Ahmad Al-Rashid is a Syrian campaigner. He was born in Aleppo, Syria. He studied English literature before fleeing the country due to the conflict to the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Ahmad worked there as a volunteer teaching English in the Syrian refugee camps and later on joined UNICEF to work for both the Syrian refugee response and the Iraqi displaced people response after Mosul fell for ISIS in 2014. Since his arrival in the UK mid-2015, Ahmad has been working with various groups and organizations advocating for refugee rights and child refugees. In 2017, Ahmad graduated from SOAS - University of London. He holds an MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development.