Areeba Hamid worked at senior levels in Greenpeace offices around the world from 2006-2020, campaigning on issues like marine conservation, coal expansion in India, rainforest destruction in Indonesia, and tar sands in Canada and North America. Areeba re-joined Greenpeace from The Sunrise Project, where she led their global finance program.
She was a board member of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants for four years and is now on the international supervisory Board of The Sunrise Project. Born in India, she is the first woman and first person of colour to lead Greenpeace in the UK.
Join Areeba at Summit Photo 2026
Areeba will be speaking at Summit Photo 2026 on Saturday 18 July to the title How Greenpeace creates change.
On a fortuitous day in 1971 a few activists from Vancouver, Canada sailed to Amchitka, Alaska, to protest U.S. nuclear testing – they had a small boat and a mighty weapon – a camera. Not just telling but showing what was happening far away from the public eye created outrage that led to the banning of nuclear testing at sea.
Since then, telling compelling stories using images has remained at the heart of how Greenpeace creates change.
