Asad Rehman

Asad Rehman is the Executive Director of the radical anti-poverty and social justice organization War on Want. Asad is a leading climate justice activist whose work over the last 20 years has helped to reframe the climate crisis as a crisis of neoliberal capitalism, inequality, and racism. Asad helps to co-coordinate the Global Green New Deal Project and was one of the founders of the COP26 Coalition. Over the last 35 years, he has worked with many social movements both globally and nationally including the anti-racist movement, the alter-globalization movement, and the anti-war movement.