Îlham Ehmed (Arabic: إلهام أحمد‎) is a Syrian-Kurdish politician in Rojava in Northern Syria. She is a former co-chairperson of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC),[1][2] the umbrella organisation of secular, democratic, non-Islamist opposition in Syria. She is a senior member of the Democratic Union Party (PYD)[3] and a member of the executive committee of the Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) coalition.[4][2]