Sara Wahedi

Sara Wahedi is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Ehtesab, Afghanistan's first civic-technology startup. Ehtesab’s flagship platform, the 'Ehtesab App', launched in March 2020, serving as a nationwide alert system but also as a platform for crowdsourced reports, and capturing human rights infringements across Afghanistan. Ehtesab is presently advancing a feature dedicated to recording 'gender apartheid' instances, aiming to strengthen the recognition of gender apartheid as an actionable offense in international jurisprudence. With a vision for 2024, Wahedi intends to extend the platform's reach to other crisis regions globally.  

Alongside her work as a technologist, Wahedi is an advisor for venerable entities, including the UN, governments, and various NGOs. She provides counsel on the fundamental human right of 'access to information’ and advocates for its protection in global cases. 

Wahedi’s pursuit of the democratization of information in crisis areas has earned her accolades such as TIME Magazine's 'Next Generation Leader', MIT Technology Review's 'Innovators under 35', BBC's 'Top 100 Women', and Forbes '30 Under 30'. In 2023, she was also honored as One Young World's 'Entrepreneur of the Year’.