She has received multiple awards and addressed the United Nations on her 16th birthday.
Later this month she is due to meet Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.
She remains determined to return to Pakistan one day and enter politics. And she says the Taliban's attempt to silence her has backfired spectacularly.
“When I was shot they thought the people would be silenced, they thought that no one would talk,” she told the BBC in a recent interview.
“I think they might be repenting why they shot Malala.”