Meet Malala Yousafzai’s new husband, Asser Malik: nobody knew the Nobel Peace Prize winner was dating the theatre-loving Pakistan Cricket Board manager … until their wedding
- Malik met the women’s rights activist and international bestselling author of I Am Malala at Oxford University in 2018, with the pair quickly bonding over sports
- The Pakistan Cricket Board manager graduated from Lahore University of Management Sciences and co-founded amateur cricket league Last Man Stands (LMS)
Congratulations are in order for Malala Yousafzai and her husband Asser Malik!
On November 9, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner in history shared on social media that she tied the knot in a beautiful ceremony in Birmingham “to be partners for life”.
Now 24 years old, Malala is known for being a global girls’ education advocate and an inspiration to many young women after surviving being shot by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan at age 15 in 2012. She is also the international bestselling author of I Am Malala. And the lucky man who captured her heart has definitely piqued everyone’s curiosity.
So what do we know about the dashing groom?
He has a degree in economics and political science
While Malala graduated from Oxford University in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, politics and economics, her husband earned a similar degree at Pakistan’s Lahore University of Management Sciences in 2012. They may not have been university sweethearts, but the activist revealed to Vogue that they met in the summer of 2018, while “Asser was visiting friends at Oxford”.
He’s a general manager at the Pakistan Cricket Board
