Indian student leader Riddi Viswanathan, a graduate from the University of Manchester, has been awarded Global International Education Award 2020 for her contributions towards diverse student communities. She has been particularly recognised for addressing hate crime in UK universities. Riddi shares the award with Thomson Ch'ng from Curtin University, Australia. She has held leadership positions in the UK as the former diversity officer and the First full-time International Students’ Officer at the University of Manchester Students’ Union. She has also been elected as the Overseas Representative 2019-20 for the National Union of Students (NUS) UK, where she has been the first Indian to represent over 400,000 overseas students from over 192 countries in the UK.
