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Ovais Sultan Khan (‎Urdu: اُویس سلطان خان, Hindi: उवेस सुल्तान खान‎, born November 1989) is a human rights activist, thinker, columnist and international political analyst. He has more than 10 years of experience in working with marginalised sections in India. As an activist and negotiator, he has carved a niche for himself in the civil society and wider community of social movements. He has also engaged with issues of peace building, justice, conflict mitigation, alternatives, knowledge, democratic governance, culture, traditions and religion (particularly Islam) in different capacities.

Presently, he is one of the trustees of the ‘ANHAD’ (Act Now for Harmony and Democracy), which is a leading Indian socio-cultural organisation established by activists, artists and intellectuals in March 2003, as a response to 2002 anti-Muslim Gujarat genocide. It works in the field of democracy, secularism, human rights, peace education and communal harmony.

He is in the advisory boards of 'You Can Foundation' and 'Adhyaay Foundation' (Liberal Arts Education).

He is one of the editors of Muslims of India, which inspired from Humans of New York. At a time when Indian Muslims are often dehumanized and rendered as a single, threatening monolithic stereotype, this Facebook page wants to celebrate and document the many different people who make up the community, who cannot be bound by an simple description, and are just living their lives as best as they can.

He is core group member of Vikalp Sangam (Alternative Confluence) which is a platform for networking of groups and individuals working on alternatives to the currently dominant model of development and governance, in various spheres of life.

He is also among the founding members of People's Alliance for Democracy and Secularism, and still serving in the core group.

He has a Bachelors and Masters degree in Social Work from University of Delhi. He also studied International Human Rights, Humanitarian and Refugee Laws from Indian Academy of International Law and Diplomacy. In May 2012, he joined ‘South Asian Dialogues on Ecological Democracy (SADED)’ as Programme Secretary, at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), a world renowned think tank based in Delhi, which he left in June 2015.