Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah, Deputy Speaker, National Assembly of Pakistan

Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah has served in Pakistan’s National Assembly for over two decades and currently holds the office of Deputy Speaker. Representing Nawabshah in Sindh, he chairs the Standing Committee on Climate Change and Environment and has been instrumental in advancing Pakistan’s National Climate Change Policy at the federal level. His constituency sits on the Indus floodplain, one of the regions most devastated by the 2022 super floods, and he has consistently used his platform to ensure that the climate crisis facing southern Pakistan is treated as a national legislative priority. He was also part of Pakistan’s broader parliamentary push for the Loss and Damage Fund secured at COP27.