

Early life and career

Zamzam was born in Sweden in 1994 and is Somali, but moved to Greater Manchester at an early age.

Ibrahim took office on 1 July 2019. During her term as President she has headed up multiple campaigns including the drive to get young people registered to vote in the 2019 General Election, the campaign for a National Education Service and leading the Teach the Future Campaign.
She was succeeded by Larissa Kennedy in July 2020.