Adam Matan

Adam Matan OBE (Somali Adan Mataan) (Arabic: آدم متان) is a Somali-British civil society leader and social activist.

[1] He is the former Director of the Anti-Tribalism Movement, a non-profit organisation established in 2010 to combat tribalism and inequality amongst the British-Somali community.

[16][17][18] Matan has been invited to speak at a number of events with think-tanks such as Chatham House,[19][20] Global Youth Summit,[21] Ministry of Women, Human Rights and Development Conference[22][23] and many others.

[29][30] Matan was featured in the Queen's New Year's Honours List 2019 for 'services to the Somali community in the U.K and wider- UK-Somalia relations'.

[31][32][33][34] and presented with the OBE medal at an investiture overseen by the HRH Prince William, Duke of Cambridge on 28 March 2019.