Qaisra Shahraz is a British-Pakistani novelist, scriptwriter, college inspector, teacher trainer, education consultant and freelance journalist.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is a former director of Gatehouse Books, publishing books written by students for Skills for Life classes.
She has hosted many workshops and training sessions on "Quality in Education" in Pakistan and India through the British Council.
Her work is mostly focused on the diversity of mankind exploring aspects of racial, gender, and cultural divides.
In 2016 she won the Lifetime Achiever Award at the National Diversity Awards held at Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral.