Nobel Prize laureate and social activist Malala Yousafzai will be speaking shortly at the World Economic Forum in a session titled 'An Insight, An Idea with Malala Yousafzai' which will focus on how education and empowerment can help to realize our human and economic potential towards a shared future.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner will talk about her journey of standing up for education as a basic right for every girl. 

The WEF is currently being held in Davos with celebrities, politicians, journalists, businessmen among others attending it. 

The Pakistani education activist came to prominence when a Taliban gunman shot her in the head in 2012 as she was leaving school in Pakistan's Swat Valley, north-west of the country's capital Islamabad. She was targeted for her campaign against efforts by the Taliban to deny women education.

At 19, Yousafzai is the youngest Messenger of Peace, the highest honour given by the United Nations for an initial period of two years. She was also the youngest person to win the Nobel peace prize in 2014 when she was 17.