Khan is the owner of the Darjeeling Express restaurant in London as well as being one of the world’s most prominent female chefs and a UN World Food Programme advocate. She is passionate about female employment championing women from diverse backgrounds through her restaurant.
In 2024 Asma was featured in TIME magazine’s Top 100 most influential people. Khan has published a number of cookery books and in 2019 was the first British chef to feature in Netflix’s Emmy-nominated Chef’s Table.
Khan commented: “It is an honour to collaborate with the Stop Hunger Foundation, an organisation whose mission deeply resonates with me. The fight against food insecurity has been a cause close to my heart for as long as I can remember.
“I look forward to working alongside the Foundation, its partners, and the dedicated team at Sodexo to support causes that matter profoundly to me. Together, I hope we can make significant strides in this invaluable work throughout 2025.”
The Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Khan will provide support and inspiration across projects that are tackling the underlying causes of food insecurity, such as skills development, resource accessibility and community empowerment.
Thanks to the financial support of Sodexo, 100% of the donations made to Stop Hunger go directly to financing activities and sustainable solutions for disadvantaged communities to exit food insecurity.
Patrick Forbes, chair of trustees for the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation, added: “Asma’s passion for empowering women, using her well-respected position in the global culinary community to effect real change, makes her the perfect choice to be patron of the Stop Hunger Foundation.
“We know that improving the social situation of women plays a significant role in the fight against food insecurity and this has been a long-term guiding principle of the charity.
“Through Asma’s patronage we hope to inspire more of our colleagues and partners to participate in the wide range of volunteering opportunities we make available and I am confident that by working with Asma the Foundation can have its most successful year yet in the UK and Ireland.”