Syed Awais Qadir Shah, Speaker, Sindh Assembly

Syed Awais Qadir Shah presides over the assembly of the province that bore the worst of Pakistan’s 2022 super floods, and he brings both an engineer’s technical grounding and a legislator’s determination to the climate challenge. Before becoming Speaker of the Sindh Assembly, he served as the province’s Minister for Transport and Mass Transit, giving him direct experience of the infrastructure pressures that climate adaptation places on the government. He hosted the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Asia Regional Conference in 2026, where he put climate change at the centre of the agenda alongside democratic resilience and poverty. His focus on flood management, water systems and coastal vulnerability reflects the scale of what Sindh faces as a low lying delta province threatened by riverine flooding and rising seas.